I talked Conroy into going and seeing the new movie NOAH with me tonight at the AMC theaters in Castle Rock, CO. The Moviefone website at Noah describes the movie as follows…

“Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope. Directed by visionary filmmaker Darren Aronofsky.”

The Review:  Conroy reluctantly agreed to go and see this movie with me, after he saw God’s Not Dead with Becky and I earlier this week.  I told him that it would probably be a good science fiction movie, since it’s impossible for the morons in Hollywood to ever make a good movie about the Bible.  I’m sorry, but they’re completely ignorant and illiterate when it comes to the Bible and I was right once again, but wrong that it would be a good science fiction movie.  This movie sucked!  I think even the actors were bored with it and didn’t like it.

Noah turns out to be a psychopath, ready to kill his children because God wants all of mankind dead, including Noah and his family.  That’s really Biblical?  Not hardly.  The guy who made this film was obviously an environmental activist, who has never actually read the Bible.  If he did, he must have been eating mushrooms at the time.  Which Noah does in this movie with his grandfather played by Anthony Hopkins, in order to hear from God   Apparently, the way you heard from God to write the Bible and avoid getting swept up in God’s judgement is to drink herbal tea.

After all, God was destroying the Earth because fallen angels came down to try to help men.  They disobeyed God, but these “Watchers” shared their amazing technology with men that caused mankind to destroy the Earth and kill all the animals.  These fallen angels had really good intentions and God simply misunderstood them.  After all, they were not really here to deceive men, so God encased them in a body of stone to serve mankind for eternity.  They earn their wings back though by the end of the film by asking God for forgiveness, after protecting Noah and helping him build the Ark.  I think the people who made this film have been deceived by them.  This movie was not even close to anything that resembled the Bible, except for a flood and a guy and his family in an ark that landed on a mountain.  Don’t go to see this movie, expecting to see a Bible based film or you will be really disappointed.

I’m not just disappointed that it was a total exploitation and re-writing of the Bible, but it was just really horrible movie making with great actors.  I can’t believe that people actually liked this movie, even the critics.  All I can figure is the critics had to be paid off.  The characters were all insane.  At one point in the movie there is a battle between Noah and the evil leader of mankind, Tubal Cain, but you don’t know whether to cheer for Noah or Tubal Cain because they are both out of their minds.   The battle scenes looked fake with terrible CGI.  Later on, the character Tubal Cain chops his way into the Ark, during the storm and hides out with the help of Noah’s son Ham, who is thinking about killing his father Noah, and the guy starts eating the animals that God put on the Ark.  He’s eating them raw too, which was just absurd.  The only cool part about this movie were the special effects with the animals and the flood itself.  The rest of the time,  I thought we were watching a soap opera  and I heard numerous people laughing during the film, like we did several times.  It could easily become a regular showing at Scientology conferences or Vegan Festivals everywhere with the rock people with bright eyes, much like the tree people in Lord of The Rings.

As I mentioned, I didn’t expect this film to follow the Bible because Hollywood doesn’t know how to do it  It’s way beyond their skill set.  Think about it, can you name one good movie based on the Bible?  The Passion of the Christ was close.  The Ten Commandments was the best, but it’s too old and then The Book of Eli, but that’s not based on a Bible character, so that is pretty much it.  I just had no idea that they would make a movie called Noah and it would be so incredibly bad as what we just watched.  Steve Carell’s comedy about Noah, Evan Almighty, was a better film than this and that was supposed to be a joke.  This version of Noah was painful to watch and we wanted to leave half way through the movie because we were bored out of our minds with lunatics running around the screen like something out of Kevin Costner’s Water World, vegetarian cult like messages throughout, and a Creator and his prophet, who apparently didn’t even like innocent people.  Talk about totally misrepresenting God and Noah.  I wouldn’t want to be in these guys shoes when they stand before Him.  They might end up like their imaginary Watchers.

Our advice is to not get swept away with the flood of hype surrounding this movie.  Run from Noah before you drown in the theater watching this ridiculous film.  It’s definitely a don’t bother and we would love our time that was wasted back, along with our money.

