St. Vincent
Posted by
Eric
I thought this movie was great! While I
didn’t really know what to expect with Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, and Naomi
Watts as the main characters, I was pleasantly surprised. Murray plays a grumpy, older man that is all
alone with not much money, who drinks a lot, and doesn’t seem to have much of a
future for himself. He’s just kind of “existing”
until a newly single mom and her son move in next door and it starts to change
his life and kind of mess with his normal routine. Along the way, we’re able to see there is
much more to Murray’s character than it seems and there might be reasons why he is the way he is. Whether they realize
it or not, they’re all needing someone and are able to fill some of the gaps in
their lives, no matter how strange it all might seem from the outside. The story was almost deceptively simple - it
can be as moving as someone will allow it to be for them. If you let it in, it'll get to you...
Lucy
Posted by
Eric
I had high hopes for this movie. Sadly, I
was very disappointed! Scarlett
Johansson plays Lucy, a woman who after being abducted, has been surgically implanted
with a bag of something called CPH4 that she is being forced to smuggle. When the bag starts leaking inside her body,
she becomes “infected” with the drug. Once
in her system, it starts making her brain work at levels above normal capacity
and it just keeps increasing and increasing what her mind is capable of
processing. I thought everything started
off well and was making sense, but at some point, it all just became
ridiculous! I was expecting something
like the move Limitless - not for her to turn into someone that almost had
"superpowers" just because she could use all of her brain power. I get that she had changed into something so
advanced that our logic can’t even comprehend it all, but that just wasn’t what
I was looking for, I guess. It really
did seem almost ludicrous to me!
John Wick
Posted by
Eric
I liked this movie alright, but wouldn’t really need to see it again. It was OK in a video game, shoot ‘em up kind
of way. It actually reminded me of a
video game with how much shooting and killing there was scene after scene
through the whole film. Keanu Reeves
plays an ex-hitman that has changed and removed himself from that way of life
and gotten married and started his life over.
After some tragedies occur, something finally puts him over the edge and
brings out his inner hitman again and it is “on” from there! His skills are legendary in the underworld he
came from and he is pretty much unstoppable. Once that switch has been flipped, there is
no going back and you had better not cross him!
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