The Crimson Rivers, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, & The Ring Two

The Crimson Rivers is basically a French terrible serial killer movie. Or maybe it's a terrible French serial killer, there's really not much difference. About the only enjoyment I got out of it was that the DVD played the dubbed English and the English subtitles at the same time, and the subtitles didn't match the dubbing on some numerical issues that don't seem to have any relevance to anything. Plus, the idioms were different. Who did that, and why did I bother to see this?

Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow was a tremendous waste of money. It occasionally looked very good, but no actors were good in it. None. Waste of Bai Ling too, since she spent most of her screen time with most of her face covered. The use of Laurence Olivier's archive footage didn't make any sense either. As technically proficient as the movie was, it was pretty darn clear that Kerry Conran has no business directing a movie.

The Ring Two is terrible. The first one at least was somewhat effective, even if not as good as the original, which, in itself, wasn't anything too special, but this one doesn't make any sense at all. It had a couple of somewhat remotely scary scenes, but most of the "scares" were just blah. Blah all around. I just hope there isn't a third, so I don't have to feel like I should see that one as well. Damn. Why couldn't I have watched at least one non-bad movie? Probably to balance out the last couple of very good movies I saw. Damn regression to the mean.