John – * Don’t Bother
Conroy – * Don’t Bother 

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Becky and I went to see the new Christian movie God’s Not Dead with our son Conroy at the AMC Theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO yesterday. The MovieFone website at God’s Not Dead describes the movie as follows…

“A devoutly religious college freshman must debate the existence of God with his skeptical philosophy professor in order to earn a passing grade in this faith-based comedy-drama featuring Kevin Sorbo and David A.R. White. Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper) is a Christian who never thought his faith would get in the way of his higher education. As a result, he is deeply shaken when, on the first day of his Philosophy class, Professor Radisson (Sorbo) begins the semester by demanding that each of his students deny the existence of God in order to earn a passing grade…”

The Review: At the risk of upsetting many of my fellow Christian friends, I have to be brutally honest about this film.  And I do mean “brutally honest”.  The first thing that I wanted to write is “God’s not Dead, but Christian movies are.”.  Why do Christians have to make such terrible movies and get Christians to support them out of “necessity” because they are so bad.  If they were good, they could stand on their own merit.

The critics thought this film was terrible and I usually disagree with them, but not this time.  All the Christians I have met, save a few, think it’s great because the Gospel is being preached.  Sorry, but the Gospel doesn’t need to be preached in a terrible, superficial way that will make anyone with half-a-brain wish they wouldn’t have wasted their money to see your movies.  The only good actor in this film was Sorbo, who played the atheist professor and he couldn’t save this movie.

Like Conroy said, “Dad, I think I just watched that terrible movie Valentines Day, remade with a Christian theme.”, which pretty much summed up this movie.  The movie is supposed to be about a young guy who takes on his Professor about whether or not God is dead, which it partially fulfills and that part of the movie was actually somewhat entertaining.  However, then you jump around to a liberal woman who is diagnosed with cancer, a Muslim girl who becomes a Christian and loses her family for listening to Billy Graham, a Pastor and his friend visiting from Africa who tells us over and over that “God is good all the time and all the time God is good.” while his car won’t start, the wife of the atheist Professor who happens to be a Christian, one of the guys from Duck Dynasty making a cameo appearance with his wife, which made no sense, and we witness the entire movie turn into a convoluted mess.

It then all ends up with the whole town attending a Newsboys concert with everyone living happily ever after.  Come on! This is Christian art and the best that Christian film makers have to offer our whacked out world?  Your audience is just other Christians because nobody wants to see a made for television Hallmark type movie on the Big Screen, other than Christians who want to feel good about themselves for supporting Jesus.  This movie was painful to watch and pretty much ridiculous.  They should have just focused on the conflict between the guy in college and the Professor and actually made a really interesting film, but they are obviously afraid of offending someone. And I obviously am not.

That is my review.  Now for all of my fellow Christians out there who are going to get mad at me as a believer in Jesus because I thought this movie pretty much sucked, I want to challenge you.  Go and watch The Book of Eli with real actors, a real story and a real Christian theme.  That was an amazing movie that the Christian community never got behind because it was “far too violent”.  Machine Gun Preacher that you can read the review of here was another great film that many Christians didn’t like because God doesn’t use machine guns to save lives.  The Passion of the Christ was a great film because Mel Gibson actually put some passion behind it with quality actors and was not willing to compromise and spit out Christian drivel.  Sure, he has some personal issues and needs Jesus in his life, but at least he made something real and Jesus wasn’t walking through the meadows with birds landing on his shoulders, like a princess in a Disney cartoon.

Since this is my movie blog, I have to add that Mel really screwed up on the veil of the Temple being ripped in two from top to bottom when Jesus died and he could have really demonstrated the significance of Jesus death.  The veil was around 60 feet in height, 30 feet in width and four inches thick and no man could have torn it in two from top to bottom, which is what happened to give us all entrance into the Holy of Holies through Christ’s death.  That’s amazing!  The crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans and the Jews (I’m not going to be politically correct here because they were both at fault) was brutal and Mel actually showed its brutality. Why do Christian film makers continue to avoid reality?  Do everything unto the glory of God is the call of the Christian, so stop making bad movies!  Make a movie that can compete with The Lord of the Rings or at the very least Veronica Mars that was crowd funded by their fan base and had real actors.

