SBIM (So Blue It's Monday), Watch a Crappy Movie >> Movie 43

We all have the same experience every Monday: It's the first working day of the week, you're feeling super blue. You sit in the office for 10 or so hours and yet you have not picked up the pace just yet. Nothing significant was achieved in a whole day's work. When you finally dragged your tired body home and after having a good shower and dinner, you just wanted to lie on your sofa (or bed), watch a crappy movie to make your day seemed a little less crappy. Somehow, you ended up enjoying the supposedly crappy movie a lot.

You really shouldn't expect much from a movie with the honor of winning Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screenplay at the Razzie Awards. Its current 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes does not affirm much confident as well. It opened with a ghastly $1.8 million, far lesser than the already super crappy Disaster Movie. If none of the three factors mentioned above sounds like an alarm to you, fine you asked for it. Let's watch it together.

The movie tells the story of three teenagers searching for the most banned film in the world, Movie 43, which would ultimately lead to the destruction of civilization. This ultimately led to a series of ridiculous event, but not before they played a few of the "suspected Movie 43" they found online, a.k.a. a series of short films starring A-list stars (including lots of Academy Awards winners / nominees) like Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Naomi Watts, Anna Faris, Richard Gere, Halle Berry and many more. These short films were often absurd and ridiculous, with over the top performances from the stars. Take the first segment for example, Hugh Jackman spotted a dangling testicles on his neck while Kate Winslet tried her very best to suppress her desire to laugh. In another segment, the super gorgeous Halle Berry dared her date to a truth or dare game that eventually ended with both of them getting plastic surgery and you wouldn't believe what have they done to the beautiful Miss Berry.

Okay okay, you roughly get the idea now, don't you? As dreadful as the plot sounds, it really isn't that bad. But first, you need to read back the first sentence in this article. Yes, lower your expectation. You probably will not have another chance to see Oscar winners Kate Winslet and Halle Berry running this wild, and you definitely will not see in another movie where an animated tomcat fought for the affection of its owner with his girlfriend and devised a plan to kill her in an unexpected turn of event. After a hard day's work in the office, you just want to laugh out loud at the silliness you barely care about the logic behind it. You understand you are not watching 12 Years a Slave, all you want is to have a good time before going to bed. You get what you want.

This movie might be critically panned, but every movie has its value of existence. This movie, as it turns out, provides a great escape from reality, and you can fast forward any segment you are not interested in without worrying you might miss any major storyline. At the same time, you really have to wonder, how the hell did they get all these stars agreed to star in this ridiculous movie? The pitch must have been one hell of a great one.

I would have been ended this post with a recommendation of "watch this if you like...", but really I can't think of another movie as silly as this one. Just watch it, for the sake of experiment, and for the sake of Monday Blue.