John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Jane Got a Gun

janegotagunBecky and I went to see the new movie Jane Got a Gun at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO on opening day. The Fandango website at Jane Got a Gun describes the movie as follows…

“In the Old West, Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) must recruit the help of gunslinger and former lover Dan Front (Joel Edgerton) to protect her current husband Bill (Noah Emmerich) from an outlaw gang led by the relentless Colin McCann (Ewan McGregor). Directed by Gavin O’Connor…”

The Review:  Jane Got a Gun is a classic Western starring Natalie Portman as a woman who is living in a society where women are clearly second class citizens.  Her character has lived a life of hardship after her true love has gone off to war and left her alone to fend for herself.  She has a daughter and before you know it she is in a world where a beautiful woman can be used and abused by men.  Her character is continually in a desperate situation throughout the film as an outlaw gan is trying to hunt her and her husband down.

It’s a strange flick and it’s hard to watch at times because this woman’s life is pretty miserable as she settles time and again striving for that early American dream.  The movie will definitely make you appreciate living in America today with our modern conveniences, but it didn’t really do much for Becky or me beyond that since it moved pretty slow.

The movie has her character in very challenging situations and at times it is disturbing since you could see where it could be true to life in the Old West.  It made me think that life really sucked back in those days.  It is getting good reviews, but it was just a little too boring for too much of the film.  I guess we had higher expectations than what it delivered, so we are rating this one a rental.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Finest Hours

finesthoursBecky and I went to see the new movie Finest Hours at the AMC Theater in Highlands Ranch, CO last week. The Fandango website at Finest Hours describes the movie as follows…

“This docudrama depicts the incredible true story of a daring Coast Guard rescue operation off of Cape Cod during a ferocious storm in the winter of 1952. When an oil tanker splits in half, trapping its crew aboard the sinking vessel, four brave Guardsmen set out to save them. Craig Gillespie directed this adventure drama, which stars Chris Pine, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana..”

The Review:  The Finest Hours is the story of the most daring Coast Guard rescue operation in history during a monster winter storm of 1952 in a small boat in giant waves.  Becky and I had the opportunity to watch a 9News report here in Denver featuring the remaining survivor who was involved in this rescue and this story is really incredible.

The movie is great because the story is great and it shows the true grit of some of our older generations, who would put their lives on the line to save others.  There is a line in the film where Chris Pine’s character basically says that the Coast Guard tells their people that they have to go out, but it doesn’t say that they have to come back in.  That was a pretty amazing statement about the character of the men and women who serve in the United States Coast Guard and our Military because it’s true.

What these men did was exactly that and went into an impossible situation when others would have figured out a way to save their own skin and all the men on that oil tanker would have died.  The survivor interviewed on the 9News story pointed out that many of the men who were saved got married and went on to have families.  Those people wouldn’t have been born and lived had these men not been willing to put their lives on the line.  When you see this movie it will make you wonder how these people could have possibly survived.  It’s a fantastic story of American heroism.

Becky and I both really liked this movie and though it was a Don’t Miss It and Worth The Trip.

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

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Hail, Caesar!

hailcaesarBecky and I went to see Hail, Caesar last week with our friends Hope and Chris at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO last week.  The Fandango website at Hail, Caesar describes the movie as follows…

“Slick Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is pressed into action when superstar actor Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) is kidnapped and held for ransom by a mysterious group. Mannix races to quietly collect the ransom money without gossip columnists Thessaly and Thora Thacker (Tilda Swinton in a dual role) catching wind of the scandal. Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Jonah Hill, Frances McDormand, and Channing Tatum co-star in this comedy set in Hollywood’s golden age. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.”

The Review:  Hail, Caesar has an all star cast, including Josh Brolin,, George Clooney and a host of others, but that is the problem with this film.  There are so many movie stars that each character only gets about five minutes of time on the screen, so the movie jumps around to fit everyone into a small skit within this quirky movie.

