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August 03, 2003
Ghost Ship
for all of you that are laughing at me right now for watching this movie (ha - i say that as if i am delusional enough to think that people read this), shut up. i did not rent it because i thought it was going to be an inspired piece of cinema. i rented for one reason and one reason alone - karl urban.
for those of you that missed my glowing review of lord of the rings - the two towers, you are probably unaware of my .. um .. deep admiration for the acting abilities of mr urban. ok - i'll get real. he's pretty. i rented ghost ship because karl urban is pretty. get over it.
i was afraid it was going to be scary. it was not scary. so if you are looking for a scary movie, this is not it. and for me to say a movie is not scary, it's pretty tame. how tame? lets just say that i had nightmares after harry potter. that's right. harry potter. shut up.
and karl urban's character lived until almost the end, so that was good, because if he had been killed off in the beginning i would have been rather upset.
but i'm kind of torn on the storyline. it was a ghost story (duh), but it was a stretch even for a ghost story. and it left it open-ended (one of my main problems with scary movies). i don't want to recommend it, because i don't want to be responsible for people wasting their time, but if you have nothing else to rent, go for it. i will give it that it was intriguing. when you found out the deal with what was going on, it was kind of like "aaaaaah - now it all makes sense!" plus. karl urban is pretty.
Posted by Terri at August 3, 2003 11:39 AM