Category: Movies

Watched an old movie on DVD – “Air America“. It is back from 1990 when action was a popular genre and Mel Gibson was still young.

This film is nice. It is not an action, it is not a comedy, it is not war thriller or anything. It is a mix of all. There are bits and pieces of everything. It is very light though. It is good enough for every minute you are watching it, but it is not something you will watch more than once or remember for a long time. Unless, of course, you are an airplane freak.

It seems that this movie had a good budget with all the airplanes and helicopters in it. Shooting was done both from land and air and covered a broad range of situations from taking off and landing, to crashing and cargo dropping.

6 out of 10.

Watched “Great Balls of Fire!” on TV. This movie is based on the biography book of great musician and composer Jerry Lee Lewis. One of the co-authors of the book is Jerry’s “problematic” wife Myra Lewis. “Problematic” she is because that is one of the argued over love stories of the last century. Myra was Jerry’s cousin. And not only that, she was only 13 when they married (he was 22). Not to mention the fact that her father was playing bass in Jerry’s band.

This film is all about music and love. And it has plenty of each. The very usual and beaten to death story of rise and fall is nicely mixed with marriage to very young family member. Excellent acting makes it all interesting to watch and lots of Lewis’s music gives some time to think things over.

7 out of 10.

P.S.: I tuned accidentally and didn’t see the title of the movie, so it took me some time to find what it was. There is still a slight chance that I am talking here about a different film.

Having nothing better to do and having no movie to watch I was flipping through the channels on TV. “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” was showing on one of them. I didn’t want to watch it, so I passed. But few minutes later something was bugging me in my head and I couldn’t understand what it was. So I sat down and started thinking. Everything was pointing to that “E.T.” movie on TV, so I went back to the living room and switched it on.

Watched it for 2 more minutes and than it struck me – the face of the little girl, named Gertie, was really really familiar. That felt very strange since the movie is pretty old, from 1982 and I am too young to remember faces of children from movies of those times. And suddenly I recognized her! Yup, she did that thing with her lip that identifies her from the million others… She is Drew Barrymore. And she is only 7 years old. Cool, eh…

Watched “Shaun of the Dead” on DVD.

I am slightly disappointed with this film. It has a few nice ideas and good special effects, but that’s it. It could have been a lot better. Plot needs more thinking over and sound effects were really gross. It was way too noisy.

5 out of 10.