Maybe I'm Too Mainstream

Rating: 1/10 (3 August 1999)

I was fumbling through the movie store, sickened by seeing Armageddon under a thousand different names. After all, so many movies these days are pathetically identical. I ran across Pi, a movie I had heard rave reviews about since the Sundance Movie Festival. I decided to rent it. What I saw was an incredible waste of my time. It's true that I enjoy mainstream movies like Pulp Fiction, but I refuse to compliment a movie that lacks any content. At times the movie's imagery was brilliant, but I found myself sickened by its twenty cent plot. After all, repeating poetic childhood memories and technical jargon does not a good movie make. Nor does a sequence of obscure post migraine visions. Maybe I'm Too Mainstream.