Two recent movies

[madbaker]

We had sneak preview tickets last week to see Jexi, because they closed down our street to film a stunt. It didn't sound like our usual type of movie, but what the hey, free. We decided we could walk out if we didn't like it. Then the wife saw a commercial, and it sounded really bad. I got an e-mail that the city had a waiting list for the sneak preview -- so we just cancelled our tickets.

The SF Comicle's review was dreadful. It wasn't even worth a savage review, just a "this was two hours I will never get back". Clearly we made the right call.

We recently watched Stan & Ollie - a biopic about Laurel & Hardy touring Britain in the late stages of their career. It was quite good but very sad, watching them continually get taken advantage of. By studios mostly, but also promoters. They were comic geniuses who sold many millions of movie tickets worldwide, but they never got paid much.

Comments

[threadwalker]

I remember the Stan and Ollie movie being out. I thought it looked good, but sad. Sometimes I just can't watch sad movies. They take up residence in my heart. Sounds like they did a good job though.