http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063 I ventured out to the movies with one of the Usual Suspects to see catch a matinee of "The Ruins" or as I call it, "Killer Plants from Mexico." Four American friends, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, on vacation in Cancun, Mexico, meet a German tourist, Sergio Calderon,  that persuades them to join his hunt for his younger brother, who was last seen with his girlfriend near some mysterious ruins. Dun dun duuuuuun!!!! You know, recently these Americans on vacation movies have taught us that you are not supposed to trust someone with an accent in a foreign land if they want to take you some place, yet they keep making movies with people that do that. I just don't understand the logic. So They get to the ruins and are set upon by a pack of people who kill one of them and force the rest to the top of the ruins. As they wait help, they try to survive as the foliage of the ruins tries to get to them. This movie ranked very high on the unintentional comedy scale. Tucker was half Doogie Howser, half McGuyver staying unrealistically calm and performing several medical procedures during his run as a 22-year-old med student. Ashmore, I liked him in X-Men as Iceman, but here his chief job was to look grimy as mildew grew on his shirt and in his hair. I get that this movie was going for an old school feel. There wasn't a lot of bells and whistles, there was just a place, some scared people and something creepy trying to kill them. It was still a stupid stupid stupid, badly acted, terribly shot movie. We get no explanation or even a half-guess as to why the plants are alive and trying to eat people, we don't know who the people-who don't speak Spanish-are trying to keep the Americans on the ruins, I mean I can leave my brain at the door for certain movies, but this one just expects way too much from your suspension of disbelief and logic. More unintentional comedy I am sure, Ben Stiller, was a producer on the film.   I ventured out to the movies with one of the Usual Suspects to see catch a matinee of "The Ruins" or as I call it, "Killer Plants from Mexico." Four American friends, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore, on vacation in Cancun, Mexico, meet a German tourist, Sergio Calderon,  that persuades them to join his hunt for his younger brother, who was last seen with his girlfriend near some mysterious ruins. Dun dun duuuuuun!!!! You know, recently these Americans on vacation movies have taught us that you are not supposed to trust someone with an accent in a foreign land if they want to take you some place, yet they keep making movies with people that do that. I just don't understand the logic. So They get to the ruins and are set upon by a pack of people who kill one of them and force the rest to the top of the ruins. As they wait help, they try to survive as the foliage of the ruins tries to get to them. This movie ranked very high on the unintentional comedy scale. Tucker was half Doogie Howser, half McGuyver staying unrealistically calm and performing several medical procedures during his run as a 22-year-old med student. Ashmore, I liked him in X-Men as Iceman, but here his chief job was to look grimy as mildew grew on his shirt and in his hair. I get that this movie was going for an old school feel. There wasn't a lot of bells and whistles, there was just a place, some scared people and something creepy trying to kill them. It was still a stupid stupid stupid, badly acted, terribly shot movie. We get no explanation or even a half-guess as to why the plants are alive and trying to eat people, we don't know who the people-who don't speak Spanish-are trying to keep the Americans on the ruins, I mean I can leave my brain at the door for certain movies, but this one just expects way too much from your suspension of disbelief and logic. More unintentional comedy I am sure, Ben Stiller, was a producer on the film.   en-us I like how Jena Malone was vomiting and hung over one second and the next had enough energy to hike through the freakin forest and never did show any further signs of a hangover. Most people I know wouldn't recover that fast. Guess those plants also have healing power. Another fave moment of mine is how she had Flo Jo like speed running away--while barefoot. This after going thirsty and hungry for however many days. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Cause that's not hard to buy AT ALL. "good thing we cut his legs off." Hehehe. Unintentional comedy is always the best. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063/#c_44534 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063/#c_44534 I like how Jena Malone was vomiting and hung over one second and the next had enough energy to hike through the freakin forest and never did show any further signs of a hangover. Most people I know wouldn't recover that fast. Guess those plants also have healing power. Another fave moment of mine is how she had Flo Jo like speed running away--while barefoot. This after going thirsty and hungry for however many days. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Cause that's not hard to buy AT ALL. "good thing we cut his legs off." Hehehe. Unintentional comedy is always the best. I thought she still had the flip flops on. How those stayed on...undoubtedly from the forces generated when she achieved access to the Speed Force thought only known to the Flash. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063/#c_44535 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063/#c_44535 I thought she still had the flip flops on. How those stayed on...undoubtedly from the forces generated when she achieved access to the Speed Force thought only known to the Flash. I've always like Jena Malone. Too bad she chose a bad project. Grrrr! http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063/#c_44543 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/BjLewis/7063/#c_44543 I've always like Jena Malone. Too bad she chose a bad project. Grrrr!