Movie Sunday

Dear Cow-Tipping Space Cadets,

I haven't posted anything for a little while, so here we are. Not much writing recently, just finished reciprocating a review at Zoetrope, an online writing workshop. Also starting to use links because it seems like any reputable fancy schmancy blog is incomplete without some links. Truth be told, I do enjoy the clicking. Who has time to open up a new browser tab and type in a url?

So, what did I do today? Vegged out on DVDs. One of them was Nikita, directed by Luc Besson. It's about a young wayward (near insane as far as I could see) girl who gets a life sentence and then gets carted off to a government program that gives her a new identity and trains her to be an assassin. You know, your average family feel-good movie. It was good, entertaining, and a fun distraction for two hours. It's also better than its American remake, The Point of No Return, due to the fabulous casting of Bridget Fonda as the girl, who is not very believable as a killer and let's face it, looks as menacing as a kitten in a rain storm.

Nikita was good, but not as good as Leon aka The Professional, another Luc Besson movie with a character-named title. The reliable Jean Reno plays the killer with the heart of gold and a young and talented Natalie Portman as his protege.

To round off the movie weekend, I also watched the laughable but watchable Ghost Rider which features Nicholas Cage turning into a flaming skeleton on a motorcycle, cashing in on the Hollywood superhero phase. Also in the fray was The Astronaut Farmer, where Billy Bob Thornton flew into space in a homemade rocket. Implausible? Yes. Impossible? Most likely. Inspiring? You darn tootin'!

And he landed safely back on Earth, much unlike this guy.

Time to work on my jetpack. Until next time.

Matt