In the past week I watched a handful of movies I'd seen a number of times before:
The Breakfast Club
Still great. So many great quotes.
Anthony Michael Hall was comedy genius....,
- counting the number of suspensions Bender is getting,
- being pissed he didn't know thew clock on the wall was off.
- his facial expressions throughout
IMDB has some great comments in the Trivia section for this movie.
Rocky & Rocky 2
Rocky was really great. Still holds up, although the fight scenes were really bad.
Rocky 2, meh.
Stronger
The Jeff Bauman story from the Boston Marathon bombing. Only my second time watching this. Jake Gyllenhaal was great. When he gets brought out to throw out the first pitch of the Sox game I started tearing up. To me, it's so weird to be emotionally moved by a movie. Actors playing roles. It makes no sense to me, so when it happens, I just give credit for a production and great storytelling. Whenever I see an animal hurt in a movie, I just keep telling myself "It's a movie.....it's a movie....it's a movie....it's not real". But this movie made me emotional....maybe more for my love for the city of Boston.
Richard Jewell
The Atlanta Olympic bombing story. (no....I'm not getting any ideas)
Paul Walter Hauser and Sam Rockwell are brilliant. I don't know how accurate and authentic the story was but it was good enough to hold my attention the second time viewing it. I can't imagine being falsely accused of a minor crime, let alone a horrendous crime like this. I tried putting myself in his shoes and asking myself, what would I do if the investigation pointed at me and the national media did that to me.
Departed
I don't know. This was my third or fourth time watching this. I've read a lot of criticisms of this movie. I thought it was fantastic. Over the top on a lot of levels for being unbelievable, but so what. For me it's super entertaining.