Óli Gneisti (English)<p>I finally saw a movie from a great director with an amazing cast. Just to test your filmbuffness I am going to list some of the actors in no particular order and hopefully you will try to guess it.</p><p>Scarlett Johansson<br>Bruce Willis<br>John Ritter<br>Kathy Bates<br>Dan Aykroyd<br>Julia Louis-Dreyfus<br>Alan Arkin<br>Abe Vigoda<br>Rosalind Chao<br>Jason Alexander<br>Kelly McGillis<br>Jon Lovitz<br>Reba McEntire</p><p>The giveaway name, for anyone who has seen the movie at least, is Elijah Wood.</p><p>The director was Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap, Princess Bride, Stand By Me, Misery, A Few Good Men ...</p><p>The answer is:</p><p>North (1994). Did you get it?</p><p>Maybe you've never heard of the movie or you might have been thrown off by Scarlett Johansson (her feature film debut). I was quite proud to have recognized her as a kid without even knowing she was in it.</p><p>I remember looking forward to seeing the North back in 1994 but the wave a negative reactions from the critics and public kept me away for thirty year. On a whim I decided to give it a go without any positive expectations.</p><p>This isn't a good movie or a bad movie. It is silly. It has embarrassing parts (Alaska in particular). On the other hand I laughed aloud at several jokes. Expectations matter a lot. The film simply cannot deliver what you want from Rob Reiner or the cast. It is aggressively mediocre.</p><p>North tries to deliver some sort of message but it fails to do so. The ending was the worst thing about the film. The voice-over is also off-putting at times.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Films</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FilmTrivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmTrivia</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MovieTrivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MovieTrivia</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FilmQuiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FilmQuiz</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/MovieQuiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MovieQuiz</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Trivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trivia</span></a></p>