BAD BAD BAD acting

The worst acting comes from our very own Jena Malone. Throughout the entire movie, she sports the same bland, depressed look. And the way she delivers her lines is infuriating! She halts roughly every two words -- assumably to emphasize the confusion of her character -- so, by the middle of her sentence, you want to scream "JUST SPIT IT OUT!"

This is a BAD movie ... and not because it's low-budget.

This movie ought to be called "Weed". The poisoned sheep eat "the weed" that grows as a result of hybrid corn being planted. Throughout the movie, the characters talk about "the weed" and rarely "the corn".

FYI, "weed" is said at least 37 times. My friend tallied it.




Some of the finer points in "Corn":

- At one point, Emily opens her car door, leans away from the car, and pukes on the ground, then clearly steps out of the car, tredding right where she just puked.
- The meatpacking area in the grocery store is a) needlessly blood-sprayed, and b) staffed by roughly 20 meatpackers, even when the grocery store is not particularly big and is frequented by a gracious maximum of six people at a time.
- The fire inside the barn, as seen through the barn windows, looks hardly more realistic that the fire in The Sims 1.
- The crunching, squishing sounds as an off-camera mother sheep presumably eats her young.
- The (rather slimy) lamb leg that Emily pulls from the refrigerator is from the dead sheep that Emily's father pulls from the barbed wire fence at the beginning of the movie.
- During the scene where Emily gets in a passionate argument with the corn scientist, the corn scientist notes that Emily is wet, and -- in an attempt to maker her leave -- suggests that she tidy herself up, at which Emily's father crudly agrees: "Yeah! You look like hell!". It is so out of place and further destroys an already pathetic "emotional" scene.