Read the Amazon page for this movie to find out more about the actors and plot.
I enjoyed the movie so much because it showed three war vets back from Iran confronting problems that would have destroyed each of them individually. Pvt Collee Dunn attempts to connect with the family of her lover only to discover them helping care for their son's baby from another woman. Sgt Fred Cheaver finds his wife has moved on without him and wants a divorce. Their son needs money to match a scholarship at Stanford. Sgt. TK Poole has sustained a bullet injury that threatens his sexual ability, and is afraid to disgrace himself with his girlfriend.
A New York power failure forces the three to share a rental car together. More importantly their ability to support each other in wartime, comes through back home. They extend love and loyalty that helps each of them through a crisis.
The movie is extremely funny in some spots, violent in others, and freqently very sad. It is well worth the watch, great acting and a script equal to the actors. Friendship ends up sustaining the soldiers in peace as it did in war.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
October Sky (4.5*)
Amazon Link
This movie is based on the true story of Homer Hickman Jr. who was the son of a West Virginia coal mine, one that was destined to close due to low production. In October 1957 he watched the Russian Sputnik satellite streak across the night sky and became inspired to build a rocket of his own.
In doing so he converted three of his friends to work on the project with him, and the group succeeded in blowing up his mother's new fence, and almost did damage to the mine site. His father being the finest and most respected miners, could not understand why his son would reject a living he has taken great pride in. The son is every bit as stubborn as his father and persists against a background of community and school ridicule. The low point is when Homer and friends, the Rocket Boys are arrested for starting a forest fire with one of their rockets.
Luckily some newly developed abilities in trigonometry and calculus come to their help: it was not possible for the rocket to have flown far enough to reach the fire area.
Seldom did anyone from Coalwood West Virginnia ever get to go to college. After winning the National Science Fair all four of the boys went on to complete college. Home Hickman went on to help train NASA astronauts, fought in Viet Nam and is an award winning author.
This movie is an unashamed feel good'er but you can't fault it because the basic story is true. Watch it when you need the strength to have faith in yourself, despite what others think.
This movie is based on the true story of Homer Hickman Jr. who was the son of a West Virginia coal mine, one that was destined to close due to low production. In October 1957 he watched the Russian Sputnik satellite streak across the night sky and became inspired to build a rocket of his own.
In doing so he converted three of his friends to work on the project with him, and the group succeeded in blowing up his mother's new fence, and almost did damage to the mine site. His father being the finest and most respected miners, could not understand why his son would reject a living he has taken great pride in. The son is every bit as stubborn as his father and persists against a background of community and school ridicule. The low point is when Homer and friends, the Rocket Boys are arrested for starting a forest fire with one of their rockets.
Luckily some newly developed abilities in trigonometry and calculus come to their help: it was not possible for the rocket to have flown far enough to reach the fire area.
Seldom did anyone from Coalwood West Virginnia ever get to go to college. After winning the National Science Fair all four of the boys went on to complete college. Home Hickman went on to help train NASA astronauts, fought in Viet Nam and is an award winning author.
This movie is an unashamed feel good'er but you can't fault it because the basic story is true. Watch it when you need the strength to have faith in yourself, despite what others think.
Margot at the Wedding (1*)
Amazon link to the movie
Amazon link to my review
I watched this movie because it gave me something to watch while riding my stationary bike and didn't want to stop my exercise to find a better alternative. What a mistake that was.
As a dark comedy, it is only dark. As a drama there is nothing dramatic. There is no plot development because there is no plot to develop. There is no character development, all characters end as totally dysfunctional as they started. There is nothing memorable in the movie from beginning to end.
There is good acting, but they might as well deliver random monologues of the insane. Good acting did not save the movie.
The characters are unspeakably cruel to each other, and you long for one breath of sane fresh air, perhaps a line like:
* Be reasonable or I'm out of here.
* Don't you see how cruel that remark is?
* Let's not go there.
* How about we lighten up?
If this movie represents our generation then its time for another global flood, and appropriate to stock the ark with everything except people.
Amazon link to my review
I watched this movie because it gave me something to watch while riding my stationary bike and didn't want to stop my exercise to find a better alternative. What a mistake that was.
As a dark comedy, it is only dark. As a drama there is nothing dramatic. There is no plot development because there is no plot to develop. There is no character development, all characters end as totally dysfunctional as they started. There is nothing memorable in the movie from beginning to end.
There is good acting, but they might as well deliver random monologues of the insane. Good acting did not save the movie.
The characters are unspeakably cruel to each other, and you long for one breath of sane fresh air, perhaps a line like:
* Be reasonable or I'm out of here.
* Don't you see how cruel that remark is?
* Let's not go there.
* How about we lighten up?
If this movie represents our generation then its time for another global flood, and appropriate to stock the ark with everything except people.
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