The Crooked Castle
Two movies, a party, malaise, a poker game, and the first Bristol outing of the year.
“The BFG” is beautiful, kind of charming, and REALLY boring. The pacing is both soporific and bad, and no effort has been made of give anyone over the age of eight anything to connect to.
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Eight moderately busy days later, three movies, some rowing, and various sort of hard work.
“Finding Dory” is a significantly inferior sequel to an upper mediocre talking fish movie. It sort of almost developed a soul by the end. Almost. Sort of. Continue reading
One movie, various misadventures.
“Central Intelligence” is a comedy with an odd twist: The comedian (Kevin Hart) is the straight man, and the other guy (Dwayne Johnson) is the goofball. It works surprisingly well, and this coming from someone who fundamentally does not LIKE comedies. The pacing was uneven, and the characters were in some cases broken (from a literary standpoint; broken people oftem make great characters), but in the end, it WORKED. It also played a bit with the Mary McCarthy quote, “We are the hero of our own story.” More of that in another post. Continue reading
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