Where I live in Castle Rock, some Christians convinced the theater to bring God’s Not Dead for one night, so that they could support it.  Why? Why do you want to support poorly made films?  I don’t get it.  So you can text out “God’s Not Dead” to your Christian friends and get them to go see this movie?  This movie is bound for Netflix or Redbox and that’s where you should wait to see it.  If you actually sent a real message to these Christian “artists” to stop being pansies and afraid of offending people with the Bible, you would have far better results sharing the Gospel with the world.  Which is the ultimate mission of these Christian films.  Why didn’t the Christian film community or the Jewish community for that matter (the Bible is a Jewish book) sink their money into NOAH that is coming out, so that the prophet Noah would not be portrayed as the environmentalist prophet?  Instead we get to see “Noah the environmentalist” and God concerned about the world’s carbon footprint thousands of years ago before rain or SUV’s, instead of their sinful nature and incredible wickedness.  It’s comical.  Maybe God wiping out everything with a flood and a boat, then starting over because men were violent, wicked and totally sexually immoral was just too controversial for the Christian community?

Does anyone who makes these films actually read the Bible or do they just wear their “What Would Jesus Do” apparel?   Did you all miss that the Prophet Elijah killed all the Prophets of Baal by cutting them in pieces, after God smoked them out?  That would be an awesome film!  Did you skip over the ten plagues of Egypt because God didn’t look like a “Lover” when He wiped Egypt off the map and killed the first born children without mercy?  Does Job’s plight and the fact that God allowed Satan to kill his entire family not sit well with you because it’s “stinkin’ thinking”? Did you pull out of the Bible that David committed murder and adultery and had so much blood on his hands that God wouldn’t let him build the Temple?  What about how Solomon was a massive womanizer that ended up coming between his relationship with God?  Did you forget that Paul was put in prison, shipwrecked, stoned, beaten and he didn’t get to attend a Newsboys concert to solve all of his life’s problems?  Did you miss that Peter lied, Judas betrayed, John, James and the other Apostles argued and fought, Paul murdered and stoned Stephen, Jesus wept and sweat blood, begging God to take His cup from Him?  The fantasy land that the Christian community continues to portray in these “Christian” films is not even close to what the Bible teaches or looks anything like in reality?

The list goes on and on of amazing stories in the Bible.  Because those people were real, but Christian movies are not real.  They are all the same “Jesus will solve all your problems, so come and sing a song.“, which are just formula based films to appeal to a niche’ audience.  I think we should demand better.  Okay, I said what millions of other Christians are probably thinking, but may not be willing to say.

Go read your Bible and skip this movie or wait for it to hit the rental box.  I’ll be nice now and give it a Rental, but just barely.

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

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Becky and I went to see Non-Stop at the AMC Theaters in Castle Rock, CO last week. The Fandango website at Non-Stop describes the movie as follows…

“Global action star Liam Neeson stars in “Non-Stop,” a suspense thriller played out at 40,000 feet in the air. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the airline to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. The film reunites Neeson with “Unknown” director Jaume Collet-Serra and producer Joel Silver, and co-stars Golden Globe Award winner Julianne Moore.”

The Review: We went into seeing this movie with really low expectations.  We figured that Non-Stop would be on the same level as The Gray, which was the last terrible Liam Neeson movie that we saw together.  We often joke about that movie by saying, “Stare back at them.” which is what Neeson’s character would tell everyone from a pack of wild wolves surrounded them.  It was a very cheesy movie to say the least and we expected the same from this movie.

The idea of a airplane being taken over after 9/11 seems possible, but probably not plausible given the tight amount of security.  In this movie the plane is hi-jacked by terrorists who want to recreate the fears of 9/11 once again.  Unfortunately, the film is politically charged with Hollywood make believe that takes away from the film.  The terrorists are not Muslim radicals as most Americans would expect, since that’s who took down the World Trade Centers on 9/11.  The characters in this film are the least likely to perform an act of terror on Americans, but Hollywood likes to pretend as though reality is really myth and myth is reality.  One of the characters on the plane is an Arab and he’s one of the hero’s in the movie, which was clearly the Director and writers trying to get a message out to the audience.

