Ordinary People (1980)

Title: Ordinary People
Director: Robert Redford
Genre: Drama
Highs: Timothy Hutton as a depressed teen
Lows: Mary Tyler Moore reminding me of my mother-in-law
RhynoBot Grade: A

This film is Robert Redford's directorial debut and really what a great way to start. Redford is able to get spectacular performances from every single contributor to this film and it pays off with four Academy Awards for Best Director, Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor for Timothy Hutton, plus a nomination for Mary Tyler Moore.

The basic premise of the film is a family trying to cope with the death of the eldest son. Each family member deals with the grief differently manifesting itself as suicidal depression for the youngest son (Hutton), the over pleasing father (Donald Sutherland), and the emotionally cold and withdrawn mother (Moore). The supporting cast included Judd Hirsch as the psychiatrist and Elizabeth McGovern as the nervous love interest to Hutton, both played very convincing roles.

Realism is a key factor for why this movie works so well. Early in the film we see Hutton out of sorts, tired looking, but as the movie progresses and he begins to let go and accept his brothers death we see a marked changed in appearance and mood. As an interesting side note, I achieved a minor in psychology in college. We actually studied portion of this film in my Abnormal Behavior class as a visual description of suicidal depression and co-dependency.

I really only have one problem with this film and it has nothing to do with the actors, director, or story but has everything to do with Moore's character. Moore's character is a east coast socialite that feels the compulsion to put on a happy face in front of others regardless of deep emotional problems surrounding her family. She is loveless to Hutton's character (all her love was focus on the eldest son), self-center, manipulative, and accusatory (nothing is ever her fault). Urgh - she reminds me way too much of my mother-in-law. In that sense it's a shame Moore didn't win the Academy Award because she did a great job portraying this character (at least I certainly hope she was acting).

This is a great movie, you should really see it.

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)

Title: Dogtown and Z-Boys
Director: Stacy Peralta
Genre: Documentary
Highs: Great archive footage of early skateboarding
Lows: None
RhynoBot Grade: A

This is a great documentary about the origins of the modern skateboarding phenomenon that really got started in the late 70's right here in our own So. Cal. backyard of south Santa Monica and Venice Beach - aka Dogtown. The first half of the film was a great history lesson regarding West Los Angeles. The film covered everything from the hay-day of the theme park, the Santa Monica area had so many theme/amusement parks on the water at one point that it was referred to as Coney Island West, to surfing, and backyard swimming pools. Also, I never realized how much the surfer community was ingrained into West LA culture. Looking at Santa Monica and Venice Beach today you wouldn't think that such a tight knit surfer community existed at our local beaches.

Well this is basically where it all starts. The local surf punks that dominated the "Dogtown" area of West LA beaches were looking for an outlet, something to do, during the day since the surf was only good in the morning until about 10:00 am. They started making skateboards out of old clay wheel skates and planks of solid oak since they were trying to stay away from the rampant commercialism surrounding the skateboard world. They created boards that resembled surf boards and searched throughout all of West LA for locations that had terrain that looked like waves. They settled on four different locations and spent all day in the summers riding ocean waves in the morning and asphalt waves in the afternoon. This particular style of surf skating had never been done before and permanently changed the face of skateboarding.

The original group of surf punks turned skater punks pulled a team together called the Zephyr Skateboard Team and they became known as the Z-Boys. The Z-Boys started competing in competitions locally then gradually nationally. They took the skating world by storm with their creative, aggressive style of skating. They became known throughout the country and started to get international attention. Never being one's to sit back content with what they created they constantly reinvented themselves, moving off of blacktops and into empty swimming pools where today's aerial skateboarding maneuvers were conceived and perfected.

It's funny to think that without these 12 punk kids, ranging in age from 12 to 18 all from poor broken homes, there would be no X-Games, no Tony Hawk, no skateboarding as we know it. This film has some fantastic footage, a wonderful video log of their activities, along with great interviews with the now aged Z-Boys. This film represents an unprecedented look at the birth of a counter-culture that unfolds right before your eyes. It's quite remarkable that someone had the sense to document activities with video while events unfolded.

It's a great movie, you should see it.

