There's evil in dem Woods!

Well here's my first blog and a chance to crap on about some movies that I recently had the mis-fortune of viewing.

I recently had to travel to a neighbouring city to gain a better insight into my job by a trained professional. The day didn't start out well, I missed my plane that was due to leave at 7:10am. When I say missed, I actually got there a few minutes after they closed the flight and being only a small plane luggage had already been loaded. This happened because I mis judged the volume of traffic that would be on the road at 6:15am. This meant that I would have to loiter around the airport for about 2.5 hours before the next flight left. I wasn't real cranky about as it meant I could sit down read a paper and have some brekky, until the idiot in the check in counter looked at me a said you have to be here 1/2 an hour before the flights leaves. Wow what a bundle of information he is, it never ceases to amaze me how many people actually get paid to make stupid comments and state the obvious. I mean here I was thinking that you could run out onto the tarmac being careful to dodge jet engines and props throw your luggage into the back of the plane, run up the stairs to the plane, stick your head in the cock pit and tell the pilot where you want to go and that it's it! Thank goodness for the check in guy, I won't be making that mistake again.

Anyway that evening I finally get to the motel room and discover that I have access to foxtel as part of the room package. The movie line up that I chose over the coming two nights was: Ocean's 13, Fly boys, the Zodiac, Disturbia and The Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd had Matt Damon in it. I like him and his ability to act, even though I had never heard of the movie. I'm not going to go into detail here simply because I usually take movies for what they are, I either like them or dislike them. I don't analyse them unless it's a story that really strikes a cord with me like LOTR, or the world of Narnia or even the matrix for example. I have always taken my opportunity to watch movies as a chance to tune out, relax and forget about everything in life apart from the movie and take it for what it is, a movie. A time to stop, my time.

So these movies that I chose benefited me in a number of ways, I didn't have to pay for them and I won't have to pay for them in the future either. I can give feedback to people like yourself on what I thought, the list goes on. Ocean's 13 can I tell I was looking forward to this as I somewhat enjoyed the last two. It wasn't long before I was doing something else once this movies had started. Boring, uninteresting and I really didn't take much notice as to what they were trying to achieve, needless to say they did achieve it in the end, and I think that was to send some casino mogul broke.

Flyboys, this one was something about world war two a squadron of Americans in France, that's all I got on that one. I found it more interesting looking out the window at the rotting building next door to me.

The Zodiac, this movie does not end it goes on and on and on, actually I think it's still running. Matt Damon appears in it, apparently trying to capture a serial murder who goes by the name of Zodiac and leave zodiac pictures about the place as his signature. Never found out what happened in the end, I was to focused on the knitting that I was doing.

Disturbia, oh you betcha, what a dumb, dumb movie. For all it hype you can watch the movie by reading the blurb on the back of the DVD cover. That blurb could not have hit the nail on the head any more square. It's unfortunate and clever that the producer managed to get 90 minutes of film out of those few sentences.

The Good Sheppard, yes it would have been more interesting if sheep were actually involved in the movie and actually filled the acting positions. What the hell it was about I'm not sure but man was it boring. You know people throw good money at pay TV to watch this crap. I would have pay TV at home but not in it's current format. Until such time as you can buy the channels that you want to watch it will remain disconnected from this house hold.

And last but not least, went to the premier of THE KINGDOM the other night, I really enjoyed this movie. Jennifer Garner and Jamie Foxx played two of four FBI agents sent to Saudi Arabia to bring justice to a cell of terrorists, yes it's one of those America always wins movie. But what I liked about it was how it gave you an insight into how the east view the west, and there resolve to destroy and rid the west from their country. I saw something similar on ABC about an insight into there society and how they go about there life. Always interesting to see what's on the other side of the fence.