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I rented some movies over the weekend. Unfortunately there wasn’t much to choose from so I ended up with a couple of new releases, the first of which was Premonition.

I have to be quite honest with you…I have no idea what the point of this movie was. About half way through Premonition I thought I knew how it was going to end. When it actually did end the way I had hypothesized I was elated, yet thoroughly disappointed. I always enjoy being right, but when it happens so early in the movie it leaves nothing to the imagination. Even though I knew how it was going to end I still didn’t really know what was going on. Why the hell were her days all messed up? And why didn’t the events of the days actually correspond to one another? I thought the overall events of the movie were suppose to all line up, they were just in the wrong order, but apparently that’s not the case (judging by the continuity inconsistencies), making the story even more useless.

The next movie on the stack was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This movie was also very disappointing for me. The story was missing all the things that I liked about the Turtles and added characteristics to the Turtles that took me out of the whole thing. Since when is “Raf” a thug? To be honest, I don’t remember what happened at the end of the last Turtle movie but I’m assuming that Shredder dies, ‘cuz he isn’t in this movie. I appreciate the movie makers trying to stick to the continuity of the previous movies (if that’s what’s going on), but I feel like it was the wrong thing to do. I could care less if Shredder died in the last movie, I still want to see him in this movie too. Bebop, Rock Steady, Shredder and Crang are as much a part of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as the turtles themselves. A movie without the original villains just isn’t worth seeing. There is a hint at the end of the movie that Shredder will be back in the next movie so why couldn’t they just bring him back in this one and be done with it?

All-in-all a very unsatisfying week for movies. The movie I most wanted to see this week was Hot Fuzz, but it was all rented out and the store only had the fullscreen version.