Alien Nation (1988)

Title: Alien Nation
Director: Graham Baker
Genre: Sci-Fi
Highs: Innovative idea for a cop drama
Lows: Same old cop drama
RhynoBot Grade: C+

I started to watch this movie when I was younger, back in the late 80's, but didn't care for it back then for some reason. I guess I thought it was too slow. I did however really enjoy the short lived TV series of the same name so I figured I would give the movie a second chance to see if my initial opinion of it would change. I'm sorry to say it has not, I still found the movie a little slow. To make matters worse, since I had watched the TV series before the movie I found myself think that this is just a re-hash of the same events covered on the TV show, forgetting this movie was the source material.

This movie is basically your typical cop drama with a Sci-Fi twist. In a nut shell - alien ships land on Earth in Los Angeles in 1991 (that's funny to see since we are almost 15 years past that now). The ships were slave ships carrying genetically engineered super workers. With no way to leave Earth the aliens must be integrated into Earth (a la Los Angeles) society. So with much resentment and bigotry in place toward the aliens thus begins the cop drama. Detective Sykes (James Caan) partner is killed on the job by alien thieves. He is partnered with the first alien to ever make detective, Detective Francisco (Mandy Patinkin). The pair uncover a drug manufacturing and distribution ring targeting the alien residents, blah, blah, blah, the cops win in the end and everyone is friends. Think "Lethal Gun" but with an alien partner instead of crazy Mel Gibson.

Anyway, the movie is worth a look especially if you have never seen the TV series but skip it if you have seen the TV show since nothing new is gained by watching the movie.

It's an OK movie but nothing you haven't seen before, take it or leave it.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Title: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Director: Doug Liman
Genre: Action/Comedy
Highs: Angelina and Brad
Lows: Angelina and Brad
RhynoBot Grade: C+

This movie on paper should be a smashing success. You have Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Vince Vaughn staring, with Doug Liman of "Swingers" fame directing (also "The Bourne Identity" and Season 1 of "The OC"). But somehow even with all the right players this movie is a miss. So much more could have been done with this movie and the talent of the actors playing in it. But instead it is basically a pumped-up version of "War of the Roses" with much more sexier stars (Jolie, Pitt, and Vaughn instead of Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, and Danny De Vito, respectively) and a hell of a lot more gun play and explosions.

OK, lets start at the most obvious place - Angelina and Brad. Both actors have a super sexy reputation, which we do see them live up to during the run of this film, but there wasn't enough of it. Undeniably there was on-screen chemistry between the two of them but Liman didn't exploit that chemistry or their inherent sexiness to the fullest. Granted you run a fine line here of over doing it but the sizzle factor was more of a fizzle. The steamiest scenes were in the beginning via a flashback of the couples first meeting. Now I understand the need to fizzle since that was the point - there marriage was lack-luster at best - but when they started to get groove'n there was no pop, no bam, no hooooottttness! What a waste. And who the hell has hot steaming sex with their cloths on??? Angelina and Brad are no strangers to showing it all why the modesty now!?!?! All in the name of PG-13 - LAME! But I digress - the duo truly make the movie for the most part. The cat and mouse antics once they are onto each other are really entertaining. The funniest moments between them is the typical "marital bliss" type comments, banter, and hitting. Unfortunately Liman got to a point in the movie where he had nowhere to go. Blame it on the writer, director, or whomever but the finale was lame - common place shoot'em up where the "good guys" can't miss a single shot and the "bad guys" (trained professional killers) can't hit the broadside of a barn. Once again, LAME!

One final disappointment was Vince Vaughn, not necessarily anything to do with his acting, Vaughn is great as usual, but his character is useless. He adds nothing to the story. From what I can tell he is there solely for occasional comic relief which is marginal at best. (Best line from Vaughn though, "We're on high alert Ma', I could have killed you." With her nowhere near the room he was in, you just hear her voice from upstairs.)

I so wanted to really like this movie but unfortunately it stinks. Bad use of talent, nowhere near sexy enough for having both Jolie and Pitt in the same movie, and same old typical Hollywood bullshit writing that we have seen a million times before.

It's a disappointment, you can skip it.

