http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/great_bits_in_mediocre_movies_number_4_i Judged by any rational scale of criticism, Running Scared (Paul Walker, not Billy Crystal) is a mess. An extremely energetic, occasionally visually inspired mess, to be sure, but, nonetheless, this designer stubbly Tarantinoid crime saga is largely, as my colleague Lindy West once aptly put it, “a shiny, stylized, exploding pile of suck.” But. Approximately an hour in, there’s a sequence where a little boy on the run stumbles into a clean-cut couple’s apartment, and things get … weird. Unsettlingly, rather brilliantly fairy tale weird. So queasily weird, honestly, that it temporarily vaults the picture into that rarified zone where... Copyright 2008 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:32:46 -0800 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:20:51 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Is that Juliet from Lost? Man, she's good at being creepy.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/great_bits_in_mediocre_movies_number_4_i#c784895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/great_bits_in_mediocre_movies_number_4_i#c784895 Arts Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:41:31 -0800 Thats it? Thanks for wasting my time.

]]> Rotten666 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/great_bits_in_mediocre_movies_number_4_i#c784949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/great_bits_in_mediocre_movies_number_4_i#c784949 Arts Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:20:51 -0800