Broken Flowers
by Josh Staiger
I saw the movie Broken Flowers this past week when Renee came to town.
Let's be clear. Normally I'm a big fan of artsy movies, but this movie blows.
The movie features Bill Murray playing a rich, retired computer professional. With quotes like, "I was into computers and girls. And you?", what could go wrong?
I'll tell you what can go wrong. Fully half of the movie consists of the main character sitting with a blank expression, doing nothing. Oh, scratch that, sometimes he's driving in his car with a blank expression, doing nothing. You'd think I'm exaggerating, but sadly no.
Looking around the blogosphere, it seems that a lot of older male computer professionals really enjoyed this movie.
Perhaps this is a corrolary to the principle that Steve Martin SNL skits and Jay Leno become wildly hilarious if you were born prior to 1965. Maybe I'm just too young to appreciate boredom.
What the fuck is this 88%? Rotten Tomatoes, you disappoint me.