Throne of Blood (1957)

Title: Throne of Blood
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Genre: Samurai
Highs: Arrow filled finale.
Lows: Drags in the fog too much.
RhynoBot Grade: B

I love me mines samurai movies, specially when it's the masters of samurai Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune. Throne of Blood is Kurosawa's vision of Shakespeare's Macbeth set in feudal Japan. But having never read nor seen Macbeth the similarity to Shakespeare's tragedy was lost on me. The movie opens with the Great Lord of Spider's Web Castle under sedge at his outer most fortresses. The odds are against his men but two officers Washizu (Mifune) and Miki (Chiaki) at the fortresses take charge and overrun the opposing forces. The Great Lord calls the two officers to his court to be commended for such a display of courage and strategy. On the way to the castle the two officers are side tracked by an evil spirit that prognosticates that as of that night both men will be promoted by the Great Lord, Washizu will one day be the Great Lord himself, and Miki's son will succeed Washizu as Great Lord. The spirits prediction comes to pass, both men are promoted to higher ranks that night. Unsettled by the spirits further predictions, Washizu discusses with his wife how it would be possible for the second half of the prediction to come to pass. Washizu's wife convinces him that Miki is plotting against him with the Great Lord and the only way to survive is to strike first before the Great Lord has a chance to kill him assuring the spirits prediction does not come to pass. Washizu listens to his wife and self fulfills the spirits prophecy by killing the Great Lord and claiming the throne. Shrouded in guilt Washizu slowly descends into madness, fearing conspiracies and plots against him by his men and especially Miki. Again moved by his now pregnant wife's urging, Washizu sends the order to kill Miki and his son on the eve of naming Miki's son as his heir. Here Washizu's decent into madness is solidified as he is the only one seeing the spirit of Miki at the declaration ceremony. But Miki's son lives and joins forces with the loyal men of the former Great Lord to defeat Washizu. A final confrontation between Washizu and Miki's son is eminent. Washizu's men finally seeing their lord is completely mad turn on him in a final dramatic scene complete with a maelstrom of arrows being shot at Washizu. In the end no one wins, all are defeated, thus is the nature of man as the forest spirit predicted.

This film is not one of Kurosawa's best but is distinctly Kurosawa in imagery and intensity. The scenes with the forest spirit is perfectly creepy as well as the scene where Miki's ghost appears to Washizu. Toshiro Mifune is as always the highest caliber of actor. Mifune's decent into madness is unparalleled even today - it is one of his specialties. The film dragged in spots especially in the beginning when Washizu and Miki were trying to get to the castle. They were lost in the forest then were bogged down in fog and could not find the way. I understand the need for the scene to set up evens later in the final confrontation but I think we got the point after 10 minutes, did it really need to drag on for 20 minutes? That's my only complaint.

Otherwise - It's a good film, you should see it.

King Kong (1933)

Title: King Kong (1933)
Director: Merian C. Cooper
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Genre: Classic
Highs: Originator of monster movies
Lows: Freak'in old
RhynoBot Grade: C- (today), A (back in the day)

Turner Classic Movie channel was showing the original King Kong the other night in preparation for the release of Peter Jackson's new vision of the classic monster movie. So I decided to sit down and watch since the last time I saw it was several years ago when I was a kid. To be honest I found it boring when I was a kid and unfortunately it didn't really excite me now as an adult either. What I did find more interesting now as an adult was the production value of this movie having been made so long ago (1933). If you look at movies that were made in the 1950's the production value of those films did not significantly change in 20 year since King Kong was produced. That means there was a little something special about this movie and the people that created it. King Kong really set the stage for monster movies in general and more specifically the BLOCKBUSTER monster movie. The film had the highest price tag ever for a feature film back in 1933, something like $10 million in today's dollars compared to Peter Jackson's $207 million.

The thing that bugs me the most about this movie and all old movies is the style of acting and the manner of speech. When they start busting out with phases like, "Listen sister we got to get you down to the dock, see. You're gonna be a big star, just stick with me. I'll take you places." Spoken in that silly old movie actor fast talking drawl. Who the hell talks like that? I seriously doubt that people in the 1930's talked that way but for some reason it is rampant in Hollywood from it's inception until about the 1960's when movies started becoming more realistic.

The stop motion animation in this film was interesting - yes it is sooo inferior by today's standard but I'm sure it was quite a sight in 1933 since nothing like this had ever been done before to this magnitude. So to be fair I can't knock the film for poor special effects. But I have to say the two faces of Kong is some funny ass shit. Face 1 below is the long shot, ferocious, "I KILL YOU", Kong. Face 2 below is the close-up, laugh my f-ing ass off love struck Kong. Every time I saw the close-up I just started busting up - hello, not scary, funny as hell!












