Disgusting Movie:
This weekend, Meredith, her cousin Kay and I got out on a rare outing to a movie, and saw STAR TREK on the big screen; the kids were ‘I-dunno-about-this’ until they got sucked into the story, and they want MORE. I thought for a re-boot of the original series, it was actually darn decent.
The problem was that Meredith was flipping out over a poster on the wall as we went into the theater at the multiplex; I’d heard of this movie vaguely, from online groups I’m connected with, but I didn’t expect her to spot it and be totally flipped out about it. (possibly triggering movie poster for Adoptive kids after the cut and some spoilers about the movie ORPHAN.)
Short version of the story is that you have a murderous psycho ‘orphan’ slashing away at parental types. Meredith saw this and *just* flipped out with anguish and upset. (Doesn’t help that the killer in the movie is also supposed to be nine, like Meredith.)
Took her a bit to compose herself afterwards, and she did NOT want to go back by and see that poster ever ever again. That tag line and the other one from the ‘kid’: “It must be hard to love an adopted child as much as your own” as advertised by Warner Brothers just are really, really sick, in my opinion.
(Heavy pressure, according to IMDB and other sources, forced WB to drop the ‘hard to love’ tag from the ads and the preview, but it’s still in the movie.)
See also:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_(film)
- http://www.imdb.com/media/rm312118016/tt1148204
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1148204/board/thread/137228941 (spoiler as to who/what this kid really is)
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