My wife and I went to see Project Hail Mary last night. It was the first time we’ve been to a movie theater in about five years. Between our local theater closing down and the lack of any compelling movies to see, we’ve just stayed home and watched movies on our large flat-screen instead. When our local theater was still open, movie-going was pretty much a weekly event. Even if there was a movie playing we knew little about or had gotten mixed reviews, we’d go to see it. Mostly, we went because the venue also served food, so even if the movie was marginal, we still got to enjoy a meal and get out of the house. Sadly, the …
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The Academy Awards took place on Sunday night and as usual, I went out of my way not to watch. Why is it that so called ‘creatives’ always feel the need to get together, pat themselves on the backs and tell the world how special they are? Possible low self esteem? You don’t see awards ceremonies for plumbers, factory workers or garbage men and I would say that each of those groups do more to benefit society than any of the people that play pretend for a living. It’s not bad enough that they’re obsessed with themselves, but they also believe that their ability to act somehow gives them the right to lecture the rest of us about politics and …
I was looking for a movie to watch the other night and after doing a bit of searching, came across Barry Lyndon. The movie came out in 1975 and was directed by Stanley Kubrick, a man whose movies are almost always interesting. I’ve seen a lot of Kubrick’s movies such as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket and found all of them worth watching. Somehow though I had missed out on Barry Lyndon. I was aware of the movie but I just never thought it looked interesting enough to spend time watching. I checked out its IMDB rating which was …
