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Movie Review posted Thu May 03, 2007: 11:28 AM by Kai 10 Subtle Movie Cliches General Update posted Fri April 27, 2007: 7:01 PM by Kai Betting on Relationship Longevity General Update posted Fri April 20, 2007: 11:28 PM by Kai Worst Writers in Hollywood: Marianne & Cormac Wibberley
Marianne Wibberly's writing credits have a darker past than a Somalian warlord. Its a rare occasion we can sift through the skid marks of someone's career and come across such an offensive pile of cinema, stacked high with offal and ichor, a festering bacterial infection growing fatter on its own filth. The screenplays she has penned are by far some of the worst offenders to decency and movie going good taste. Whats worse, she is not alone in these dark endeavors but, part of a malignant duo much like Pol Pot and Son Sen. Her husband "Cormac" Wibberly is party to these unholy works, whereby as close as I can figure they drink paint from toilet and vomit it onto partially burned bibles, or as they may call it "writing." Its understandable such foul work is needed to be done as a team, because if one retard takes a shit, the other is there to catch it with a box and Fed-Ex it to the studio. There are nine films I'd like to go over, three of them haven't come out, but the apocalypse hasn't happened yet either and I hear its supposed to be just as bad. 6th Day
A festival of tired action cliches, meet a weak moral message about cloning. Adding two Arnolds' to the film gave them an excuse to clone the one hour of hackneyed material they started with, into two, thereby keeping the effect of being twice as boring. The villains in this film behave so stupidly I feared that at any time one of them might jam a kitchen knife into a wall socket like a toddler, but each time they had an opportunity one of them would get distracted by regurgitating a line of bland listless dialog. Robert fucking Duvall made an appearance which came off stale and emotionless, and we don't need to look over his credentials and wonder if he's losing it, the signs point clearly to garbage writing. Someone lent me this dvd, and they never got it back as I had to burn it to recover some of my dignity; God damn you 6th day, you killed Robert Duvall. National Treasure
A conspiracy theorists wet dream. Conspiracy theory is the amateur approach to understanding history, and this certainly qualifies as an amateur approach at story construction. There are so many "thinking out loud" moments in this film it views like a tutorial for wiping yourself. Wipe up while several thousand years of history are reduced to gross misstatement of fact, wipe down as the characters narrate things while they do them, wipe back up again as the plucky but naive side kick once again has to have the motives of the forefathers, and the logic in which puzzles are being solved explained to him, repeat wiping. The film asks a lot of you by watching it, the leaps in logic are so vast it can clear buildings in a single unnecessary monologue, where they show only a single guard patrolling near the declaration of independence, 200 year old gun powder, in an exposed arctic ice sheet gratuitously exploding, and whole branches of law enforcement appearing only when necessary to further the shallow lifeless plot. I've heard people try and compare this film to Indiana Jones, which is like trying to reason out that a shiatsu massage and an unwanted broken glass enema feel the same (very cleansing). Shaggy Dog
Supposedly this is a children's movie. If I had kids, I hope I would be considered an unfit parent if I subjected my offspring to this. Anything that Tim Allen appears naked in isn't something that should be considered "family," convicted felons exposing themselves on camera isn't exactly a gray area. Even if I was trying to show this to children I'm not even sure what age its targeted at, most kids are smart enough to detect that Tim Allen is predictable and over the hill, even a six year old might stumble over the masterfully constructed, Dickensian plot point that "A 300 year old bhuddist dog, has magical venom prompts lycanthropy in a has-been comedian from detroit." Here we are shown that flat, unimaginative action movie writing can be applied to flat unimaginative children's movie writing. I-Spy
Unoriginal screenplays are bad enough, but the Wibberleys have also pursued the most egregious dark holy grail of our time: "TV show adapted to Film." Say it out loud to yourself, take a moment to bask in how perverted and sickening this term is. Its one of the ultimate verbosity's in Hollywood telling us "We have no ideas, lets ruin a show that people may have liked by milking money out of them with loose name recognition, oh my god this glass enema is great." More ho-hum action scenes and quid pro quo story telling which gives as little credit to the audience as possible while they over explain their own motives on the fly, and sluggishly move from one plot point to another in the most obvious ways possible. Bad Boys II