In spite of it’s shortcomings and political overtones, the movie was better than we expected.  The story was pretty good and the characters and acting were well done.  The movie has several plot twists and quite a bit of action and excitement. It’s predictable over all since you know that the plane is being hijacked.  We liked the movie.  It’s not fantastic, but it was entertaining.  We thought it was worth the trip and it will be a good rental when it comes out.

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

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Becky and I went to see 3 Days To Kill at the AMC Theaters in Castle Rock, CO yesterday. The Fandango website at 3 Days To Kill describes the movie as follows…

“In this heart pounding action-thriller, Kevin Costner is a dangerous international spy, who is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he’s previously kept at arm’s length to keep out of danger. But first, he must complete one last mission- even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world’s most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.”

The Review: Becky and I thought this would be a cool flick with Kevin Costner.  Well, this movie was terrible.  Kevin Costner looked old and coughed almost the entire movie, since his character is dying from cancer.  Keep in mind, that he’s a contract killer for the CIA and he’s dying, but still has this incredible skill set.  It was totally unrealistic.  The acting was good, but the Directing was terrible.

In fact, the Directing of the film was so bad it was hard to believe how bad it was.  It was filmed in France, but sometimes the drove on the wrong side of the road.  They had full sentences where Kevin Costner’s lips were not moving.  They had cars pushed off bridges and people walk away from the car and the airbags didn’t deploy.  The list goes on and on of how poorly put together this film was.  Unfortunately, Kevin Costner couldn’t save it.

The other thing that made know sense was this hot young girl was his boss in the CIA and she looked like she maybe just graduated college.  There isn’t anyway the CIA would put someone who just started in charge of the CIA and work directly for the Director of the CIA.  The whole movie was nonsense.  The story was bad and they couldn’t decide if it was a comedy, a drama or an action film.  This was a waste of time and Conroy went and saw it with some friends and he thought the same thing.  We have to rate it as a Rental or a Don’t Bother.

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

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Becky and I went to see Monuments at the AMC Theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO a few weeks back. The Fandango website at Monuments Men describes the movie as follows…

“Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed?…”

The Review: Becky and I were both looking forward to seeing this movie.  It is based on a true story that takes place during World War II with Nazi Germany setting out to destroy everything related to Jewish culture.  The Americans decide that the artwork needs to be saved and they send in a group of men to get it done, who are known as The Monuments Men.  They go into the War Zone and put their lives in grave danger trying to save artwork.  It is a controversial mission that they are asked to do.

The movie is not fast paced and it moves very slow.  Becky didn’t like it very much because she’s not a big fan of historical movies, but the fact that it moved so slow wasn’t helpful.  The acting was good and the story was interesting, but it was really a pretty boring movie.  It was an all star cast that kind of went nowhere.

I like history and found the film rather interesting, but it was still too slow for me.  I liked it, but I expected it to be much better and I think it’s one of those films that will appeal to a very small audience.  It could have been done much better and should have been so much more relevant had they tied it to the impact that the art has made on the world today, instead of just showing what happened.

Becky was definitely a Don’t Bother on this film and I gave it a Rental because I don’t think that most people will want to sit through it.

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

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Becky and I went to see Her Friday night at the AMC theaters in Highlands Ranch, CO. The Moviefone website at Her describes the movie as follows…

“Joaquin Phoenix stars in Spike Jonze’s soulful sci-fi drama about a lonely writer who falls in love with his computer’s highly advanced operating system. Theodore Twombly (Phoenix) has built his career on expressing the emotions that others cannot.”

The Review:  Becky talked me into going and seeing this movie because it is up for so many awards.  She didn’t want to miss it when the Oscars come on later this year and I really don’t care if I miss a stupid film that the Academy likes for some reason.  I turned out to be right on this one.  This movie is about a guy who lives in the future.  He has a job writing hand written letters for an Internet company for other people, who want a letter written for them, which that in itself is strange.  However, that’s really nothing compared to what happens in this movie.  The guy is going through a divorce with his wife and has a problem meeting women and getting back into a relationship with a woman.  This is where it gets whacky.

