Who cares What Lies Beneath?

I wasted three hours of my life last night watching What Lies Beneath, a terrible movie that was on tv. TV, how could you steer me so wrong?

Robert Zemeckis directed it in the time it took Tom Hanks to lose all that weight for Castaway, a movie that sucked in the end but was at least not a suckfest all the way through. He also directed the Back to the Future movies, which rock. He's currently ruining Beowulf, making it as a computer-generated movie like The Polar Express, possibly with Tom Hanks voicing all the characters again.

But let's focus on What Lies Beneath. First, there's Harrison Ford, who seems to make the same basic movie over and over again. He had such success as Indiana Jones and Han Solo, he must have decided that being a boring doctor/scientist/businessman was his niche. Ok. He seems bored through most of the movie, then just pissed off that he's in it.

Then there's Michelle Pfeipfpfer (aka, Catwoman). She's decent. She actually is a pretty good actress. But still, I kept wanting Chewbacca to show up and save the day.

This movie rips off a bunch of better movies, like Rear Window, Psycho, Fatal Attraction, and Star Wars (or at least it would have ripped off SW if they took my advice and threw in Chewbacca).

It did remind me for a bit of The Others, with Nicole Kidman. That is a terrific movie. I highly recommend that one, if you haven't seen it. It's clever, scary, and not at all ridiculous and stupid and pointless. There's no wookie, but it's still good.