The acting is good in this movie and there are some really good scenes, like a wild dance scene with Channing Tatum that is entertaining, but the overall story of the movie is pretty weak and it’s just way to whacky.  The film is a movie behind the movies with the main character played by Josh Brolin trying to deal with all the craziness of managing Hollywood movie stars and their personal nonsense.  This made the film pretty funny, but it jumped from one character to the next to the next to the next and before you knew it you were watching a boring movie.

I probably liked it the most of the four of us and that isn’t saying much because I am rating this one a rental, so you should just wait until it comes out on video or Netflix.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Dirty Grandpa

dirtygrandpaBecky and I went to see the movie Dirty Grandpa at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO last week. The Fandango website at Dirty Grandpa is describes the movie as follows…

“Straight-laced lawyer Jason (Zac Efron) goes on a road trip to Daytona Beach with his horndog grandfather Dick (Robert De Niro), who was recently widowed and is eager to party hard on spring break now that he’s a single man. Along the way, Dick prods Jason to let loose and have fun, and tries to convince him that he shouldn’t get married to his controlling fiancée (Julianne Hough)…”

The Review:  Dirty Grandpa has to be one of the worst movies we have seen in quite sometime..  It opens up with Robert De Niro watching porn naked and having his own party and then went down from there.  If you can imagine?  We were kind of shocked that he would be willing to play in this role.  Is he really that desperate of an actor now?

The jokes are stupid the movie has a few times that it is funny, but most of the time it was just ridiculous and even disturbing.  It was a boring movie that wasn’t worth the price of admission and several people in our theater got up and left.  There isn’t much more to say other than that you have Zac Efron and Robert De Niro who both are popular actors in a terrible movie that could have been funny.  Instead this movie was really just crude and really stupid.

This is definitely a movie that you don’t want to waste your time seeing.

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

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi

13hoursBecky and I went to see the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi at the AMC Theater in Castle Rock, CO. The Fandango website at 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is describes the movie as follows…

“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is an action thriller based on the 2014 non-fiction book written by journalist Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team. The film depicts the harrowing true story of the attack on a U.S. embassy outpost in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, which killed four Americans (including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens). After the assault begins, an ex-military security team are tasked with protecting a covert CIA base approximately a mile from the outpost. Directed by Michael Bay, the film stars John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, and Pablo Schreiber…”

The Review:  In the movie, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson’s character is famous for saying, “The Truth?  You want the truth?  You can’t handle the truth.” to Tom Cruise’s character, while on the witness stand.  In this film, you will discover why the many of the American people can’t handle the truth about what happens in parts of the world to protect America’s interests. There are tremendous risks in parts of the world where America is not welcome and Benghazi, Libya under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was one of them.  I am going to have to get a little political in this review because I remember when this happened and what we were told by the White House.

This film shows how several former Navy Seals and special forces former military men were working to protect the CIA as contractors, when all hell broke loose and the U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens lost his life.  There was no support from the United States for apparently political reasons or because of incompetence that cost American lives.  This movie shows the true story of what really transpired from the people who were actually there, but once again Hollywood took liberties to protect political interests.

The film didn’t discuss how Hillary Clinton was in charge of this fiasco.  It leaves out how her and President Obama sold the American people that it was all about an anti-muslim video that created a Muslim protest in Benghazi on the anniversary of September 11th.  That was really disappointing about the film because you left wondering if Hillary Clinton paid to have the facts about what she did withheld from the film now that she is running for President of the United States.

There is a level of incompetence that is shown in this film with nobody in the United States military responding to the crisis that is unbelievable and will make you angry.  It’s hard to tell your kids to join the military today, knowing that Washington doesn’t support our people anymore other than with lip services, but will leave our citizens to die in order to protect their own political interests.  It is pathetic.  These “secret soldiers” had to hold off a small army to save the lives of others and they really didn’t have to do it as civilians.

There is some very interesting dialogue in the movie, such as when the CIA Chief bashes these military guys and makes a point to tell them how he went to Harvard implying how stupid they are.  Later he thanks them for saving his life and that put things in perspective.  The movie is really well done and what these guys did was nothing short of incredible.  We really enjoyed it and thought it was one of the best films we had seen all year.

