Saw Drillbit Taylor today........
Better than I expected. That's one of the great things about always having low expectations, either you're pleasantly surprised or at the very least there's less disappointment.
Reminds of a good one-liner: I always like to borrow money from pessimists because they never expect to get it back.
Funny, no?
Anyway......the film was actually quite funny. Mostly cheap laughs of course, but you know that going in so that's okay. Owen Wilson had his usual strange broken-nose charm and the kid actors were pretty good. Seth Rogen is on fire, the amount of scripts he's written and produced into films over the past year has been incredible.
There's only one thing that kinda irked me a little. Towards the end of the film Drillbit is being repeatedly punched in the head by the antagonist, the school bully. However initially Drillbit does not fight back and appeals instead to the bully, trying to uncover some kindness beneath his tough exterior. The film sets itself up perfectly for a nice moral message about how violence is not a solution to problems etc etc.
Doesn't work. So what does Drillbit do?
He beats the bully mercilessly to a pulp..........and the good guys win the fight. It was hilarious, but still.
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