One of the more difficult summers I’ve ever experienced and yet in the past days I’ve found it also one of the more… uninteresting?

We had some free time last weekend and it looks like we’ll have some this weekend but, looking at the films out there… wow.

I stated this before and I’ll repeat it now: What a boring summer movie season…!

Which brings me to this: Perhaps its a sign of becoming older and finding the films being released simply aren’t aimed at you.

Mind you, there is at least one film at this moment I’m sorta/kinda curious to see, Crawl. That’s the people-in-peril-during-a-hurricane-because-alligators film.

Crawl is set in my stomping grounds, Florida, and the thing that’s kept me from jumping to see it -other than the fact that I’m the only one in my family who goes for horror- is that the commercials sure do look like the movie was made by people who have never been to Florida.

I know, I know… not everyone knows about Florida or Hurricanes and maybe I should just let it go. It’s a freaking horror film, right?

Check out his review by Sezin Koehler and presented on the blackgirlnerds.com website:

Crawl gets everything wrong about Florida, hurricanes, and even alligators

Ms. Koehler goes at the film from the perspective of someone who indeed does live in Florida and its interesting that she notes the audience she watched the film with -Floridians I assume- were ultimately laughing at the absurdity presented.

The main thing I saw in the trailer I posted above was the idea that in Florida there’s a basement/crawlspace under a house.

As Ms. Koehler notes and what is indeed true, homes in South Florida, which lies essentially at sea level, simply do not have basements. To have them is to have a nice place that will get flooded, period.

Also, noting the homes in the commercial, wood houses don’t last in Florida. They are made of concrete because when a hurricane comes through, wood homes are done.

Back in the 1920’s, when Miami Beach was first starting to get red hot, there were many buildings built and a lot of them were built of wood. In 1935, a massive hurricane hit the Keys/Florida and much of that architecture was blown to pieces.

Builders learned their lesson and we’ve had other hurricanes since then and most of the “new” stronger buildings proved more capable of withstanding the forces of a hurricane.

But a category 5 hurricane? Trust me folks, if you live in Florida and other areas affected by hurricanes and you hear there’s a category 5 heading toward you… flee.

Get the hell out of there.

Yet this movie presents, which I wasn’t aware until reading this review, that a category 5 hurricane appears to come out of literally no-where and its effects on the wood home this movie takes place in simply doesn’t fit with the effects of such a hurricane.

I will further agree with Ms. Koehler on one more aspect, which she concludes her review with: There was potential there for a decent story but, truthfully, if they had only spent one moment of time researching Florida and hurricanes, they might have created a film more rooted in reality.