One final note about a very hot topic in Hollywood right now. Product placement is a huge problem in my mind and in the mind of many movie goers. But in watching this movie from 1933 it became apparent that product placement has always been a mainstay in Hollywood. King Kong opens with a wide view overlooking Times Square in NY. What do we see front and center in the screen, a huge advertisement for Chevrolet on one of the lit billboards in Times Square - product placement in 1933. Granted by today's standards, which have really taken product placement too far, this is pretty innocent but there it was clear as day. At least they didn't try to work the product into the script like they do today, "Look here sister, how's about I take to for a ride in my brand new Chevrolet Eagle Master Deluxe sedan." That would have been funny.

The movie is worth seeing for historic reasons but not much else.

The Dukes of Hazard (2005)

Title: The Dukes of Hazard (Unrated)
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Genre: Comedy
Highs: Jessica Simpson in a hot pink bikini
Lows: The rest of the movie in it's entirety.
RhynoBot Grade: F

The only reason to see this movie is to see Jessica Simpson in a hot pink bikini. So here you go - I just saved you 1 hour and 47 minutes of your life.



This movie is a complete travesty to those that loved the show as kids. Bo and Luke Duke were never involved directly with illegal activity. They never ran moonshine (they help Uncle Jesse's old moonshiner friend move his still once), they were not pot heads, and the Duke Boys were quite smart. This is Dude Where's My Car but with the General Lee.

Jay Chandrasekhar stick with Super Troopers - stop f-ing up my childhood memories.

Avoid this movie at all costs if you have a brain.

Fantastic Four (2005)

Title: Fantastic Four
Director: Tim Story
Genre: Comic Book
Highs: Michael Chiklis as the Thing
Lows: Slow moving story
RhynoBot Grade: C

I vaguely remember watching old Fantastic Four cartoons as a kid (I do recall thinking the cartoon wasn't that good) and I was never into reading comic books. So needless to say I am not what you would consider a Fantastic Four fan going into this movie and that status has not changed after watching this film. Don't get me wrong, I didn't hate this film but I didn't really like it either. I guess that's really the problem, this film exists but I don't really care.

There is really nothing new in this movie that we haven't seen before in other comic book movies, done better (Spider-Man). I know most superhero origins are really far fetched with no base in scientific fact but here is a movie where all the characters are brilliant scientist exposed to a solar flare without any radiation protection and they don't asking the simplest scientific question like, how is it possible we survived? (The answer being it isn't.) Anyway, I suspend disbelief and all is right with the Fantastic Four world.

The story was painfully slow at times, dwelling too much on Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman's former relationship and running tests to change themselves back to normal. It's really kind of strange that for a comic book action film there really wasn't a lot of action until the end. Personally, the saving grace of the film was the performance by Michael Chiklis as The Thing. He was by far the most talented of the actors in the main cast and his performance made me interested in what was going to happen to him. But then he would leave the screen and I would forget about him and stop caring. Another highlight, mainly from an entertainment value alone, was from Chris Evans who played the Human Torch. The constant back and forth between Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm in the early part of the film and then continued throughout the film as The Thing and the Human Torch was one of the best parts of the movie and seemingly most real aspect of the film.

All in all there is nothing to be gained by watching this film. If you are a fan, you will be entertained by seeing your favorite characters come to life with great special effects. If you're not a fan, you will be bored at time, entertained at others, but ultimately you walk away thinking - this movie was better when it was called "The Incredibles". Go see The Incredibles again, it's 4 times more fantastic then this movie.

Dull movie, you can skip it.

War Of The Worlds (2005)

Title: War of the Worlds (2005)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
Highs: Savage Intensity
Lows: Everyone is happy in the end.
RhynoBot Grade: B

Right off the bat I have to rant about the state of re-makes in Hollywood. Seriously this is one of the worst ideas that Hollywood has come up with since thinking it was a good idea to let Yahoo Serious make a movie (if you don't know what I'm talking about look it up on IMDB you'll get the picture). My biggest problem with re-makes is you take a sub-par movie to begin with and turn it into a polished turd that is still sub-par. As you can see from my above statement regarding re-makes I was completely bias going into watching this film. I have to say in this case Spielberg polished this turd so much it actually came out looking shiny with substance.