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

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of The Revenant

therevenantBecky and I went to see the movie The Revenant at the Regal Cinema in Lone Tree, CO tonight with our friends Tammy and Bruce. The Fandango website at The Revenant describes the movie as follows…

“In 1820s America, frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) joins a pelt-gathering expedition along with his teenage son Hawk (Forrest Goodluck). When attacks by Arikara Indians claim the lives of many of the men in the party, Glass leads a small group on a new path back to a U.S. fort. While attempting to hunt game on the journey, Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear and horribly wounded. Assumed he’ll be dead soon, Glass is left under the care of roughneck John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), and the young and inexperienced Jim Bridger (Will Poulter) as Hawk watches on in horror. Fitzgerald betrays Glass and leaves him for dead, alone and unarmed. Glass nurses himself back to health and charts a course of revenge. Alejandro González Iñárritu directed this pulse-pounding epic…”

The Review:  Leonardo DiCaprio should win an Oscar for his role in this film.  His acting is amazing, even if for much of the film he doesn’t say anything and a bit like Tom Hanks character in the movie Castaway where he is alone most of the time.  This movie has some of the best cinematography I’ve seen in a film in a long time and speaking of long, this film is really long!  It is not politically correct by any stretch, which is refreshing because early America was not politically correct.  The film shows how the Native American tribes were not all nice guys, like so many want to portray today.  The Sioux killed the Pawnee the same way that the French and Americans killed the Sioux and other tribes, along with one another.  It was everyone against everyone in a fight for survival and territory.  The reality that the Native Americans were not all friendly to one another, but in fact were just as brutal as the American settlers.  Which you definitely do not see very often in movies, unless you are watching a documentary.

I think that is one of the great aspects of this movie is that early American history was worse than an episode of Naked and Afraid. It is easy to forget and just be thankful to have a warm roof over your head.  There is a scene early on where Hugh Glass, played by DiCaprio, is mauled by a grizzly bear and it is incredible and hard to watch.  The movie is just amazing in its realism.  It’s slow at times, but the will to live and survive and what this man endures is amazing.

The Director should win an award for this movie too, along with Tom Hardy who was awesome as well.  This film shows how low the life expectancy actually was for many of the traders living in the wild frontier.  Especially, in places like Colorado where you could freeze to death, be killed by wildlife or murdered by your fellow man.  The movie will really make you appreciate that we do not have to endure the challenges that the first settlers had to go through colonizing America today.  We have other challenges of course, but someone or some animal isn’t trying to kill you when you go out for a run in your neighborhood.

In the Hollywood world of ridiculous special effects and completely unrealistic action films or just plain stupid movies, it was refreshing to have a film that was so realistic and so well done.  The word revenant means “a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.“, which is a really clever movie title.  We all really liked it and Becky and I thought it was a Don’t Miss It.  I am not sure what Tammy thought, but I think she liked it and I know Bruce really liked it.  It is disturbing at times, but it’s definitely a don’t miss it in our opinion.

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

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Point Break

pointbreakposterBecky and I went to see the movie Point Break at the Regal Cinema in Lone Tree, CO tonight with our boys Conroy and Corban. The Fandango website at Point Break describes the movie as follows…

“Undercover FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) infiltrates a group of extreme athletes who are using their specialized skills to pull off a series of complex crimes. This action thriller is a remake of the 1991 cult hit of the same name, and features a number of real-life extreme athletes performing the stunts, which include free rock climbing, wingsuit flying, and motocross riding…”

The Review:  The original Point Break was a great flick, one of my favorites, so I had high hopes for this new release of the cult classic.  I read a few reviews that were not very good, but we wanted to see it anyway.  We went to see it and I had mixed emotions about if it would be any good compared to the original.  This version was not nearly as good at the original, since it went from a few adrenaline surfers looking for a huge wave and robbing banks to a quest for an environmental corporate retaliation.

