Becky and I went to see the movie Bleed For This last week the AMC theater in Castle Rock, CO last week .  The Fandango website at Bleed For This describes the movie as follows…

“This sports drama tells the true comeback story of world-champion boxer Vinny “the Pazmanian Devil” Pazienza (Miles Teller). After a horrific car accident, Pazienza is told by his doctors that he might never walk again. Defying their orders, he continues to train as a boxer, returning to the ring and fighting to reclaim his belt only a year later…”

The Review:  Bleed For This is the true story about a boxer who fought for everything that he had and overcame amazing obstacles. Considered a mediocre boxer he had to constantly defend his reputation as a boxer among his critics and promoters.

The character is similar to a real life Rocky Balboa.  All this man knew was boxing and he had the heart of a champion.

The film does a great job of taking the viewer through his life as a boxer, both the ups and downs  His family is very supportive and when tragedy struck him down he had to get back up and decide if he was going to stay down.  After being in a serious car accident his life as a boxer was over, but he fought back and this movie tells his story.

The acting and the story is great.  The movie is really well done and Becky and I both liked it.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant who owns CoolCarGuy.com that is a licensed car dealership in Lone Tree, CO.  He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter @coolcarguy

I went to see the new Star Wars movie Rogue One last week the AMC theater in Castle Rock, CO.  The Fandango website at Manchester By the Sea describes the movie as follows…

“A hardened handyman named Lee (Casey Affleck) returns to his hometown in New England after the death of his brother (Kyle Chandler) to care for his 16-year-old nephew (Lucas Hedges), but his arrival also unearths his checkered past. Soon, Lee comes back into contact with his estranged wife (Michelle Williams) as he deals with life in his tight-knit former community…”

The Review:  Manchester By the Sea is a film that is getting rave reviews.  The acting is spectacular, especially Casey Affleck, who is the main character.  The story is disturbing and extremely depressing.

The story is all about this guy who has a hard luck story and it goes through why he is such a mess.  The reason he is such a disaster is because he’s had a really bad event happen in his life and now his brother has passed away.  He needs to take care of his nephew and he’s not fit to do this on his own.  At least he doesn’t think so and this makes for a very boring movie.

Becky and I were not sure why everyone liked this movie.  It was boring, depressing and a little too real with serious raw emotion about how life can throw you a serious curve ball.

We left the film feeling like we had wasted our time.  The acting was great and the directing was good, but the story was not worth watching.

John – * Don’t Bother
Becky – * Don’t Bother

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant and owner of CoolCarGuy.com with his license at a car dealership in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase or consign your vehicle – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter@coolcarguy

Becky and I went to see the movie Hacksaw Ridge last week the AMC theater in Castle Rock, CO last week .  The Fandango website at Arrival describes the movie as follows…

“Mel Gibson directed this biopic about World War II Army medic Desmond Doss (played here by Andrew Garfield). A conscientious objector who refused to take a life or even carry a weapon, Doss was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of 75 soldiers on the battlefields of Okinawa..”

The Review:  Hacksaw Ridge is a true story Directed by Mel Gibson about Desmond Doss, who was an American Hero who refused to take a life during World War II.  The movie is extremely well done and could very well be nominated for Best Picture this year.

The film tells the story about his life as a child, the life of his father and his father’s friends, who had died in World War I and his brother signing up to fight in World War II.  Desmond also decides that he must do his part to serve his country even though he refuses to take a life based on his religious views.  Which is a very odd position to take for volunteering for the Army during a war.

The acting and directing and the story is fantastic and this movie is superb.  I am amazed that anyone would like this film because the story is incredible.  The fact that it’s a true story is even more amazing.  This is definitely a Don’t Miss It.

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky – **** Don’t Miss It

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant and owner of CoolCarGuy.com with his license at a car dealership in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase or consign your vehicle – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter@coolcarguy

Becky and I went to see the movie Arrival at the AMC Cinema in Destin, FL last week when we were visiting our relatives and running The Pensacola Marathon.  The Fandango website at Arrival describes the movie as follows…

“Denis Villeneuve directed this science-fiction suspense film about Earth’s response to a possible alien invasion. After extraterrestrial spacecraft plant themselves at various locations around the globe, a linguist (Amy Adams) and a theoretical physicist (Jeremy Renner) must find a way to communicate with the mysterious visitors….”

The Review:  Arrival has a 93% good on the Rotten Tomatoes website, but don’t believe the hype on this movie.  It’s a confusing, slow moving, boring film that is about aliens landing on planet Earth.  As if we’ve never seen that storyline before?

Our nephew Sterling had seen the movie the night before and he tried to warn us, but we were going off of all the great reviews and figured we had to go see it.  We should have listened to Sterling who told us it was pretty boring.  That’s the understatement of the year.  This movie is the classic alien film where mankind is bad and aliens are good, but they through in some time warp element as well that was supposed to make it better.  It didn’t.

The acting is good, the story is terrible, the movie moves as a snails pace for two hours and you are just hoping it will get over soon.  At the end of the movie, the guy at the end of our row said it best, “That was a complete waste of my time.” and most of the people in the theater started laughing because we all agreed.  This is definitely one to wait for at the rental box or when they show it a dozen times on one of the cable networks.

John – * Don’t Bother
Becky – * Don’t Bother

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy
John is an auto consultant and owner of CoolCarGuy.com with his license at a car dealership in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase or consign your vehicle – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle! jboyd@coolcarguy.com or Twitter@coolcarguy