Last movie you watched......

So your review of A Most Violent Year is that it's really good, but you didn't like it. Remind me to never cook you a meal.

 

We watched the director's cut version of "Cinema Paradiso" Saturday at home.

Luckily, I fell asleep a little way on or I might have grown a bit older before the end credits.

 

I felt that way about A Most Violent Year, too. I felt sort of misled by its marketing. Made it seem like it was supposed to be a bigger crime caper or something. I agree though - good acting, decent story, but by the end, I didn't really care.

 

Watched "Wild" with wifey. Reese does a pretty nice job; fabulous story (woman hiking the Pacific Crest Trail over 80+ days). FWIW, she drops her top. I'd say above average movie.

Watched "Selma" with the family; what a powerful movie; Oweyolo was not bad as MLK, hard to think who could've done it better; boy the reminders of life in the '60s was brutal.

 

Chris Tucker live. A solid "meh."
A few hits, a lot of misses.

 

V/H/S: Viral
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

I'm on vacation. Tuesday is Nic Cage on Netflix Day. Should be great cinema.

 

Yeah, I walked out of the theater after watching Selma wanting to apologize to every black person I saw for being white. It was pretty unflinching.

 

"The Theory of Everything."

MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD





It was far more emotionally draining to watch a happy, if taxing, marriage sputter to a conclusion than it was to watch something like "Revolutionary Road." I can't figure out if Hawking deserted his first wife, or released her.

 

The biggest difference being "The Theory of Everything" was very good while "Revolutionary Road" was very bad.

 

Self/less.

Not horrible. The "immortality" bit has been done before, but it was an enjoyable flick. Probably could've done a lot better than Ryan Reynolds as the lead role.

 

The Candidate with Redford in 1972, and wow, Peter Boyle, with a beard.

I liked it, but I thought it was falling flat in the final half hour. The ending was interesting and thought provoking (no spoiling), but I found it 100% unbelievable. I suppose if you are "handled" that much during an election, you might lose sight of what you stand for.

Anyway, good movie, and worth watching in an election season (almost said election year, but this pain lasts well over a year these days which is complete nonsense).

 

'The Gambler' = terrible
'Mr. Turner' = slow and a little too long but strangely compelling, the sound track was very strange, even eerie