I soooo wanted to write this review blasting Tom Cruise, Spielberg, and especially Dakota Fanning, but I can't. The fact of the matter is they all did a fantastic job in each of their own respects. Cruise superbly played the part of the edgy, distant Dad that has been edged out of his children's live, by force or more likely by choice (but Cruise as a Long Shoreman, I ain't buying it). Spielberg does what he does best, draws your attention with very well planned and methodical direction then completely unleashes with savage intensity from 15 minutes in until 10 minutes before it ends.

Dakota, Dakota, Dakota - what to say here??? This is the first movie I have seen with little Miss Dakota Fanning but I am already tired of hearing her name everywhere in cinema entertainment. How can a girl so young have so much work? Five movies in the last year with big name actors. Thirteen movies in the past 5 years, which so happens to be half her age. Is it because she's cute - I personally don't think so. Is it because she has charm - possibly. Is it because she has the words greatest agent - likely. But surprisingly one thing she certainly does have, and funny enough it was the last thing I expected but, the girl has some serious talent for acting. Yes she has down pat the requisite screaming at something scary like all child actresses have to do but this was much more. Here's this 9 year old actually acting like how a 9 year old would if thrust into this horrific set of circumstances. This may seem like a minor point but it really isn't, most less skilled performers would over dramatize the part. I really felt a genuine sense of panic and dissotiative withdrawing that a young child would have while trying to survive such grievous trauma. For that I commend her, job well done - you have won this round Miss Fanning.

Before I move off the performers in the film I have to mention a supporting role highlight - Justin Chatwin who plays Robbie the chip on my shoulder, I hate my father because he doesn't care to understand me son to Tom Cruise. This is a role that could have easily just faded into the background unnoticed with no body caring about what happens to the character but Chatwin bring a compassionate spirit to the role. You not only see his emotions in his expressions but you feel there is much more to his character then what is being shown on the surface. Way to own the part Justin, giving it your all.

There's not much to say about the special effect, they are what they are - excellent for the most part (what else do you expect from the ILM folks). I must say though the physical sets were much more impressive then the CGI stuff. The set with the 747 crash was astounding. But the alien design was both hit and miss. A major hit was in the design of the Tri-pods. They were both retro and futuristic but not anymore alien then what you would see at a large public aquarium (very deep, deep sea looking in nature - reminiscent of "The Abyss"). The aliens themselves where rather disappointing since it wasn't anything new, which is an inherent downfall of a re-make movie anyway. I have seen these aliens before in "Independence Day", almost a carbon copy of the head/face design. Granted there were some design changes, they're not exact, but still familiar enough to be distracting.

One final thing I would like to say about the film - it falls into the same trap that a lot of Sci-Fi/Action films fall into and this won't be the last time you hear me bitch about it. I know it's Spielberg and he has a knack for it but why, oh why must we have the happy ending??? So Spielberg wants me to believe that there is this quaint little Brownstone in Boston that is so impervious to alien attack, an attack that not even the strongest military weapons on the face of the Earth in all nations across the world could withstand, and just so happens to house the ex-wife, new husband, in-laws, and mysteriously the son that by all accounts should be dead, safely? Damn, I need to buy some real estate in Boston if that's the case. Come on Spielberg that is just way too huge a sugar pill to swallow.

In the end what this movie has to offer is what Spielberg always brings to the table - you care about the characters, everything looks great, and solid performances all around from the characters that matter most.

Good movie, you should see it.

Talk To Her (2002)

Title: Talk To Her
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Genre: Foreign (English Sub-Titled)
Highs: Silent movie scene is not to be missed.
Lows: None apparent.
RhynoBot Grade: A-

I started watching a movie late Wednesday night on IFC (BTW I love IFC, they show such a huge variety of movies - my favorite is Samurai Saturday's). To be fair I didn't catch it from the beginning but found it interesting from the description as I was scrolling through the channels.

The movie is "Talk To Her" by acclaimed Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodovar. Turns out the film actually won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay but I didn't know that until I looked up information on the movie on Netflix, which I'm glad I didn't know before watching it since it would likely bias my opinion. This film is in Spanish with English sub-titles so anyone opposed to reading dialogue, automatically this film is not for you.

