Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Movies

totally off the subject for a post, David my somewhat disabled person who lives with me, goes to the library to rent all his movies, for free. they have a very good selection, some good, some awful and every so often a great one. David pulled 3 out of his hat this last week.
The first one was "Just Shoot Me", and it kept me laughing the whole time. The short of it is a hit man who is ordered by the big boss to go to AA because he drinks to much. It really kept me going. Language is an issue for children, but adults should not have an issue.
The next was called "Once". It was a movie about a on the street singer/songwriter who meets up with a female keyboardist/pianist. Do not think sappy here, it was fairly much about this one singer/songwriter putting together a very good music CD. It is based on an Irish singer, who plays himself. Language is again the only issue here.
The final winner is "Gran Torino". Of course it is an aged Clint Eastwood movie and is also very good.
All of these are powerful, well written and not just good, but great... at least to me.

5 comments:

Grant said...

Don't they have any Japanese porn at the library?

I haven't seen Gran Torino yet, but my favorites for this year (in order) have been Up, Star Trek, and Paul Blart: Mall Cop. The last one was way better than expected.

Unknown said...

I always love trek movies, so i do not count them and I saw Mall Cop and loved it, but these 3 movies were outstanding. Far better than anything I have seen in a lo0ng time.

Jeannette StG said...

My daughter who's visiting, checked out Gran Torino, so we saw it (admittedly in-between my blog comments for me). I thought it was a sad movie. Need to look for Just shoot me.

Unknown said...

Jeanette, one might think it was sad, but he started as a very sad character who ended up with friends for whom he gave everything and ended up solving his own misery in the process. To me that made it a great movie.

Strictly Stamford said...

I saw the mall cop and it was funny!
Also just shoot me, that was , interesting and funny. A different take. Not into Clint Eatwood movies. so I'l skip Grand Torino.