Today was an awesome day. I got out of work at 10am and was able to catch a 12:30 movie. That’s the life if you ask me. Phil told me he didn’t really like The Matador, but I’m going to have to disagree with him here. I really liked it.
For starters, this is the first thing I’ve seen Pierce Brosnan in since his James Bond days. I think he’s doing a pretty good job. Also in the cast we have Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall and Jonah Meyerson (I immediately recognized him as Uzi Tenenbaum). The story is about a washed up assasin, played by Brosnan who seemingly comes off as a matador of sorts (hence the title). The movie isn’t so much about his “jobs”, as he likes to call them, but more of how he makes a friend. A friend that helps pull him out of the pits of despair when he’s hit rock bottom.
As an added bonus you get to see bits and pieces of a bull fight in Mexico City. Kept me entertained. Besides being just a tad serious and dramatic, there’s also some pretty funny parts in here. I hope Brosnan has some more rolls where he gets to let loose a little bit.
I saw Grizzly Man tonight. If you’re not familiar with the title, then maybe you’ve heard about that documentary with the guy that lives with the bears. The guy that was eventually attacked, killed and eaten by a bear. Yep, that’s the one.
I’d have to say that I wasn’t overly impressed with this movie. I’ve heard a lot of hub-bub and talk about this being the most awesome documentary of 2005. I think I’d choose Murderball hands down any day over Grizzly Man. The movie just wasn’t very captivating or interesting to me. The coolest part of the movie, in my opinion, was some footage of two bears attacking each other. Later on, Timothy Treadwell (that guy), explained to us they were fighting over rights to a female. That makes sense. You hear about those kind of things happening often in the animal kingdon (and in the people kingdom too). Those two bears really tore up the place, and each other. At one point one of the bears was under enough stress to “relieve himself”.
So other than the bears fighting each other the movie was footage from Timothy talking baby-like to a variety of different animals, ranting and raving about what humans were and weren’t doing for the wildlife, and several experts and friends giving their accounts and or stories. I wouldn’t say this was a poorly made documentary, I just wasn’t into it.
Now this is one movie I’ve been waiting to see for sometime. Thumbsucker and Chumscrubber were two movies that I was really pining to see but never got to because they didn’t make it to me.
I’d have to say that this movie was pretty good, just like The Chumscrubber. You have a story about a boy,Lou Taylor Pucci, who sucks his thumb. This may not sound so weird until you learn his age, 17. So people are trying to make his stop and the only person that seems to have an effect on this is his dentist, Keanu Reeves. His mother, Tilda Swinton, is a nurse at a celebrity drug rehab place where she seemingly has a crush on an actor, Benjamin Bratt. His father, Vincent D’Onofrio is pretty distant and doesn’t know how to relate to his son.
This movie reminded me a lot of A Clockwork Orange. In both movies you have a teenager that has a pretty serious problem. So serious that they are put through ‘hell’ to cure them of their social disease. Then, after everything is said and done, we find out that maybe they never really were messed up and everything they went through might not have been necessary. I assure you this is nothing like Kubrick’s classic in terms of content, however, I would still highly recommend seeing this film.
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