Last movie you watched......

That review made me lose some respect for Ebert.

 

The U.S. version (Keifer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock and Nancy Travis) isn't bad. At the time it was filmed, I was actually working in the little mountain town where the gas station central to the plot is. Trivia alert: Same tiny mountain town where "Twin Peaks" was shot.

 

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

 

They changed the ending in the American version, didn't they?

 

Yep, they pretty much copped out. Still not a bad movie, though.

 

Based on his broad body of work, his gravitas, and the fact I tend to agree with him 90%+ of the time, I'll give him a mulligan on this one, but it is
depressing he leaned the way he did.

 

Caddyshack.

Never gets old.

 

HC & I watched "Defendor" the other night.

Woody Harrelson does a pretty good job playing a mentally challenged superhero. Script was so so. The entire movie was shot in Hamilton and the cinematography captured some of The Hammer's Third World charm.

And Clark Johnson was in it. Guy gets around.

 

I saw that when it came out in the theatre. At that point I'd decided that it didn't matter what it was, Hillary Swank was going to knock it out of the park.

As biopic/historical dramas go, it was OK. Not as good as, say, Apollo 13. But I was one of those people who really only knew about her plane disappearing, so the things about Earhardt's life I didn't know were the things that kept my attention with Amelia.

 

She's Out of My League

Yes, she is out of your league. And your whole story is contrived, and there is no reason to root for you other than the trite contrivances of genre, and your family is so unrealistically, absurdly buffoonish that it would strain the limits of believeability if this were a science fiction film, and why would a woman so fearless in every other aspect of her life settle for an ineffectual nebbish?

 

"The Boondocks Saints 2: All Saints Day" was enjoyable in a popcorn-munching way. It tried to do everything the first did and made fun of itself more than it did anything original. Still, I watched it with a 12-pack and a friend that enjoys bad action movies, so it was a fun two hours.

 

Good pull. That guy, Troy Duffy, was very much like a guy I used to hang with who got some pretty good opportunities and pissed 'em all away. Just a type, I guess.