I didn’t get to see X2 last night (it was sold out at TWO theatres I went to), but I did see this movie instead, and it’s frikkin’ awesome. It’s called Identity, starring John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, and an extremely solid supporting cast.
Anyway, I don’t want to give it away because the joy of this movie is the twist(s) it takes, but here’s the briefest of plot outlines. About ten people find themselves stranded at a Nevada motel during a huge rainstorm. And well, as the night progresses, people start dying. The people there then begin to realize that they are a lot more closely related then they at first thought, they aren’t complete strangers after all. This main plot is counterposed by this other one about a psychiatrist and some lawyers reviewing the case of a man who is about to be lethally injected over multiple homicides so many years ago.
I really recommend if you can spare a trip to the movies to go see this. It’s creepy, puzzling, and very multi-faceted. A lot of psychological references and also references to the author Sartre as well.
As Sin and I were waiting in line for x2 to start, we saw a whole bunch of people come out of Identity… most of them were very old. ^^; But there’re alot of movies that I’d like to see… but $9.50 to get in? I’ll wait for the rental.
he has a great performance as the lead man, he’s really cool and complicated. Actually, while watching the movie I thought of a few parallels between me and Cusack and Sin and Liotta. There’s this one almost hilarious scene when all the characters lock themselves together in one of the hotel rooms and Liotta, who has a gun, starts waving it around and starts shouting,
“If that guy [someone they have tied up in the next room] does anything funny, I’m gonna shoot him! And if anyone comes in through that door, I’m gonna shoot it too! And if any of you do <i>anything</i> I don’t like, I’m gonna shoot you!!!”
Originally posted by Astral As Sin and I were waiting in line for x2 to start, we saw a whole bunch of people come out of Identity… most of them were very old. ^^; But there’re alot of movies that I’d like to see… but $9.50 to get in? I’ll wait for the rental.
If you go before a certain time you should be able to get tickets at about $6-7 each.
I haven’t seen Identity, but I did hear about the plot (including spoilerific things) from a coworker. I don’t like watching movies involving gory losses of life, and I wanted to know what happened, so I asked. The plot sounds super, and I don’t think people would be very disappointed (if at all). Of course, John Cusack is great regardless.
Originally posted by Astral As Sin and I were waiting in line for x2 to start, we saw a whole bunch of people come out of Identity… most of them were very old. ^^; But there’re alot of movies that I’d like to see… but $9.50 to get in? I’ll wait for the rental.
Wow, Atral, do you go to five diamond movie theatre? It only costs $5.50 where I live and tha’s only for the new movies. The older ones are only $5.
the higher end areas of the country (cost of living-wise) such as California have been getting skyrocketing ticket prices for movie theatres over the last few years.
