Jul 25 2008

Questionable Taste Theatre: “Gattaca”

For Questionable Taste Theatre this week, I present a movie that had only two things wrong with it: GATTACA.

(Those two things are Ethan Hawke. He’s so bad I counted him twice.)

Nutshell: In the near future, when genetic modification of embryos is standard, Ethan Hawke is born as a lumbering “god-child” with no job prospects. Sick of his life (wouldn’t you be if you were Ethan Hawke?), he goes underground and assumes the identity of Jude Law, who at this point was actually someone whose life you’d want to have. Will he make it into space? Will he sound like he even cares?

“That piece can only be played with twelve.”
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