He installs a new operating system based on artificial intelligence, that has a personality and is played by the voice of Scarlett Johansson.  He ends up falling in love with his computer and the whole movie is about his new relationship with his laptop.  When I came home and told our son Corban how stupid this movie was and how it was nominated for all these awards.  He said, “You went and saw a movie about Plankton and Karen on SpongeBob?” and then he started laughing.  Then I remembered that on the cartoon SpongeBob that the character Plankton has a wife who is his computer Karen.  Yes, they actually made a movie off of a SpongeBob character and we paid to go and see it!

This movie was a complete waste of time.  In fairness to Joaquin Phoenix, he was amazing in this movie because it was really just him.  Much like the movie Gravity that really just had Sandra Bullock playing the main character and nobody to play against, he was amazing as an actor.  It’s just too bad that the movie was a waste of time.  We can’t recommend seeing this movie, unless you really want to waste some time.

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

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Becky and I went to see Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit at the AMC Theaters in Phoenix, AZ with our friends Mark and Maria last week. The Fandango website at Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit describes the movie as follows…

“To his friends and loved ones, young Jack Ryan (Chris Pine) appears to be an ordinary executive; however, he has secretly worked for the CIA for years. Ryan was originally brought in to crunch global data, but when he uncovers a carefully planned scheme to crash the U.S. economy and spark global chaos, he becomes the only man with the skills to stop it. Now a full operative, Ryan finds himself caught between his secretive handler, his clueless fiancee and a brilliant Russian leader.”

The Review: Becky and I wanted to see this movie and thought it looked pretty good based on the previews we saw.  It stars Kevin Costner, Chris Pine and Keira Knightley in a spy thriller about a CIA operative going after a Russian kingpin, who is trying to collapse the United States economic system.  The story is more of a technology thriller in that there isn’t over-the-top action, which was very refreshing for a change.  It is still very exciting and kept our interest.  The acting is very well done, it is well directed and the story is really good.

Shadow Recruit doesn’t have a bunch of foul language, which was great and it was entertaining.  It’s a smart film, a bit like the James Bond 007 movie as a spy thriller.  We all really liked this movie and thought it was definitely worth the price of admission.  The chemistry between the characters was good and it was suspenseful at times with just enough action.  In fact, we don’t see any reason why you shouldn’t go see this one and thought it was a Don’t Miss It.

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

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My son Conroy and I went to see I Frankenstein tonight at the Regal Cinemas in Lone Tree, CO. The Fandango website at I Frankenstein describes the movie as follows…

“Set in a dystopic present where vigilant gargoyles and ferocious demons rage in a battle for ultimate power, Victor Frankenstein’s creation Adam (Aaron Eckhart) finds himself caught in the middle as both sides race to discover the secret to his immortality. From the creators of the hit supernatural saga, UNDERWORLD, comes the action thriller I, FRANKENSTEIN, written for the screen and directed by Stuart Beattie based on the graphic novel “I, Frankenstein” by Kevin Grevioux...”

The Review:  I couldn’t talk Corban into seeing this movie with us because he thought that it looked stupid.  It turned out that he was right and we should have listened to him.  This movie had so many problems that it’s not even funny.  As Conroy said, “They should have rules that when a movie is this bad it can’t make it to the theaters.”, but apparently a few people really liked it.  Why I do not know?  It’s a movie about the classic Frankenstein monster who ends up in the middle of a war between demons and gargoyles.  The demons looked like something in a made for t.v. movie and the gargoyles looked ridiculous as well, but the gargoyles were the good guys for some reason.  They were named after angels like Gabriel with a reference to Michael and the whole movie was based on a terrible script.

Other than the characters looking low budget, with the exception of Frankenstein played by Aaron Eckhart, the special effects were not bad.  The script was horrible, the directing was miserable and the acting was actually good.  Conroy and I were bored and almost left the movie because it was so painful to watch.  The story was just way too lame and it wasn’t worth our time to see this movie.  It was definitely a don’t bother.

John – * Don’t Bother
Conroy- * Don’t Bother 

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Becky and I went to see Lone Survivor on Friday at the AMC Theater in Highlands Ranch, CO with our friends Mark and Maria. The Fandango website at Lone Survivor describes the movie as follows…

“LONE SURVIVOR, starring Mark Wahlberg, tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.  Based on The New York Times bestseller, this story of heroism, courage and survival directed by Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) also stars Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Eric Bana...”

