9/28/04 "The Forgotten"

creepy...made me jump!!

9-28-04 "The Forgotten"

Notes from the Red Book

trailers-Team America:World Police, Closer, Spanglish

interesting theory of para-amnesia
So he just lets psycho woman into his apartment and goes to sleep?
Did we get married?
NSA?!? Whatever.
This reminds me of Dark City.
Having a National Enquirer moment
HOLY CAR CRASH!!!
too much salt or sugar.
Ok, I wouldn't undress in front of him.
This guy seems SO dead to me.
Sucked into vortex...huh.
Yeah, why didn't they take you.
Well, I know she gets sucked up cause the commercial gave it away.

So this movie I guess had a sort of interesting premise but I would have liked it a lot better if they could have presented it more as such. Ok, there's this woman Telly, and her son has disappeared. Suddenly, people are trying to tell her that she never had a son, and she needs to give up this idea that she did. She meets a man hose daughter has disappeared, and same deal, except he's forgotten his daughter, and Telly helps him remember her. So they set out in search of their missing children and it's all very X-Files and government and stuff. And, eventually, they get their kids back.

Ok, I hated Telly's name. It reminded me of that character on Sesame Street and I just couldn't take her character seriously after that. It's like making a movie about something really serious, like freeing slaves or the Holocaust, and naming some of the characters E-Z Reader and Letterman. I did find the whole sequence of the alien trying to make Telly forget her son by stealing the memory of his birth interesting, because Telly foils that by remembering when she was pregnant. But the movie was sort of confusing, and not really classic in any way. Skip it.

Until the next time, this is Sarah saying, "I wish this movie could be forgotten."