They did in mine. These creatures are ETs with attitude. I can't wait to see them wreak havoc and blast us back to the Stone Age with their deadly laser beams. But in the meantime, those of us who also appreciate smaller, quieter, and more subtle movies can turn to the Web for guidance to the best of the art-house fare. I was never a real outcast when I was a preteen, but I always teetered on the brink.
Kids can be so cruel.
Watching this movie is going to be painful, but I'm going to go anyway because I love originality in my flicks. No one knows how to promote original independent films better than the Weinstein brothers of Miramax Films. At the Miramax Caf they preview all their upcoming movies and keep sites going for films that have already come out and are now making their way toward the video store. I've been trying to read Irvine Welsh's novel, on which the film is based, and I find it almost impossible since it's written phonetically in a thick Scottish dialect, complete with copious gutter slang. It's definitely funny, even though I'm not sure what's going on.