The original made the bad guy bank robbers out to be surfers looking for an endless Summer with a surfing break, which is the whole idea of the name point break.  This new version is about a quest to do eight different extreme sport challenges to achieve nirvana or reach your breaking point and taking out corporations in the process, as a way of giving back to the Earth.  The extreme sports are cool, but there isn’t much substance to the film like the original and they almost make the bad guys out to be good guys, which detracted from the film.  Even the FBI agent of Johnny Utah is not officially in the FBI and apparently good at every extreme sport imaginable.  It was a bit ridiculous.  Contrast that with the original where he had to learn how to surf and Bodie and his girlfriend taught him how.

We still liked it, but it wasn’t really much like the original point break, so don’t expect to see anything close to the original other than the names of the characters.  It still thought it was Worth The Trip as a stand alone film because of the cinematography and extreme sports element.

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

Conroy – *** Worth The Trip
Corban – *** Worth The Trip

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of The Hateful Eight

thehatefuleightBecky and I went to see the movie The Hateful Eight at the AMC theater in Castle Rock, CO tonight with our oldest son Conroy. The Fandango website at The Hateful Eight describes the movie as follows…

“Bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his dangerous prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) encounter a treacherous blizzard en route to her sentencing in Wyoming. During their stagecoach ride they come across another bounty hunter, Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), and former Confederate rebel leader Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins). Seeking refuge from the weather, the group chart a course for a mountain cabin to wait out the storm. There, they meet four other traveling strangers (Tim Roth, Demián Bichir, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern) with whom they must share the stuffy confines until the end of the blizzard…”

The Review:  I had high hopes for this film and thought it looked like a great Spaghetti Western, like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but I was concerned that it was a Quentin Tarantino film.  Quentin is the most overrated Director in all of Hollywood in my opinion since all his movies move at a snail’s pace as he builds up the characters in the story, only to kill them off with as much carnage as possible.  Which is exactly what you can expect again this time around.  He doesn’t just shoot a guy, he has to shoot them a few times with plenty of blood and then blow their head off, so that you can get the full effect of the murder being committed.

Welcome to the grotesque world of Quentin Tarantino who directs a every movie like he really wants to make a B rated horror movie, like Jason kills Freddie with plenty of blood and guts, while trying to be a Director like Ron Howard with his script and dialogue to captivate his audience.  I’m not buying it and think it’s a pretty lame way to make a movie, but many people love his work.  I keep trying to be a fan, but it’s always the same thing, over and over and over again.  He’s the polar opposite of a great director like Alfred Hitchcock, who could freak you out with a shower scene in Psycho, while leaving something for the person’s own imagination.

The acting in this movie is really great.  The cinematography at times is breathtaking with the mountains and the realism of the blizzard and even the setting in the film is interesting, along with the story at times.  However, it drags on and on and on for almost three hours of getting to know people that are going to be killed in this Hollywood horror film.  Quentin needs to get that shot he knows his audience will love of brains splattering all over a woman’s face because that is quality movie making at its best.  Maybe if you subscribe to Gore Magazine you will love this movie, but most of it is just senseless violence that gets ridiculous after awhile.

After a while, you will just become numb to the killing, along with the movie and you will just want all the characters to die quickly so you can leave, like in that terrible vampire movie he did with George Clooney and Harvey Keitel, From Dusk Till Dawn.  I think that is part of his success is that he always casts really great actors, like in this movie where Kurt Russell, Samuel L Jackson, along with all the other actors did a great job in this film.

At one point, this movie turned into a game of CLUE with one of the murderous gunslingers, actually carrying around a bottle of poison with them in case their guns didn’t work or something.  There is even a narrator who comes in to explain to the audience what is going on because apparently we are all too stupid to figure out this movie, which is really not complicated.  It will have you asking the question, “Which of the hateful eight gunfighters did it in the kitchen with the poison?”.  I almost felt like I was watching Reservior Dogs again only in the Wild West during a blizzard and twice as long, even with many of the same cast members.  We just needed Harvey Keitel bleeding all over the place, along with some of his former cast.

