LIFE.......typical sci-fi alien type movie
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Saw Life. Its what would happen if you threw Alien, The Thing and Gravity in a blender and removed the tasty stuff from all three.
Still a decent time waster with some tense setpieces.Comment
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Watched the documentary on Glen Campbell's last tour after it was announced he had Alzheimer's disease. This is on Netflix currently. This was a very powerful show. It shows what people face day to day having this and the loved ones that care for someone with this disease. It shows the slow decline he had while the tour lasted. It lasted much longer too than was first projected. It was only going to be a very short one but turned into 151 shows. The last one was November 30, 2012. They knew before that show it would be his last. He had declined quite a bit since the beginning of it. He was starting to get very argumentative about a lot things and just couldn't cope. I guess many would say his family exploited him but I really don't think this was the case at all. His wife seemed very supportive and seems to be an excellent care giver through all of this. I think the tour helped him be better for a longer time too. He lad a lot of help with his shows too. The words to his songs were always on teleprompters as one example. Good documentary to watch especially if you have a loved one or someone you know who is fighting this disease.
Also as a side note I read recently that Campbell could no longer play the guitar. His wife said he would sing around the house but it was mostly gibberish and nothing you could really understand. Very sad to see a great musician like him decline so poorly.
Kentucky fan since 1971.Comment
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Saw Unforgettable last week.....typical suspense thriller...the famous Cheryl Ladd had a small role in this movieComment
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Have any of you seen Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer? I never have, but the main reason I'm asking is the star (Michael Rooker) and the director are apparently teaming up again for a film adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". Wondering about the quality of the former, because I'm a big fan of O'Connor and I hope they don't mess this one up.
I will say that I don't think much of Rooker, so my expectations are already low. Sort of like James Franco adapting Cormac McCarthy's work.Comment
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"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" is a good movie. It's a little raw technically and the content (obviously) can be hard to stomach, but the movie is effective. Rooker, in particular, is fantastic. Recommended.
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" is great. But so is James Franco, and we seem to disagree about this, so...
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Not necessarily. I'm a James Franco fan - just not his adaptation of Child of God. Probably should've worded my previous comment a little differently.
Fun fact: Franco and I were supposedly *this close* to being classmates in creative writing while I was working on my MA.Comment
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Tower.
Netflix documentary about the infamous University of Texas tower shooting in the 1960s. (Of note: Stephen King has written, both directly and indirectly, about this event a few times throughout his career.) The movie is unique in that if fuses animation with documentary-style footage. I was a little dubious about it, in part because the description tells you it doesn't focus on the killer but the victims. Generally if I'm watching a documentary about a crime I want the mystery to be unraveled, the killer's life to be laid bare, etc. I was expecting something overly sentimental...but I was wrong. This is a very well-done film, and while it has virtually nothing about the killer, the stories of the victims and the at times surreal animation combine to give the movie a riveting quality you don't see in a lot of crime docs.
Highly recommended.Comment
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Shot for shot, the original Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the most entertaining movies I've seen. This sequel wastes no time with prologue and jumps right into the action. The gang's all here...but this time it's a bigger gang with more players (Kurt Russell? Sly Stallone?), and so the main crew gets pretty diluted. Chris Pratt goes surprisingly long stretches in this with no screen time as the makers try to pack all kinds of things in, sewing the seeds for Vol. 3. This means 20 or so minutes of unnecessary running time, and it also means there is a lot to look at on the screen. Guardians is the perfect movie for the ADD age, and for the most part the video-game-in-a-movie formula works well. But when you get to that final half-hour you might feel like the film is starting to implode a little and your attention wavers to questions like, "Was 'Kurt Russell' really Walt Disney's last words before he died?"
Still, this is recommended for an action flick and is just goofy enough to get that mix of awe and laughter nearly right.Comment
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I thought the first "Guardians of the Galaxy" was overrated, forgettable and silly.
Of course, I also think "Star Wars" is lame as a general rule, so maybe I'm not the right audience for this sort of film.
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I did. I liked it...but it's obviously a behemoth. Like a lot of King, you feel like about half of it could have been cut out.
I've now read I think four of his huge books: It, Insomnia, 11/22/63, Under the Dome. Of those I think only 11/22/63 kept my attention for its entirety. The others were tedious at times...though I love quite a bit of Under the Dome. I made myself finish it just so I could say it was the longest book I'd ever read.
It's very hard for me to read long books nowadays. I used to read some epic fantasy back in high school. Now anything over 350 pages or so I have to really fight to keep reading.Comment
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I felt like almost all of IT was engrossing and is his best example of "world building." The only thing I didn't care for was the widely criticized kid-gangbang in the sewers, but I'm going to chalk that up to his raging cocaine/alcohol problem while he wrote it.
The Stand and The Dark Tower are his other two behemoths, but they both merit their length in ways that stuff like Insomnia (crap) and Under the Dome don't.Comment
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