As part of my contribution in our parish's participation in the Archdiocese of Chicago's Campaign "To Teach Who Christ Is," I've decided to forgo seeing (and therefore reviewing here) one or two movies a weekend and instead contribute the money I would have spent to the campaign.
I'm trying to be strategic about this, picking movies that would "hurt somewhat" to miss, that is, films that are not "so bad" that I wouldn't see them anyway nor movies that I really would need to see/review or else my blogging effort would cease to be worthwhile.
As per my custom, I will try to provide links to usual line-up of reviews that I also consider as I write my own.
This week I chose to not see 22 Jump Street [2014] giving what I would have spent on seeing the movie to the campaign.
To be honest, I don't think giving this film up was a particularly large sacrifice. I had to give up something and there were IMHO better, more interesting / more challenging films to see. Apparently, a number of the critics (above) found some value in the film's mockery of the "sequel formula." It would seem however, that the film is, above all, what I expected it to be ... a long list of very stupid / tasteless "gross out" jokes, that well ... to pay $8-10 to see?
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