The bottom line is that I was hoping for a Worth The Trip or maybe even a Don’t Miss It, but instead we got a Rental at best and only for the acting.  Conroy seemed to like it the most by the way, until close to the very end and then he started to lose interest in it as well.  I heard people leaving the theater talking about it and trying to convince one another that they liked it.  Which was the same experience for the previous seven films I watched of his.

John – ** Rental
Becky – ** Rental

Conroy – ** Rental

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Concussion

concussionBecky and I went to see the movie Concussion at the AMC theater in Castle Rock, CO tonight.  The Fandango website at Concussion describes the movie as follows…

“Filmmaker Peter Landesman (Parkland) wrote and directed this sports-themed drama based on Jeanne Marie Laskas’ GQ article “Game Brain,” about the potentially horrific cost of playing football. Pittsburgh-based neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith) discovers a degenerative brain disease now known as CTE in the autopsies of several deceased pro-football players, but after presenting his research, he finds himself under fire from the NFL. Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Luke Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Bitsie Tulloch, and Albert Brooks co-star…”

The Review:  I wasn’t really that interested in seeing this film after seeing the Preview for the movie, it pretty much had given the whole film away.  I am seeing quite a few movies like this recently where you watch the trailer for the film and you pretty much saw the whole movie, which takes the mystery out of wanting to see the film.  Nevertheless, Becky and I decided to go and catch this new movie based on a true story about a doctor who took on the NFL to expose their deception concerning concussions in football.

Concussion stars Will Smith as the doctor from Nigeria, who the NFL went out of their way to discredit for his research on a famous NFL player after his death.  The story is really amazing because of the fact that the doctor spent his own money to do the autopsies on the players and spent countless hours researching what happened to these NFL hero’s.  The NFL denied his research and the player’s deaths from brain trauma out of fear, rather than trying to actually prevent the problem and found a solution to the problem for these men.  The movie was really well done, with quality acting and directing.  It doesn’t paint the NFL and their owners in very good light, but it’s an interesting story even if you’re not a football fan.

We both liked it and even Becky thought it was a Don’t Miss It and she is not a football fan.

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

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John & Becky’s Movie Review Of Joy

joyBecky and I went to see the movie JOY at the AMC theater near Redondo Beach, CA on Friday for Christmas with Conroy, Corban and Bianca before taking a flight back to Denver, CO. The Fandango website at JOY describes the movie as follows…

“Biopic of entrepreneur Joy Mangano (Jennifer Lawrence), a divorced mother of two who risks her life’s savings to produce and market her invention, the Miracle Mop. Joy faces opposition from her dysfunctional family, including her father Rudy (Robert De Niro), as they meddle in her burgeoning business. But when the head of the newly founded QVC network (Bradley Cooper) gives her a chance to sell her product on live TV, the Miracle Mop becomes a household name….”

The Review:  This is a movie about perseverance at all costs and against all odds.  It’s about a woman who has had life hand her a bad hand with a family that is a bit nuts and continually creates chaos in her life after her parents are divorced when she is young.  She sacrifices her own dreams to help her father who is really unappreciative and her mother who is a whacko and lives vicariously through her Soap Opera addictions.  She has a jealous step sister and a grandma who keeps encouraging her that she can be more than she believes she can, which makes for a very interesting film because it is so real to life.

The movie is based on the true story of Joy Mangano, who is the creator of the Miracle Mop that ended up selling on QVC and this film shows the challenges that she went through to make it happen.  It’s very entertaining and the acting was great as we have come to expect from Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, along with the rest of the cast in this feature film. One of the reasons it was so enjoyable is because things didn’t come easy for her with her family getting in the way constantly, along with other obstacles from other people trying to steal her business.  The movie is very well done and it will have you cheering for the underdog as she tries to break free from the cycle of failure in her family.

We all liked this movie and it is definitely one to put on your list for the Holidays.

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

Conroy – **** Don’t Miss it
Corban – **** Don’t Miss It
Bianca – **** Don’t Miss It

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