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

“This prequel to the very first Star Wars movie tells the thrilling story of how a ragtag band of freedom fighters — including a former soldier-turned-prisoner (Felicity Jones), a Rebel Alliance insider (Diego Luna), a Jedi (Donnie Yen), and a sentient robot (voiced by Alan Tudyk) — worked together to steal the Death Star’s secret blueprints. Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, and Jimmy Smits co-star in Rogue One…”

The Review:  Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the story before the first episode of the Star Wars sage that came out back in the late 1970’s.  The movie tells the story about how the Rebel Alliance was able to get the plans to destroy the Death Star and the people involved in making that happen.

The computer graphics are great and the story is entertaining.  The characters are much better than the Star Wars that they came out with last year, The Force Awakens and the story is far more original as well.

If you’re a Star Wars fan you should really like this movie.  Conroy and Corban both liked it and they are not huge Star Wars fans, but I couldn’t get Becky to go and see it.  She’s not a fan of Star Wars, but I actually think she would have like this movie because it is more “independent” than previous Star Wars films.

I really liked it and ended up going to see it a second time, so I’m rating it a Don’t Miss It.  The acting and directing are good and the characters are interesting with a good story, so what more can you ask for than that in a film?

John – **** 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 new movie Fences at the AMC theater in Highlands Ranch, CO.  The Fandango website at Fences describes the movie as follows…

“Denzel Washington directed and stars in this adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which centers on a black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh. Bitter that baseball’s color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones. Both Washington and co-star Viola Davis won Tonys for their performances in the 2010 revival of the play. …”

The Review:  Fences is a movie that is directed by Denzel Washington, who also stars in the film, along with Viola Davis as his wife.  It takes place in the 1950’s with plenty of racism and little opportunity available for an African American man, who is trying to get ahead in the world.

Okay.  We went into this movie with great expectations and the acting was amazing.  The problem for us was just about every other word out of Denzel’s mouth for half of the film was the “n” word, which was really annoying.  The story wasn’t very good because it was boring watching this really selfish man craving attention from his wife and children with very little honor for his wife or others.  If you’re getting the drift here we didn’t like the movie.

The acting was incredible and even the directing was good, but it’s for a very limited audience that can maybe relate to someone who was so self-centered that he was lost in his own world.  It wasn’t “entertaining” and it wasn’t “educational”, but it was disturbing, which maybe was the intention of the film.  Much like Manchester by the Sea, this is an over-rated film that wasn’t very good.

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 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

Becky and I went to see the new movie Passengers last week the AMC theater in Highlands Ranch, CO.  The Fandango website at Passengers describes the movie as follows…

“Two passengers (Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence) aboard a spacecraft traveling to a distant planet are brought out of suspended animation by a technical glitch — 90 years before the vessel is due to reach its destination. Together, they must investigate the malfunction that awakened them, which could threaten the safety of the ship…”

The Review:  Passengers is a movie that takes place in the future in outer space as a spaceship is traveling at high speed to a new planet.  An error takes place and one of the passengers wakes up from space sleep decades too soon and cannot go back to sleep.

The film gets a bit strange from there based on the decisions this passenger makes and how another passenger arrives on the scene with him.  Before you know it there are issues with the ship that could end the life of all of the passengers on board.  The movie takes you on a journey through time and space in a unique way that hasn’t been done before.

It’s a pretty cool science fiction flick and it might even make you think twice about space travel and the hazards involved.  The movie is well done and the acting is good.  The story is pretty cool.  I liked it and Becky liked it too.  We both thought it was worth the price of admission.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip

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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 new movie La La Land at the Landmark theater in Englewood, CO.  The Fandango website at La La Land describes the movie as follows…

“Struggling actress Mia (Emma Stone) and aspiring jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) begin a whirlwind romance as they both pursue their dreams in Los Angeles. However, their blossoming relationship is challenged when their careers pull them in different directions…”

The Review:  La La Land is one of those films that when we saw the Preview for the movie we both put it on the of films to not bother seeing.  We’re not big fans of musicals and this movie looked like it wasn’t going to be very good, but we decided to go and check it out anyway.

The movie is definitely a musical, but it’s not like most musicals that are extremely annoying with people breaking into song continually.  That’s not the case with La La Land where the actors sing at times that seem to make much more sense based on the story.

The movie is a love story and it is really well done with great acting, singing and directing. The story was much better than we expected.  I’m surprised that I’m saying this, but Becky and I both really liked it and we thought it was worth the trip.

We were not a huge fan of the ending, but the movie was very good overall.

John – *** Worth The Trip
Becky – *** Worth The Trip

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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