Short Circuit
Hate me for growing up. I remember enjoying this movie to some extent when I was a kid. I even was surprised how many lines felt familiar when I just recently watched it again. But also upon watching it again I found the movie stupid and the experience painful. There's something so strange about some of these classic mainstream comedies that somehow seems like it took it's strongest hold in the 80's (but I know there have been and probably always will be films like this). Something about how throughout the whole movie you kind of feel both totally detached and this feeling like you should be engrossed. The movie does everything to keep you away by just giving you snippets of things, editing through ridiculous plot before you can really examine how stupid it all is, feeding you lines of dialogue that are simplified with Hollywood Squares type of humor and leads nowhere or tells you exactly what it wants you to feel. At the end of the movie you sense that the character emotions, themes, and musical score are suggesting something epic has occurred. But when you think back you can hardly remember anything that actually happened. I've said little about Short Circuit specifically, but I don't know if I have to. A characteristic of Short Circuit that I feel most other movies of this type also share is this blatent sort of worship of other generally shitty pop culture. It's like all this stuff blends together. Johnny 5's personality comes from watching TV and his name comes from a song. It reminds you that most of the entertainment world is just shitty musical acts blending and breeding with crappy television, movies, and ads. I feel like there are thousands of movies like this and if I end up watching another one, maybe I'll just copy and paste this blog for those reviews as well.
Rating: 2/10