Halle Berry and Bruce Willis starring in a big screen updating of the seminal sitcom, Perfect Strangers. Think about the money you could make on that one. That movie just sells itself.
Sadly, that’s not the movie they’ve signed up to star in – it’s missing one crucial “s,” making it a psychological thriller by the name of Perfect Stranger. You know it’s a thriller because it has a creepy name, and not a positive name like Perfect Friend We Just Haven’t Met Yet.
The movie is about the internet, believe it or not. Berry is an undercover cop searching for the killer of her friend, she discovers he used to frequent emo chat on AOL, before everybody moved over to MakeoutClub. Could he have been killed because he dissed Connor Oberst? Is Bruce Willis, the prime suspect, actually that hot 18 year old girl from Tampa you’ve been cybering with? As you can see, the terror possibilities are endless.
I have been watching the Profit DVD set, by the way, and that’s one of the many TV shows and movies that has a completely ludicrous portrayal of the internet and data storage and interface in general. You have to wonder if anyone who has made any of these movies or shows has even seen a computer. I just hope that Perfect Stranger includes an exciting cyber-showdown, where Bruce’s avatar (Pikachu) hunts down Berry’s avatar (an Oscar statue) through Worlds of Warcraft.