I hadn’t been to the movies in a while, and I decided to rectify that.<\/p>\n
Derailed<\/i>. The new Clive Owen\/Jennifer Aniston film. I knew very little about the film going in. It’s based on a novel by someone (I’ve seen it in Barnes & Noble and Target), it’s about a married man who meets a woman on a commuter train, contemplates having an affair, and then all sorts of shit happen after a botched tryst. The only other thing I knew was what little I read in Entertainment Weekly<\/i> last week, an interview with Owen and Aniston that said that there were some major and shocking plot twists along the way.<\/p>\n
However<\/i>. I’ve seen no commercials. I’ve seen no trailers.<\/p>\n
Still, I was intrigued enough to plunk down my $8.50. I like Clive Owen. I like Jennifer Aniston, though not for Friends<\/i>. Sorry, it’s a horribly overrated television show. (Shout out to you, Bill Leisner<\/a>.)<\/p>\n And how was Derailed<\/i>?<\/p>\n It’s got plot twists. It’s mildly surprising. It’s also incredibly<\/i> boring — whole sections of the film drag horribly. Clive Owen, a usually dependable actor, looks bored most of the time. Jennifer Aniston seems out-of-place amid all this mess. The one actor who actually seems to be enjoying all this is Gioncarlo Esposito, and I couldn’t help but think of his character from Homicide<\/i>‘s final season every time he was on screen.<\/p>\n Derailed<\/i> feels very much like a made-for-television movie. So, what went wrong? What could have made this better? Frankly, the story just wasn’t that interesting. I didn’t feel that the Clive Owen character was really<\/i> that much in jeopardy, even though the stakes progressively increased. On the other hand, he’s an incredibly<\/i> lucky bastard.<\/p>\n I can’t think of a reason to see Derailed<\/i>. The direction was competant, but the acting was uninspired and the story was uninvolving. Wait for free cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hadn’t been to the movies in a while, and I decided to rectify that. Derailed. The new Clive Owen\/Jennifer Aniston film. I knew very little about the film going in. It’s based on a novel by someone (I’ve seen it in Barnes & Noble and Target), it’s about a married man who meets aContinue reading “On Derailed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[413,1028,4106],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-clive-owen","tag-derailed","tag-film","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}