Rain Man

SO... having some mild food poisoning that makes leaving the house a bad idea I decided to watch some movies I dug through various $5 bins for that I haven't had a chance to. Rain Man was one that I figured I should see as a movie fan, considering it was Best Picture 1988. I was far from impressed.

It took 5 minutes for me to get sick of Tom Cruise's RAY YOU MAKE ME ANGRY WITH YOUR CONDITION rants and raves that just bored me. It never became entertaining or endearing watching Tom Cruise get angry at Dustin Hoffman. Normally that isn't such a big deal, but it's about 3/4 of the movie, which makes it about as much fun as pouring meat tenderizer in an open wound.

I was far from touched with the conclusion and closure of it all. How did this film win Best Picture? I'm not sooooo burnt out about $5, I can always just re-gift the damn thing or something, but the film won awards? In retrospect it was up against Dangerous Liasons (which you can catch on Showtime whenever you please), The Accidental Tourist, Mississippi Burning, and Working Girl. I guess it was a pretty bad year, but I'd be ashamed to put a stamp of critical acclaim on that thing.

I did watch "The Brotherhood of the Wolf", which I saw in the theatre when I was in high school and thought was really good. I was still very impressed with the action scenes and CGI stuff 10 years after the fact. The movie is in French, which is why you probably have never seen/ heard of it. It is a VERY good film with excellent action and a pretty good story to follow. Of course it gets out of hand at times, but there's a lot to like. The fight scenes are excellent, though the movie does get a bit boring and drug out at times, it's still worth viewing for sure.

I fast forwarded through most of "The Strangers" and thought it was standard suspenseful/ horror movie that sucks. I watched it in 25 minutes, I was far from impressed and maybe that's my fault for not paying much attention to it. For some reason I find it hard to believe that two people with a shotgun and knives in a home can be outwitted and overtaken by 3 teenagers in crappy masks. I feel like a horror movie should be made that's 15 minutes long and the tormentor gets shot and killed on sight, saving us all another hour and a half of crap.

Summation: Don't watch Rain Man or The Strangers, see "Brotherhood of the Wolf" if you like action movies with a plot.