Old Man @ The Movies

At my age, I should know better than going to see a movie entitled PSYCHO KILLER  There is no question about its validity.  The film begins as a man with a deep voice is being detained by a state trooper on a highway. As they are talking, they're joined by the trooper's wife who is also a state trooper.  The driver shoots her husband and then drives off as she fires her gun futilely at the car. She subsequently decides to find the culprit and during her investigation discovers that he is a psycho already responsible for more than 40 deaths and you know what happens eventually. This one hour and 34 minute predictable film starring a bunch of nobodies obviously offended the critics because only 11% gave it a thumbs tip, along with 35% of audiences. I suggest you stay home and watch the endless array of reruns of once popular series like MASH and The Andy Griffith Show, either of which might prove to be more entertaining.

The movie I saw yesterday was as bad and as ridiculous as its title—GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON'T DIE. I'll try to explain the bizarre plot. A strange looking man enters a diner in Los Angeles claiming he is from the future and takes patrons hostage saying they were going to save the world, I think. They wander around aimlessly and nothing really happens that I understood, and the movie ends. I'm incapable of telling you any more and look forward to one of you telling me what it was all about. I didn't recognize anyone in the so-called cast, so I'm at a  loss as to what to say next, other than it was an hour and 32 minutes too long. 12% of critics and 35% of audiences gave GOOD a thumbs up, so I guess I'm not too far off base.

I'm back!!! Sorry for my absence. In addition to rehab for my broken patella, my eyesight has been deteriorating (close up), and it was difficult to see what I was writing. I am now a client of Vision Corps, a state and federally funded organization helping the visually impaired with equipment and ideas to help.  So I'm back to writing and have a lot of films to catch up on--several  months worth if I can remember them. And I apologize in advance for any and all typos. My most recent film was WUTHERING HEIGHTS. I never read the book and don't recall seeing an earlier film version, but I seriously doubt if any female author including Emily Bronte wrote a book depicting the sexuality of this film in the mid-1800s. The movie is visually attractive as are the lead actors, Margot Robbie and some guy who portrays Heathcliffe, a laborer on the estate where she lives. Briefly, she rejects him, he leaves, she marries, he returns, mysteriously now wealthy, and they satisfy their sexu...

Am I seeing too many movies or are they just getting worse?  The one I saw last week was just a poor excuse for a movie. It was filled with disfunctional people of all sizes and shapes, including my nominee for the most dysfunctional actress to ever grace the screen or should I say disgrace the screen—Jamie Lee Curtis as the mother of Ella, looking for herself in all the wrong places. The high point of ELLA MCCAY is when Jamie Lee offers her daughter some helpful advice on what to do—scream at me—at which point both women began to scream at one another. It wasn't the best or worse scene in the movie but it will have to do do for this 1 hour and 55 minute too-long movie, which also starred Woody Harrelson who continues to make poor choices for the roles he takes on. Critics gave this film a 24% thumbs up, while audiences favored it with 42%