December 20, 2014

Disastrous dinner parties

Coherence (2013) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2866360/
It's a Disaster (2012) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995341/

We've seen this pair of movies over the past year, and since they share a similar theme - disasters making for awkward dinner parties - I'm lumping them together. 

Coherence is definitely the better of the two - creepier and more sinister, with a more complicated story involving the nature of time and reality, and better dialogue and performances. Not perfect but definitely worth watching. 

It's a Disaster takes more comedic approach to a similarly serious incident, and makes a bit of a mess of it. Like a campy horror film, the characters make bad / stupid decisions and make a bad situation worse, at least one person gets ridiculously drunk, and the resolution of the story is lame, just like the dialogue and characters. 

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