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The Mothman Prophecies

The Mothman Prophecies - in which Richard Gere cares about someone besides himself. Well, some thing . . . its kind of a mystery. So, Richard Gere is married to some woman who can't drive, but is really good at choosing real estate. She picks them out a new house, and after they do it in the closet and see a flying bug, she is attacked by a hallucination while driving, and swerves and smacks her dumb head into the stupid car window and at the hospital she is diagnosed with severe brain cancer and dies. There may or may not be any correlation in those things. Who knows.
     Anyways, a year later, Richard Gere is on his way to interview a governor, driving himself at night, and he somehow ends up 400 miles away in 3 hours, in a hick-filled mountain town fighting with a hick with a shotgun. It's crazy, and the nice lady sheriff, Laura Linney shows up and gets the situation under control. Richard Gere finds a mediocre motel to stay at while he investigates feeling creepy in a creepy town. I guess this is based on a true story where a bunch of people reported seeing a creepy Moth Man in this dumb town, and then a bridge collapsed. Ugh, the point of the movie is that Gere makes friends with the hick who tried to shoot him in the middle of the night, and I guess to talk to his dead wife, because sometimes the Mothmen appear as ghosts. Also, they will call you on the phone and know everything you're doing, but they do nothing scary or helpful. It's pointless, also,  nothing makes sense. Somehow, the mothmen are giving people info about the future, but it does not appear to be anything useful, UNTIL, Gere is traveling back to a small-town Xmas dinner, and the bridge into town is trafficked-up and suddenly Gere can see the signs pointing to the collapse of the bridge in time to save his police sheriff friend, Laura Linney. These were all sign he had seen previously in dreams, and do not offer any advance warning to anyone else. So, the movie allows the bridge to collapse (or forces it to), and lets a bunch of people and children die, but it does take the time to validate some dumb dream Linney has been having about drowning in a sea of Christmas presents. Thank god. I find the mothmen so much more credible now. Richard Gere moves to a small town because he values life more when he has to travel 3 hours to get sushi, I guess.

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