Our gruesome twosome was in charge of the screenplay for 2003's loudest most expensive abortion ever performed. Their luke warm approach to finding excuses for people to shoot at and chase each other translates brilliantly, into something that allowed Michael "I hate the world" Bay to give us piles of slow-mo head shots, corpses being run over on the highway, shanty town inhabitants being made even more homeless, and a good size serving of racism. There were enough excuses to stretch this disaster to two and a half hours, which would be better spent trying to inhale poisonous flies so they may lay eggs in your lungs. In the efforts to see all the movies I tear apart here, I pirated this film; After seeing it I believed in some way my hard drive was tainted and ended up tearing it from the innards of my computer and throwing it off the golden gate bridge. Charlies Angels: Full Throttle
Brainless pop-culture drivel that continues the ill conceived "TV to film" adaptation legacy. The ankle deep plot burden's itself with even fewer story relevant obstacles here than in any other of the Wibberely's attempts. From bad joke, to tits and ass sequence, back to bad joke, to poorly utilized celebrity cameo, to bad joke, to character loudly explaining next plot point, to bad joke, to tits and ass sequence, to character loudly re-iterating plot point, to bad joke, to tits and ass and so on until they run the credits and then you find a confessional to vomit into. Here's a quote from Walter Chaw's review "What the picture represents, in a very real way, is the death of cinema, swallowed whole by the same instinct that drives television: strobe cuts, shallow titillation, barely subsumed fetishism, gleeful stupidity..." We can't blame the special-needs writing duo for all the ills in this film, I place a good portion of blame on its director "McG," who is one of the most smarmy and talentless smug jackasses of our time. He is sending us further spiraling into ADHD, buzz marketing, and ill founded beleif that Bernie Mac is talented. McG is to directing what a bear trap is to your testicles. We all get the trend by now, these people can't write for shit, they have no concept of character motivation, development or tension, which they attempt to cover up with atrociously unimaginative action sequences. Sadly they have three more films in the oven, to me that's like Hollywood was raped and were now expecting triplets because of it. National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (2007 - pre-production)
Plot Summary: Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Cage) looks to discover the truth behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by uncovering the mystery within the 18 pages missing from Lincoln's diary.
If you like re-heated conspiracy theory as much as I do, you will gladly put your head under the tire of a moving 18 wheeler before seeing this. I Dream of Genie (2008 - announced)
Plot Summary: A remake from the classic 60s sitcom, astronaut Major Anthony Nelson discovers a mysterious bottle containing...
What the fuck did we do to deserve this? Everyone everywhere is going to be assaulted with the media campaign for this massive turd. They just couldn't keep away from doing yet another TV adaptation that will make us question if we really loved the original TV shows, or Jesus at all. Jimmy Fallon is supposedly attached to this, and let me be the first to congratulate him on reaching obscurity and obsolescence so quickly after leaving SNL. G-Force (2008 - announced)
Plot Summary: Animal commandos are dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the world.
Wow. I want to believe that these people can't exist, that Marianne and Cormac Wibberley is the modern day "Alan Smithee" used as a pseudonym to take credit for projects that would have gotten their true progenitors lynched. The sad truth is that if these idiots didn't write this drivel they would find some other functionally retarded with a heart beat and pay him in Skittles to hammer story board something. But at the same time you have to take responsibility for your own actions, and be able to take a stand with your work and say NO to writing G-force or the movie version of Gilligan's Island. The Wibberleys are some of the only people to have worked with Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, and McG, truly this has to be a sign of the coming apocalypse. Satan will grow a new head in the ninth circle of hell upon the frozen lake, and in the new hideous head will chew upon the Wibberleys continually skinning their faces with his razor sharp teeth only to grow back. I pray each day you die screaming Marianne, in a car accident to hasten your delivery to the dark lord and receive this lenient punishment. |

