Last movie you watched......

That's the one/

 

Fury ... I turned it off 40 minutes in.

Its hard to screw up a WWII it is, but Fury managed to do it.

Shia LaBouf's accent drove me over the edge.

 

You'd a thought they'd discovered the treasure of the Sierra Madre, the way the media in Albuquerque promoted that story. Good grief.

FWIW, I really enjoyed Fury...I found it to be entertainingly old school.

Watched Imitation Game with Mrs. TV last night...she knew nothing about the story, so the movie had some twists and turns for her. As for me, I'm going one thumb down, one up. It's well made, but overly simplified, and lacked emotion. For example, after Christopher did his job, I kept waiting for the Alan-Commander resolution; it never came.

And would it have killed them to spend 30 seconds or so to explain what the machine was actually doing?

 

Date Night

I love Tina Fey. Movie was funny, goofy, and of course, rather implausible, but overall good. Good pairing with Steve Carell.

 

I don't know if there has been an A-list (he's not anymore, but he was for several years) actor who I've despised more than Shia LeBeouf. I thought he was OK in the movie where he had an ankle bracelet and I thought Wall Street II was better than I thought it would be, but he was beyond horrendous in the Transformers and Indy 4. I wasn't expecting him to be Daniel Day-Lewis, but you want to see something that might explain how he got those parts.

 

I definitely did not expect Pitch Perfect 2 to make more than $70 mil last weekend.

 

Watched The Gambler and Wild over the weekend. Enjoyed The Gambler, although it wasn't as good as I had hoped. That's probably my fault, though. Wild was kinda meh. Witherspoon was pretty good, but it definitely wasn't worth theater prices. The $5 On Demand price was about right.

 

I really wonder if theaters might go the way of the drive-in theater someday, due to the rise of high quality, high definition TV/entertainment systems. Plus, the ticket prices seem like they would drive people to cheaper means by streaming, etc.

 

My routine usually consists of me getting pumped for a movie, promising myself I'll see it in theatres, then realizing it's probably not worth the money, and then just waiting until it comes out On Demand.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think American Sniper is the only movie I've seen in theatres this year.

 

"Selma."

Well-done, but these historical dramatizations aren't really my cup of tea, necessarily. I suppose they help us identify with history-makers more than we would, so there's some value. But I'd prefer to see a documentary or read a book, ultimately.

 

Theaters are a big part of American culture, but I could see them vanishing in 40 to 50 years. Maybe far less than that.

I better cross that dick in the popcorn off my bucket list soon.

 

With stuff coming out on On Demand so quickly, it gets tougher and tougher to justify going to the theater.