The films stroyline is singular in focus but is viewed from two different angles combined with a mixture of complex emotions from both sides. Two men (Benigno and Marco) are in love with two different women (Alicia and Lydia, respectively) both in comas, how they came to be in comas was revealed later in the film (I'll get to that). Like I mentioned I didn't see the 1st 20 minutes so I missed some of the character development/set-up. Marco appears to have an on-again, off-again relationship with Lydia, the story appears to pick-up on one of their on-again phases. They drive into Madrid for a bullfight where Lydia is performing as a Matador. She gets violently mauled by the bull and winds up in a persistent vegetative state (coma) in the hospital. This is where Marco meets Benigno, a physical therapy worker assigned specifically to one trauma patient, Alicia, who is also in a coma. Marco and Benigno become friends through a series of conversations where Benigno encourages Marco to communication with his comatose love. You start to feel the great sense of emotion (love) that Marco has for Lydia and more so Benigno feels for Alicia whom he has been caring for four years. There is a great sense of friendship that develops between Marco and Benigno as each recounts the story of the traumatic events involving the women they love.

This is where you start to get a creepy Chester the Molester vibe from Benigno as he reveals to Marco that he had a prior "relationship" with Alicia before her accident. Not so much a relationship but more like he was stalking her in a friendly, "I'm not gonna hurt you", I love you from a far, kind of obsessive way. Alicia danced at the ballet studio across from Benigno's flat. He recounted the story of their meeting as he followed her one day from the studio. He goes so far as to make an appointment with Alicia's father who is a psychologist just to be near to her (the office doubles as their residence). After his 1st appointment he sneaks over to the residential side and starts looking through Alicia's room, taking an item - he also sees her naked as she exits the shower and catches him in the hallway of the residential side (got to say, nice rack on that girl). Before his next appointment with her father, Alicia is in a car accident putting her in a coma. She just "happened" to be admitted to the same hospital that Benigno worked at and was assigned full-time care to Benigno and another nurse by the hospital.

So here is where the complex set of emotions come into play. Marco obviously by now could plainly see the creepiness factor in Benigno but is still his friend and you get a sense of acceptance from him despite the awkward circumstances. As a male viewer you being to sympathize with Benigno since there is always that girl you loved from a far but were either too shy or not confident enough to approach but couldn't get out of your mind. He obviously crosses a line.

Well for me to describe any more of the story will spoil it if you want to see it, so let me say this - there is one scene that is a MUST SEE. It is Benigno describing to the comatose Alicia a silent picture he saw at the cinema. As he is describing it to her the silent movie is being shown on the screen. I got to tell you this little gem is perhaps the funniest, most captivating, disturbing piece of cinema I have seen in a while. Well worth watching even if you just skip forward to this part and to hell with the rest of the movie.

SPOILER!!! SPOILER!!!
Well Marco is surprised by another man showing up at Lydia's bedside. Turns out the weekend Lydia was injured she was going to tell Marco it was over and that she has been seeing this guy for several weeks. Marco says his good-bye's to Benigno and continues on with life. Eight months pass and Marco gets word that Lydia passed away from her injuries several months prior. He calls the hospital for more information and asks to talk to Benigno. He is informed that Benigno no longer works at the hospital and is in jail accused of raping and impregnating Alicia. Marco rushes back to Spain to visit his friend Benigno in jail and see if he can help. In the process he tries to find information for Benigno regarding Alicia and the baby.

BIG, BIG, SPOILER!!!
In the end we find out the baby was still born but the birth brought Alicia out of the coma. Marco was instructed not to tell Benigno this information out of fear of what he would do and Marco agreed. Shortly thereafter Marco receives a suicide letter from Benigno saying how he want to be with Alicia in a comatose state. Marco rushes to the jail to tell Benigno the truth but it is too late. In the end Marco encounters Alicia at a ballet performance. There is a familiarity between them that neither can describe but you feel it was Benigno's love that binds the two somehow. You are left with the impression that they develop a relationship forged from the love of the wacko that loved them both.

Good movie, you should see it.

Oops! Let's try this again.

Well I accidentally deleted my previous post but I have recently changed my mind about what I want my blog to be about. I love movies and I love talking about them. I plan to post every time I watch a new movie to provide my prospective, good, bad, or otherwise on my movie watching experience. I would enjoy hearing from anyone that would like to share their opinion as well if it is a movie you have seen - I would love to discuss it. So go ahead and leave your comments if you desire. I may venture into a little bit of TV but to be honest I don't watch a lot of network TV - I do love me mines Survivor!!!

Oh and I may post an occasional picture of my little guy (which is what I originally intended this blog to be about) mainly for malibucookie's sake.

More to come. Stay tuned.