Making Up For Lost Time
It just hit me that I've only posted here once this month. That's unacceptable. I can do better than that. So for now, this post is going to make up for lost time and cover all the blog-worthy stuff I just plain didn't write about this month.
A few weeks back, my dad and I headed out to see Jason Statham's latest flick, The Mechanic. I still have yet to see the Charles Bronson flick that this movie was remaking, but I'm a sucker for a Statham action movie and Ben Foster's in it too, so seeing it felt like a good idea at the time. Thanks to me and my dad's apparent inability to check facts, we ended up buying our tickets and sitting down in the theater 45 minutes early. Because we apparently couldn't tell the difference between 4:15 and 4:45. It was the first showing of the day, so we were obviously the first ones there. But what we weren't expecting was that we were the only ones there. Besides the employees, I think we were the only ones in the building. I've been the only one to see a movie before, but to be the only one to see any movie at a given time is weird.
Anyway, about The Mechanic. There really isn't much of a plot at all, so if you see it, be warned that The Mechanic is very light on story. But that doesn't mean it's not a bad movie. It's entertaining enough, with quite a few exciting action scenes and some fine acting from Statham and Foster to boot. The thing is, though, that this isn't anything new for Statham. He's always playing assassins or mercenaries or something similar in his movies, and he always plays them the same way. I enjoy his flicks a lot; I think they're a ton of fun. But while I can't fault him for sticking with what he's good at, I want to see him try something different. Maybe he can be the villain for a change.
But anyway, I did enjoy The Mechanic. It isn't perfect, but it's definitely worth a watch. I'll give it three stars on the scale and a recommendation to see it if it's still playing anywhere near you.
About a week after seeing The Mechanic, I attended yet another midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show up in Lexington. Yes, again. I was afraid I wouldn't make it on time, considering that I got there with maybe one minute to spare. But I got there on time, and as I've said every time I've been there, I had an absolute blast. I kinda wish I wasn't always going alone, that I had friends to go with me, but I'm still having fun regardless. The best part of this month's show, though, was the male members (and one female member) of the shadowcast getting up on stage before the show and doing a dance routine to "Macho Man" by the Village People. Outside of having zombies dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" before the Halloween show, this was the first time I'd seen them do something like this. I thought it was a really cool way for them to start the show too, and if they did something like that every month, I wouldn't complain one bit.
And let's wrap this post up by talking about my trip to the movies yesterday. This trip took me to see Liam Neeson's Unknown, which I didn't really have any expectations for going in. I'd just seen the ads and thought a new action-thriller starring Liam Neeson could be pretty cool. And you know what? It is pretty cool. I dug it a lot. It starts running off the rails during the last half-hour or so, but it's still a really entertaining movie. It moves along a rather quick pace, never letting itself get boring or uninteresting. The movie's twist seems ludicrous when you think about it, but you don't really doubt it while you're watching the movie. It's just one of those things where you don't question it when you're in the moment.
I unfortunately can't say Unknown is as good as Taken, but it's still an exciting movie that I didn't have any real problems with. So I'll give it three and a half stars and a recommendation as well.
And that's about it for this post. There's not really a whole lot left for me to add to it, unless you want me to start linking you to all the reviews I've written at the S@TM blog since December. I haven't done a post like that lately, to my own personal shock. But hopefully you've been keeping up with that blog too, so you wouldn't need to come here to go there. However, just so we don't have to worry about it, here's the reviews I've done since the last S@TM update...
A few weeks back, my dad and I headed out to see Jason Statham's latest flick, The Mechanic. I still have yet to see the Charles Bronson flick that this movie was remaking, but I'm a sucker for a Statham action movie and Ben Foster's in it too, so seeing it felt like a good idea at the time. Thanks to me and my dad's apparent inability to check facts, we ended up buying our tickets and sitting down in the theater 45 minutes early. Because we apparently couldn't tell the difference between 4:15 and 4:45. It was the first showing of the day, so we were obviously the first ones there. But what we weren't expecting was that we were the only ones there. Besides the employees, I think we were the only ones in the building. I've been the only one to see a movie before, but to be the only one to see any movie at a given time is weird.
Anyway, about The Mechanic. There really isn't much of a plot at all, so if you see it, be warned that The Mechanic is very light on story. But that doesn't mean it's not a bad movie. It's entertaining enough, with quite a few exciting action scenes and some fine acting from Statham and Foster to boot. The thing is, though, that this isn't anything new for Statham. He's always playing assassins or mercenaries or something similar in his movies, and he always plays them the same way. I enjoy his flicks a lot; I think they're a ton of fun. But while I can't fault him for sticking with what he's good at, I want to see him try something different. Maybe he can be the villain for a change.
But anyway, I did enjoy The Mechanic. It isn't perfect, but it's definitely worth a watch. I'll give it three stars on the scale and a recommendation to see it if it's still playing anywhere near you.
About a week after seeing The Mechanic, I attended yet another midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show up in Lexington. Yes, again. I was afraid I wouldn't make it on time, considering that I got there with maybe one minute to spare. But I got there on time, and as I've said every time I've been there, I had an absolute blast. I kinda wish I wasn't always going alone, that I had friends to go with me, but I'm still having fun regardless. The best part of this month's show, though, was the male members (and one female member) of the shadowcast getting up on stage before the show and doing a dance routine to "Macho Man" by the Village People. Outside of having zombies dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" before the Halloween show, this was the first time I'd seen them do something like this. I thought it was a really cool way for them to start the show too, and if they did something like that every month, I wouldn't complain one bit.
And let's wrap this post up by talking about my trip to the movies yesterday. This trip took me to see Liam Neeson's Unknown, which I didn't really have any expectations for going in. I'd just seen the ads and thought a new action-thriller starring Liam Neeson could be pretty cool. And you know what? It is pretty cool. I dug it a lot. It starts running off the rails during the last half-hour or so, but it's still a really entertaining movie. It moves along a rather quick pace, never letting itself get boring or uninteresting. The movie's twist seems ludicrous when you think about it, but you don't really doubt it while you're watching the movie. It's just one of those things where you don't question it when you're in the moment.
I unfortunately can't say Unknown is as good as Taken, but it's still an exciting movie that I didn't have any real problems with. So I'll give it three and a half stars and a recommendation as well.
And that's about it for this post. There's not really a whole lot left for me to add to it, unless you want me to start linking you to all the reviews I've written at the S@TM blog since December. I haven't done a post like that lately, to my own personal shock. But hopefully you've been keeping up with that blog too, so you wouldn't need to come here to go there. However, just so we don't have to worry about it, here's the reviews I've done since the last S@TM update...
- The Little Shop of Horrors - the 1960 version
- Little Shop of Horrors - the 1986 musical
- Gremlins
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch
- Private Parts
- The Meteor Man
- Blankman
- The Green Hornet
- Defendor
- SpiderBabe
- Clue
- Buried
- The Descent: Part 2
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