Ticket Stubs #43: Wrong Place, Right Time
Article by Sean Wilkinson,
And now, to the cheap version of Crash, titled 11:14 and starring Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank.
Around 11:14pm, teenage shenanigans, protective parenting, and generally poor decision-making lead to bizarre deaths as multiple stories converge in a small-town kind of way that keeps you waiting for something bigger, leaves you disappointed in that regard, and is still somewhat satisfying.
There is no real ending to 11:14, but because of the film's small scale, there is actual closure. The film is shorter than one would expect from a film with closure and just long enough that the repetitive story elements are not boring. Worth the $3.95, worth buying, but not for serial viewing.
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On to the cheap version of Crash, titled 11:14 and starring Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank (there are a few other good, low budget names, but I can't think of them right now). Around 11:14pm, a drunken teenager accidentally cuts off his penis while urinating out the window of a moving car, a badboy gets his head crushed by a tombstone during a impromptu bout of graveyard sex, an overprotective father dumps the body of his daughter's boyfriend from an overpass, a town pump tries to scam money away from her multiple boyfriends, and these and multiple other stories converge in a small-town kind of way that keeps you waiting for something bigger, leaves you disappointed in that regard, and is still somewhat satisfying.
There is no ending to 11:14, but because of the film's small scale, there is actual closure. The film is shorter than one would expect from a film with closure and just long enough that the repetitive story elements are not boring. Worth the $3.95, worth buying, but not for serial viewing.
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a.k.a. The Ticketmaster
The two-week trend of time-themed anime and throwback posts concludes here, as does this blog's coverage of the SW@ Ticket #45: Happy Accidents trifecta of my reviews FROM November 22, 2005, which addressed the strange things that happen when people and metal (and, in tonight's film selection, other large, blunt chunks of solid matter) crunch together unexpectedly.
For the other two installments, check out the following links:
Run, Lola, Run: Ticket Stubs #42: Run, Lola, Run (duh)
And if you'd like to watch 11:14 before the inevitable spoilers hit, you can currently do so through Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, VUDU, YouTube, and Google Play Movies.
Around 11:14pm, teenage shenanigans, protective parenting, and generally poor decision-making lead to bizarre deaths as multiple stories converge in a small-town kind of way that keeps you waiting for something bigger, leaves you disappointed in that regard, and is still somewhat satisfying.
There is no real ending to 11:14, but because of the film's small scale, there is actual closure. The film is shorter than one would expect from a film with closure and just long enough that the repetitive story elements are not boring. Worth the $3.95, worth buying, but not for serial viewing.
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Ticketmaster's Note (September 2022): $3.95 was the rental price at my local Blockbuster in 2005. Most of the streaming services mentioned above offer a rental price of $2.99, with VUDU coming in at $3.99, probably because of their licensing deal with WalMart, but I don't know for sure. I did a whole article about WalMart's early steps towards going digital when they were promoting Superman Returns back in 2006, which I may put out next week if time permits. But going through my old writings for new Ticket Stubs content, I realized there was a lot that would just never be received well nowadays, or that was so specific to its time of release (my thoughts on two Smallville season finales, for example). In light of the recent debacle with Warner Bros. and DC, I may just go through and shove it all into one or two posts for preservation and sanity's sake.
Speaking of old, unprofessional writings, here is the original version of the above review, complete with unnecessary interjections, plot spoilers, and semi-relevant pop culture Quotes Of the Week.
On to the cheap version of Crash, titled 11:14 and starring Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank (there are a few other good, low budget names, but I can't think of them right now). Around 11:14pm, a drunken teenager accidentally cuts off his penis while urinating out the window of a moving car, a badboy gets his head crushed by a tombstone during a impromptu bout of graveyard sex, an overprotective father dumps the body of his daughter's boyfriend from an overpass, a town pump tries to scam money away from her multiple boyfriends, and these and multiple other stories converge in a small-town kind of way that keeps you waiting for something bigger, leaves you disappointed in that regard, and is still somewhat satisfying.
There is no ending to 11:14, but because of the film's small scale, there is actual closure. The film is shorter than one would expect from a film with closure and just long enough that the repetitive story elements are not boring. Worth the $3.95, worth buying, but not for serial viewing.
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Quote of the Week #1:
"I thought you'd be bigger."
- Multiple, Road House
Quote of the Week #2:
"Road House."
- Peter Griffin, Family Guy
"I thought you'd be bigger."
- Multiple, Road House
Quote of the Week #2:
"Road House."
- Peter Griffin, Family Guy
I still plan to cover To Your Eternity and Nope next week, but also stay tuned for some of my new MCU theories in the coming days.
Ticketmaster,
Out.
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