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My Grandma Reviews: "Drillbit Taylor"

By jeremyblachman

"I know I say this a lot, but it's really one of the worst things I ever saw.  It's alright for children, I guess.  It's certainly not the kind of picture I want to see.  My friend picked it again.  I know I keep saying we won't let her pick, but she always insists.  And she'll never admit she doesn't like the movie.  "I see it, I enjoy it, " she says.  I asked a few people in the theater, they said they enjoyed it.  I didn't."

"What was it about?"

"There are three kids who are abused and this man is supposed to take care of them.  The one who wrote this -- and there was a lot to it, there was a lot of story going on -- I think the one who wrote this piece, he must have had a very, very horrible childhood.  It's supposed to be a comedy, but I didn't think it was funny.  I just didn't enjoy watching it.  The kids are always getting into trouble, and this guy is supposed to defend them.  The idea of the picture, I guess, you're supposed to get a lesson out of it, never let people take advantage of you, you have to fight back.  He tries to teach them how to fight back.  I don't know.  I don't think it proved a lesson to me.  I don't agree with this movie that kids should just fight, fight fight.  To have kids fight back with their arms and legs, punching and kicking, that didn't seem like a very good lesson.  I think the writer must be very disturbed and peculiar, he was probably picked on during his childhood and never really recovered from it.  I feel bad for him.  And yet they call this a comedy."

Full post as published by Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog on March 22, 2008 (boomark / email).