Night and Day

I know what the title of the movie is and the title sucks, b/c there is no parallel between "day" and anybody else in the movie. But carrying on. . . welcome to the highlights of the latest issue in a series of chick flicks that hate chicks -- as Dave White would put it. Nevermind the all-too-ridiculous/predictable ending of the film that's almost more inconceivably stupid than Adrien Brody's sex scene in Splice was exploding with WTFness. [Or maybe I was exploding with WTFness? O.o] My favorite part of Knight and Day is when Cameron Diaz starts talking about how she wants to have sex, how good it would feel, and then Tom Cruise cuts in with something like,"Are you on drugs?" And she's like, "Yeah." I'm sure there are a few people who could identify with that scenario without the actually-being-on-drugs part.

Earlier on in the film she convinces herself she's on a romantic date with him, while she has inadvertently boarded a plane undergoing a hostage take-over. Of course she has no idea, because she's busy primping herself for an impromptu date, while he's busy killing everyone on the plane; and of course she doesn't notice, b/c she has to fix her hair. If this isn't an oblivious depiction of the American female, I don't know what else is. He has to interrupt the love scene to inform her that he killed the pilots, that the plane is crashing, that some of them killed each other too and sh*t like that just happens; and then she starts laughing hysterically, because she doesn't believe him nor see any of the dead bodies surrounding her. Being a female in a mainstream romantic comedy makes her oblivious to such trivialities, of course.

Then we the audience start laughing hysterically too, because the circumstance isn't really that serious anyways, and the realization that it's not really that serious is actually quite hilarious as well. (Don't think so? It's probably not the film for you. But you knew that already, or I did.) But the ending of the film leaves you with such a horrible impression of the screenwriters and the studio that you keep hoping they're going to back out with some crazy Repo Men-like twist that you could see from a mile away (or in my case...from the moment that Forest Whitaker starts talking about that novel neural network stimulation shiznit.)