Last week at the movies vol. 1
New weekly feature : I will give my thoughts on the movies I saw the prior week at my local Regal movie theater.
On Tuesday I went and saw the 1957 best picture nominee The Bridge on the River Kwai.
I love classic movies. Although this one was long (almost three hours) the story was interesting even if it wasn’t factually correct. You can learn alot about the state of world history from watching an older movie. I couldn’t get over Sir Alec Guiness being in it since I had only ever seen him in Stars Wars movies (those aren’t the droids you are looking for….)
Wednesday found me seeing Tony.
Slice of life documentaries are much better to watch than trying to capture a person’s entire life in one film. This one focuses on Anthony Bourdain’s life as he is in college. He is someone I really admire and relate to, as it does seem him and I have many similar traits, both good and bad.
Thursday I took a chance on Buddy.
Imagine if Barney, the beloved dinosaur from the late 1990’s was instead of orange unicorn with a dark penchant for killing? I don’t want to say more, but this movie really did have quite a bit to say about how these kids shows can babysit children and opens the path to drill ideas into theirs brains subconsciously. It also dealt with loss and grief in ways I found very interesting.
Friday I tried the movie Onslaught.
Hoping for a fun action movie, Onslaught, for me at least, was more a mindless slog to get through. The main character is so unlikeable. There were some pretty good action and bloody scenes, but the tone of the movie was all over the place. I was laughing when I shouldn’t have been, and by the time it was over, I wasn’t rooting for anyone.
Sunday I took a chance on the movie By Any Means.
I had high hopes for this film. It looked like Mississippi Burning. Based on a true story about the killing of NAACP and voting rights activists, and that the FBI used a New York mafia henchmen to help a new FBI agent catch the killers. Unfortunately, the best parts of this movie was in the end credits where you learn the true story. The movie looked good, but the story wasn’t told in a way that fleshed out the characters and so I was never very invested.
