They may not be too many films with a title which conjures an image so different from the movie we get. While MACHINE GUN PREACHER may sound like a B-movie from the 70s, it is actually a based-on-a-true-story biopic about a born again Christian who becomes a savior to orphans in war-torn Sudan. And while, yes, he does pick up a machine gun and he does indeed preach, this is much more a dramatic thriller than an action film.
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Marched right through the TERMINATOR trilogy pretty quickly this week. Obviously there was a fourth (and soon fifth) movie, but this third film did feel like it was closing an arc before the whole thing was relaunched for a new generation. Hadn’t seen this one since theaters, so I was curious to see if it was as mediocre as its reputation says it is, or if it just was the victim of super lofty expectations after the strength of JUDGMENT DAY.
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When converting to Blu Ray, the T2 DVD was one of the few movies I kept the older format of, despite getting the newer one as well. When I started collecting movies, that DVD had the coolest Easter Egg: If you typed in the date of the movie’s titular Judgment Day, then you were able to unlock an entirely different version of the film which was longer. I thought that was so cool. Of course, I only did it once and then never watched it again. But at least it’s sat on my shelf collecting dust for over a decade. So it’s got that going for it. Which is nice.
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I watched THE TERMINATOR two and a half years ago for this blog with the intention of getting through the entire series again. Well, I never followed up. And now that T2 has been on my mind lately, I couldn’t well just go ahead and watch it without seeing the first one again.
While football is my sports passion as an adult, I grew up on Celtics basketball. I learned math through box scores and I played basketball in the family room with my brothers using trash cans and rolled up socks. We would stop to record stats (rebounds, assists, shots made and missed) on a notebook which had been marked out with the names of our Celtics and those of the team we would subconsciously rig to lose. I don’t come to a Bird & Magic documentary subjectively, but then we don’t ever come to any movie subjectively.
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Was able to speed through the first three ALIEN films in swift order earlier this year. Just never found myself to eager to finish up the quadrilogy. I did see the fourth film way back when it was in theaters. I remember being underwhelmed as a 15 year old, and nothing I’d heard since made me feel like teen me was wrong In fact, the bit at the end with the window always stuck in my mind as one of the first times that teenage me thought that something in a film was so implausible that I couldn’t really enjoy it. But, hey, I’m a completist, so I figured I would wrap the series up anyway.
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IDES OF MARCH is a movie I’ve wanted to see since I first heard of it. Coming out roughly a year before the election which would see Obama get a second term, this is a star-powered look at a fictitious Democratic presidential primary.
(l to r) Governor Morris (George Clooney) meets with Stephen (Ryan Gosling), Ben (Max Minghella) and other staffers to discuss national service in Columbia Pictures’ IDES OF MARCH.
I certainly didn’t set out to watch two movies about faith in back to back nights. THE ZERO THEOREM turned out to be a movie – unexpectedly – about faith. NOAH, a little more obviously, is about faith. Interestingly, though, this biblical epic is made by a renowned atheist Darren Aronofsky. That promises, at the least, an interesting experience… right?
Terry Gilliam doesn’t do normal. His ZERO THEOREM is no different. A movie set in a colorful future looking like a cross between FIFTH ELEMENT and MINORITY REPORT, this is one odd movie.
I liked the comedy of Jake Johnson for the year or so I watched the sitcom New Girl before getting bored with it. I thought he seemed like a guy who could carry a decent comedy. LET’S BE COPS is a throwback comedy in which a couple of guys do something absurdly unrealistic. This premise has led to some great comedies (early Adam Sandler like BILLY MADISON) and some terrible comedies (most other Adam Sandler movies).
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