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Harold & Kumar Go to Amsterdam (2008)
self-indulgent holiday footage
This 12 minute short was released as part of the Choose Your Own Adventure option on the H&K Guantanamo Bay DVD. The blurb is: "Ever wonder what would have happened if Harold & Kumar had not been sent to Guantanamo and simply made it to Amsterdam? Here's a little something director Jon Hurwitz shot guerrilla-style all over Amsterdam in 3 days."
While vaguely amusing, it seems like the 4 main actors just spent the time filming each other snogging, which is a pricey way to spend a trip to Europe. They even got the actress playing Kumar's lost love Vanessa on the trip simply for a short dream sequence. Nice work if you can get it!
Haunted (1995)
Yet _another_ worst film in the world ...
Aidan Quinn plays a debunker of psychic phenomena in this 'period chiller', visiting an English country house, with a cast of eccentrics and gaping plot holes. Kate Beckinsale exists simply to remove her clothes 4 times and have sex once. The final 'twist' just makes a mockery of everything that has gone before, and considering the credits include Francis Ford Coppola, Lewis Gilbert and James Herbert, this dreadful piece of hokum should never have got onto the screen. I'm sure everyone concerned really put their heart into making it, but the ham-fisted special effects and 'special guest' John (could do this in his sleep and probably did) Gielgud just made me laugh all the more!