(2012) [Trailer]
Director: Barry Levinson [IMDB]
The wife and I spent Christmas eve with our good friends Shawn and Doug. We decided to get into the holiday spirit with a great Christmas classic... The Bay.
Synopsis: A small town on the Chesapeake Bay starts to get infected with a mysterious plague.
It's hard to believe the same guy that brought you Rain Man, Sleepers, and Good Morning Vietnam is responsible for this film. It's a 180 from any of those and pretty bad by comparison.
The Bay employs the use of the "found footage" genre which is so hot these days. I enjoy a good found footage film as much as the next guy and The Bay does a good job holding to that aesthetic. It also delivers some great practical effects work... the hives people got and the little trilobite critters were pretty awesome. That's about it for the good stuff.
The science in The Bay is really wack and the way these events come to play and the way they are resolved are really unbelievable. The acting was pretty bad, but in a unique way, everyone seemed to be real enough but there was no emotion behind anything. Levinson also kept using these flashbacks to try and help the viewer piece the narrative together... the film's only 80 minutes, I think we can figure it out.
There's some unintentional funny moments throughout The Bay's run time, but I'll save them for now until you see the film... ok? Cool, email me when you're done.
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