Sunday was date night for Ezzat and me as we handed baby Oliver over to the safe hands (but impatient) hands of my mother and went to town to watch a movie IN THE CINEMA! *gasp*
Being HUGE Johnny Depp fans (yes, both of us are huge fans, with Ezzat even mentioning once that he'd leave me for Johnny if he would have him, I said likewise), we would get excited every time a JD movie was out. Unfortunately, we missed the latest Pirates instalment back in May due to our hesitation at leaving baby at home while we were out. The trailer for Rum Diary was pretty cool and it looked interesting enough. Well, guess what -- all the minutely interesting and cool bits were in the trailer.
The movie started with an awesome song - "Volare" by Dean Martin, one of my favourites. Next scene, cut to Johnny waking up in his thrashed up hotel room in Puerto Rico after a boozy night. His eyes are bloodshot and his hair tousled. The movie was set in 1960, a time when the fashion was to die for, men wore cool hats, and it seemed like the awesomest thing in the world to have a cigarette hanging from your mouth. I was totally looking forward to the rest of the movie based on what I was already seeing on the screen. Cut to half an hour later, I decided that this was NOT a good movie. And further still, about an hour and a half later (an hour and a half TOO long), I felt that I had gotten nothing out of the movie. There was not much of a storyline, no climax, none of those moments that make you go "wow!", and Johnny Depp actually looked his age in it! (He's 49, by the way). Disappointment to the max. However, would I say it was a waste of money? Honestly, I have a pre-disposed bias already and if it had been any other actor other than JD, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr, Sean Penn, and John Cusack in it, I would shout out loud "Hell yeah! A sad waste of money!). But no, because it was Johnny Depp, I see it as a kind of "fan fee". Terrible or not, it is the price to pay for being a fan.
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