Dragonfly

I've always liked this movie. I liked it even more today.

>"Death is like being pregnant; You're either are or you're not."

Kevin Costner, I love ya, but I was not feeling it in this one. The ending was good but the movie for the most part just bored me. Bumping it up because they actually filmed in South America (Venezuela).

When this movie came first came out (20 years ago), I avoided seeing it despite consuming just about every single supernatural movie ever crapped onto the screen. While Dragonfly was marketed as a horror-ish movie, there was something about the trailers that gave off a soft-rock, almost Hallmark movie vibe that threatened a boring time. Well, since the world is rapidly coming to an end I figured I should finally give this one a fair shake. What if I were missing out on something interesting? Maybe it’s not my thing, but there are plenty of movies that I don’t like but can learn from.

No, my instincts were spot-on. It was sappy, paternalistic, melodramatic, and bland, like a poorly lit black and white photo of a wedding ring next to a gravestone. The music is perhaps the worst part of it all as the sweeping orchestra is so out of place for a supernatural drama. Now I’m left with a strange feeling in my mind as though the movie is just so _wrong_ that the memory of it can’t sit comfortably within my brain.