IT'S A NEW YEAR

Yes, it's a new year, but just as the old song goes, you can leave here for a few days in space, but when you return it's the same old place. The song is Eve of Destruction and the words aren't exact but you get the idea.
I'm not going to complain right now. Instead I'm going to tell you about some great movies I've seen over the last few weeks.

First, A Perfect Getaway. I was thrilled and surprised about this movie, because of the reviewers slamming it pretty badly, and it was the exact opposite for me. While I was watching it I thought about the first time I saw John McClane at the Nakatomi Plaza on Chrstmas Eve 1988 fighting the terrorists who turned out to be staging a robbery. I'm talking about the first Die Hard of course.  Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn star. It may be a little predictable but they can easily make a franchise out of this and if their is no sequel I'll be as disappointed as no sequel to Eastern Promises.
Here's the point, if I see a movie that makes me forget the bs that usually goes through my head, it's a hit for me. This movie did that.

Spread, the Ashton Kutcher movie is pretty good. He's growing up and saying adult things lately. Good for him. There is nothing worse than wasted talent.  The movie's about a guy like himself, living off older women. It sort of made me happy that I was always short, squat and not particularly interesting looking. Ashton's director and writer pulled a bit of James Joyce symbolism at the end of the movie. While the credits are running they show Ashton feeding a mouse to a large African frog in a fish tank. The credits run while the frog eats the mouse. Is it that LA LA land eats the young people who arrive there on a regular basis seeking fame and fortune or dost I think too much??

The Man Who Never Was, great old  1950's WWII movie about a despicable thing the Brits did to fool the Nazis about the invasion of Sicily in 1943. They take a recently deceased young man, plant false papers on him, float him off the coast of Spain and the thriller begins. It's based on a true story written by the actual British Naval Intelligence officer who concocted the plan. This screenpaly would hold up today if there was a remake. I'm going to buy this DVD and send it to my wife's two English aunts. They would love this movie.

Up is basically a cartoon which Pixar developed to trick you into thinking it's a movie. This movie like WALL-E works with this technology. Up is basically a cartoon/movie for adults. I'll admit when I watch movies, I like to watch them in the dark because if the movie hits me in a certain way I cry. I probably have an extra or a missing  X or Y chromosome whichever causes this affliction. When Up went into a four minute discourse on the main charcter's and his wife's marriage I didn't stop crying and laughing until after the credits rolled.

That's it for this time. Next time I'll get to complaining. We have Sarah from Alaska, the woman in Troy that left her kids in the car that got jacked, the governor and client number 9 (where is he, now that we really need him),  and a host of other aholes and things on my demented mind.

Talk to you soon.