The Review: Let me start by saying that I’m amazed that there are film critics, who really liked the movie Nebraska, but think that this movie was just “okay”?   When you see a film like Lone Survivor that has real heart and graphically demonstrates the incredible sacrifice of life and limb that real people have made to serve America, you realize how thankful we should all be for their service. Especially, in a questionable war that has been going on for 13 years since the War on Terror was first put into motion.

If you have a chance to see this film, you need to “Go!” because it is incredible.  You will learn what really happened when four Navy Seals were put in harms way trapped behind enemy lines with no support and had to fight against a 200 man army.  This is a movie about real American Hero’s.  The acting is fantastic.  Mark Wahlberg should win an award for his role in this movie and the story is amazing.  Be forewarned that this film is extremely graphic because war is graphic, war is gruesome, war is filled with gore because people really die in war.  Since 2001 – present day the War on Terror: Afghanistan and Iraq Wars has cost 57,614 U.S. total dead and wounded Americans, which is something that this movie will remind you of by making it personal.

Lone Survivor is one of the best films of the year in my opinion.  One of the most powerful parts of the film is when it demonstrated the 2,000 year old tradition by an Afghan tribe of protecting people who come into their tribe.  It was a starch contrast to our society that is going out of its way to destroy Judeo-Christian traditions, after just over 200 years of America’s existence.  Not everyone in their tribe wanted to hold to their traditions at the risk of potential death from The Taliban, but had a few good men not been willing to do it, the outcome of this story would have been completely different.  That message in this movie was very powerful to me.

The language is harsh and it is very sad and disturbing at times, but it’s so well done.  Becky, Mark, Maria and I all thought it was an emotional and powerful movie.  Becky and I really liked Lone Survivor and we haven’t been in a movie in a while where the audience applauded at the end of the film.  This movie is definitely a Don’t Miss It, even if you can only handle seeing it once, you should go and see it.

In closing, let me thank all of our service men and women who put their love of others in front of themselves.

““This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.”  John 15:12 – 14

John – **** Don’t Miss It
Becky- *** Worth The Trip 

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Auto Consultant – John Boyd: The Cool Car Guy

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Becky and I went to see Nebraska last week at the Regal Cinema Greenwood Village, CO. The Fandango website at Nebraska describes the movie as follows…

“Cantankerous old buzzard Woody Grant (Bruce Dern) can barely walk down the street of his home in Billings, Mont., without stopping for a drink. So when Woody receives receives a sweepstakes notice in the mail and insists on making a 750-mile trip to Lincoln, Neb., to collect his prize, it falls to baffled son David (Will Forte) to accompany him. During a stop in their Nebraska hometown, word gets out about Woody’s fortune, first making him a hero, then later, the target of predatory people..”

The Review: Becky and I had pretty much seen everything else at the movies and decided to go and catch this film because we heard how great it was.  We arrived in the theater and it was pretty packed, but we had no clue what we were in for with this movie.  It was in black and white, which we got used to after about 10 minutes into the movie, but it needed to be in black and white because the film didn’t have anything to offer.

This was one of the worst movies that we’ve seen in quite a while.  The acting was fantastic, but it’s a story of some old guy who thinks that he’s won a Sweepstakes and he’s bound and determined to go to Lincoln, Nebraska to get his winnings.  His son goes along with him, who hasn’t really done much with his life and they have a really rocky relationship because of his childhood and his Father being an alcoholic.  The son learns some things about his Dad and there are some touching moments, along with a few funny moments.  I didn’t think that we were paying to see a Rated R, Hallmark television movie in black and white that was about as interesting and exciting to watch as watching paint dry.

I am trying to figure out why so many people liked this movie?  It was depressing, boring, a waste of time and really stupid.  It reminded me of taking a trip to a small town in Iowa or Nebraska with some old guy to visit his relatives, making a video about it that you could post on Youtube and then charge people to go see it?  I guess people have become so shallow and starved for any sense of reality that they think this is entertainment?

I would say this movie is a Don’t Bother and Becky thought it was a Rental at best.  The popcorn at the Regal Cinemas is really good.

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

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