So Lately

So my last blog post was a review of Casino Royale. Once again I'm going to do a little review of the recent movies I've watched. Probably, because it's the only stuff I have to talk about these days.

We'll start with Alpha Dog or as the world knows it Justin Timberlake's adventure in the acting industry. JT's acting wasn't to bad to be honest. Though it's not hard to act like a spoiled suburban kid who's life consists of smoking a few Js, drinking, partying, and whatever else suburban kids do in California. The remaining actors were B listers with the exception of Bruce Willis who had a whole five minutes in the movie. The main B lister being Emile Hirsch who played the main character who's name escapes me. Alpha Dog was a true story and if this group of kids had sex every few hours then I'd say the movie was accurately portrayed. I wanted to watch a movie about some spoiled suburban kids who kidnap a kid. I did not want to watch porn, if I would have wanted to watch that I'd have rented it. So anyways back to bashing the movie. So these spoiled kids kidnap a 15 year old boy who coincidentally has an older brother who owes Emile some mean green. Emile the gang leader who doesn't really do much leading gives the kid to JT to take care. JT smokes some joints with him, drinks a beer or two, hooks the kid on smoking, and offers to let him go eventually leading to a friendship. The kidnapped kid even develops a love life while in captivity with some pot smoking older girls. So the dope smoking, partying lifestyle is portrayed for about an hour and a half. Then Emile decides maybe killing the kid is the only solution, though I'm sure giving the kid back and taking their chances in court would have been better. So one of Emile's pals picks up JT, another pal, and the kidnapped kid. Drives out into the desert. One pal freaks out and stays in the car, JT goes with the kid thinking that the shooting thing won't actually happen, the pal who picked them all up pulls an UZI and shoots the kid dead. Then the entire gang becomes divided and runs from the cops. Eventually getting captured and finally ending two hours of crap film.

Lastnight I went and watched Lucky You. 2 hours of Texas Hold'em with some minor A list stars. Not a bad movie considering what little material the movie was made out of. The main star in the movie was Eric Bana. I spent most of the movie trying to figure out what other movies I'd seen him in. Those movies being the Hulk and Black Hawk Down. In this movie he plays Huck Cheaver a professional poker player. The poker playing and freebird lifestyle kept the movie interesting until his Daddy and commitment issues became the main part of the story. The movie consists of multiple poker games, a romance with Billie Offer(Drew Barrymore), many awkward situations with his old man(Robert Redford), and many attempts at finding tons of money to play poker. The movie ends when he lets his old man win in the World Championship of Poker, he finally makes his love life work, and his issues with Daddy are cleared up.