I had lunch with my sister today at Fazoli’s. Fazoli’s (along with T.G.I. Friday’s) is high up on my list of “restaurants that have clearly superior competitors in their market niche”. The pizza dough is bland, the sandwiches are often toasted to the point of being slightly burnt, and the breadsticks are uninteresting (and they took away the dipping sauces a couple years ago). I wouldn’t be surprised if a sizeable number of the Lincoln Fazoli’s customers are people like my sister, who live far enough away from a Fazoli’s that their perceptions about the chain are rose-tinted to some degree.
However, my mild disdain for Fazoli’s is nothing compared to the seething hatred I have for Ultraviolet. It’s very, very unfortunate that I wasted $6 and 88 minutes of my life on something that horrid. Please, for the love of God, do not see this movie. It’s so bad that it quickly drops from the realm of “funny-bad” to just plain “unspeakably awful”. The Ultraviolet reviews on Rotten Tomatoes provides more insight into how terrible this perfect storm of bad script, bad acting and bad CGI truly is.