the legend of murphy's law

Rating: 2/10 (26 October 2007)

I panned this film in a lengthy review, mocking everything about it- its ridiculously abbreviated telling of the Matt Damon character's backstory, its ridiculous "I am an old man in the beginning and the end of the film, and the bulk of the movie is my narration of events from my childhood" framing device, the ridiculous Bagger Vance character, the ridiculous golf mythologizing, the ridiculous "It's the Depression, we need a hero!" stuff, the ridiculous way in which one is never in doubt, for a second, about the very next thing that will happen, the ridiculous attempt to deal with the philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in a piece of Hollywood cheese about GOLF- I also mocked the movie for seemingly being aimed at the "ignorant, rich old white person" demographic, as that was the only group I could see enjoying it. I thought my saying I was white would make this statement OK, but maybe not- it was either that statement, my calling the film "crap", or the general tone of the review, that caused it, alone among the reviews I've submitted to this site, to not be allowed. Or maybe it was the part where I said the film was sort of evil in its stupidity. I did, however, praise Charlize Theron, who was wonderful. Will this review get through? It should. It's honest.