6 posts tagged “movies”

Today I watched a movie that I had previously recorded on my DVR.

It is titled "Good Luck Chuck."

It has been out a good while and I didn't think it would be worth the price of admission at a theater so I waited for it to come out on DVD at the rental store.  Then I signed up for Showtime with my cable provider and recorded it from there. 

Yes! It did have some nudity and plenty of sexual situations, BUT it also had scads of humor, and I love me some humor when it comes in any situation.

Just thought you'd like to know my opinion of it just in case you've been passing over it at your local Video store.

For our 38th wedding anniversary, Maureen and I deicded to take in a movie, some lunch and some shopping since we would already be at the local mall.

We agreed on "KNOWING" as the best choice, not that there was much out there that had even the most remote possibility of being a better pick.

We only "Liked" the movie when all was over.  I suppose our taste in movies is in question.

By the way; I hope the world doesn't really end like that but I suppose it could.

That's all from down here.  Go and see it if you want to know what we discovered.

On Friday, Maureen and I drove over to the multiplex and enjoyed "Taken."

To myself it was the perfect movie, produced as all perfect movies should be.

It had a beginning and an end with lots and lots of action in between.

I love a movie about anyone whose word is their bond.

When Liam Neeson's character explained the choices the kidnapper had; release my daughter now and it ends here, refuse to release her and I will hunt you down and kill you and the kidnapper responds with "Good Luck" I knew something exciting was sure to fiollow and I was correct.

It has nothing good to say about the French which was perceived by myself as a plus.

I almost allowed myself to applaud when Liam flipped the switch on that sucker and walked out of the room.

Promise kept!  Everything after that was bonus material.

I was quite taken by "Taken."

Last Saturday, Maureen and I went to see a movie and what a movie it was.

Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood's most recent endeavor.

I'm not going to tell you "You've got to see this movie!"

The truth is, it's not for everyone. 

The PC people would hate it.

We and everyone else in the place laughed a lot. 

I'm not accustomed to hearing others laugh like that in a mega-plex theater.

Then we all wept. 

No one was prepared for it.

I never take tissues with me to a movie unless I have a serious cold.

So, I had a wet sleeve when I walked out into the cold.

I loved the movie.

So did Maureen.

Last evening we watched "Step-Brothers."

Yes! It was silly, childish and profane at times, very profane at certain points also.

Boil it down and it was Lude, Crude and at times, very, very funny.

Let's face it; who doesn't like a skit that includes passing gas for a record setting length of time?

What's funnier than a high pitched, sustained emission that ends with several louder, punctuations of straining sphincter vibrations at a very inappropriate time, such as a job interview, then top that off with the interviewer stating that they could taste the offensive odor.

I can't help it, I almost busted a gut laughing at that point.  Maureen put the playback on "Pause" while I caught my breath.  She was laughing also, but at me, not at the event in the movie.

It was rated "UR."  Does that stand for "unrated?" I suppose that was a hint and I missed it.

Is there anything worse than getting into a movie, enjoying it immensely and then, just when one would expect an exciting and informative climax, one that ties up all the loose ends that were dangling up to that point...the director uses his creative license and stops the movie right there?

I'll answer my own question and say YES! There is something worse.

I hate to resort to what some might believe to be a vulgar allegory but the worse case scenario and allegory I came up with was SEX.  That's right...SEX! 

No one I know would say that sexual intercourse without a climax is any good, let alone GREAT.

So why is it that the people who produce the Academy Awards thought that "No Country for Old Men" was worthy of any nominations at all?

I actually believe that most movie lovers are as myself.  They are not that complicated with respect to the movies they love.  If someone likes one particular movie over many others they have seen it's because that movie touched them in a special way or it spoke to them about life, how it is in reality or in their dreams.

Most of us want to see the bad guy get what's coming to him.  A lot of bad guys in "No Country for Old Men" did get what they deserved but the baddest of the bad; we simply do not know his fate by the time the movie ended. We are not sure what happened to the two millions dollars in cash that was the reason for all the bloodshed. We did not see the main character's wife die.  It was only suggested...not revealed.  We saw the main character or some body that looked like him laying in the open doorway of a seedy motel but we didn't actually see how he came to that end and who did it.  It was only implied from a great distance.  There was just too much that we would like to have known but instead, we came away scratching our collective heads and wondering..."What the heck just happened."

If I had more than two thumbs, I'd turn them all down as a rating for the movie. 

I think they should try it again, only this time, give us what we want, not what you think we should get for our money.

I'm mad as can be about it too but all I can do is vent and all that does is make me feel just a tiny bit better. I know it's not helping anyone else who paid good money to see it unless that feel better by being in a crowded boat.

And one more thing...I wish I understood what that story Ed Tom Bell told there at the surprise ending had to do with anything so far as the plot line of the movie went. Was that what passes for a metaphor down in Texas?