Movie Night

So I spent most of the First visiting with family. When they moved on, the Mrs, now able to drive after 6 months of seizure freedom took off to run some errands. I decided to pour myself a drink and watch a movie. I’d recently seen the trailer for the new GI Joe movie, and while the trailer from the first movie heavily dissuaded me from paying any attention to the franchise, this trailer looked amusing, so given that the first film was on Netflix Instant Watch I decided to watch it. Dumb movie, but pure entertainment and stupid action. I set the bar low, and was pleasantly surprised.

The wife came home and heckled the end of the movie a good deal (with encouragement from me), and she asked if The Fighter be the next on the docket. This one was depressing, slow, and after a half-hour neither of us gave a shit about any of the characters, so we shit-canned it for something more interesting. I’d been wanting to watch Hot Tub Time Machine since it came out, and like all of the listed films, it was on Instant Watch.

Five stars! Highly Recommend, it was awesome! We laughed our asses off.

Last up was a “Documentary”: Turtle: The Incredible Journey, now I put the quotes around “Documentary” because rather than the standard nature fare this was more of the Michael Moore-style. It attempted to tell a narrative of the life of a Loggerhead Sea Turtle, and give everything a cinematic appearance by use of staged scenes (many appear to be done in an aquarium tank, using a blue screen, and mixing in stock footage. Also the scenes of the life of a baby sea turtle, unless there is some new studies I’m unaware of) is a bit of a mystery of science. There is speculation that is likely true, but because its nearly impossible to track the movement of baby turtles in the open ocean I was a bit miffed that the speculation was passed off the same as the hard facts presented. The staged scenes were a bit preachy (and IMHO quite unethical given that they likely involved putting a young protected species in a tank of water with known hazards for the sake of adding suspense to a film passed off as fact.

I might say watch it for the stunning nature photography, but even the film wasn’t that good. Sadly more garbage.

Covered some good distance there. I love watching movies!