Bad Words: Bad, with Words

This movie tries to capitalize on Jason Bateman's "fame". Bateman is funny, but this is not one of those occasions. The film tries to be funny by making Bateman's character, an angry "genius" who finds a by-law (DODGEBALL style) to get him into the National Spelling Bee. He's a complete dick, uses bad language, and does "funny" things to other contestants. It's a real stretch and tries wayyyy too hard to be funny, or anything. I was hoping for much more, but it's really just trying to use really bad language in inappropriate situations. It would be like watching a dude swear during a church service for an hour. Bottom Line: 4.1 out of 10. Avoid, it's just not worth your time.

John Wick: Murderboner

John Wick wastes no time jumping into the set-up. There is about 5 minutes of character development showing John after his wife dies, he's depressed, she bought him a dog who brings him a bit of joy & sunshine. That dog is then murdered by the fuck clown that play Theon Grayjoy (Alfie Allen (Yup, that's his real name...)) and shit hits the fan. John Wick breaks through a foot of concrete to find his hidden box of murder toys and goes to work. If you watch this movie you know what you're getting into, so it's refreshing (unlike the Equalizer) to just get into it and not fuck around with story/plot/character development. Keanu Reeves might be a bit old because he seems a little slow in some of the fight scenes, but he's excellent as the silent, motivated, driven hitman-type. It also succeeds in not being COMPLETELY ridiculous since you know there is going to be a lot. There's an excellent scene where he confronts Theon (not his real name or character name, but it makes more sense to me) and a gaggle of Russian mobsters into a dance club. It rivals the great scene from Collateral where Tom Cruise runs through the club killing a bunch of dudes and trying to get to Jamie Foxx. Bottom Line: 7.6 out of 10. It's a REALLY good action movie and I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. I'm glad Keanu keeps getting after it in the action hero role since NEO will always bring nostalgia. Don't watch unless you want to see a bunch of dudes getting shot and stabbed.

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

HBO brought the wood on another great documentary about the horrors that is the "Church" of Scientology. I shudder at everything that movie presented about the abuses of power and basis for Scientology. It starts going through who L. Ron Hubbard was and why it wasn't surprising he could fabricate the entire basis for Scientology since he holds the Guinness Book of Records for most books published at over 1,000. Hubbard came up during the depression where writes were paid per story, so he had to write a LOT. This movie digs through interviews with former HIGH ranking members of Scientology, videos from Scientology, footage, FBI reports, etc. It's incredible how much great information they had to merely present facts about how awful Scientology is. You keep wondering how something like that hasn't been exposed, imprisoned, shut down, or at least TAXED. I learned some things that I will never forget. Very interested in joining the upper ranks to try to get my hand on a piece of the $3 billion dollar valuation of Scientology. They have real estate holdings in several countries and in places like Vegas, L.A., New York that are certainly extremely valuable. Bottom Line: 9.2 out of 10. Highly recommended.