Movies- A Review
By Jim Culp
May 21, 2018
I recently saw two modern
movies, both is genres that I love and cherish all the way back to my childhood
growing up in West Texas and Southwest New Mexico. I rarely go to theaters
these days...either because of the cost, or there being too many people there
with children that must have been recently released from mental wards where
they were taking methamphetamines for sleeping pills.
A few weeks ago, I saw
"Hostiles." It is set in the North American Frontier in the late
1890's, and a very realistic and well crafted movie featuring my favorite
Native American actor, Wes Studi. He plays the old chief that a military
officer (Christian Bale) must take back to Montana to die in his own burial
grounds. It gets a little less realistic at the end, but it is nevertheless a
great movie. Being a gun buff, I can tell you the pistol combat in this movie
is more realistic than most...
I had never had the pleasure of
seeing (that I can remember) the beautiful Rosamund Pike in a movie before, but
her performance in this feature is absolutely awesome. On a scale from 1
(really sucks) to 10 (comparable to "Last of the Mohicans" or
"True Grit")... I give it a 6.5.
Last evening, I saw "Avengers
: Infinity War." The movie had a huge cast of characters, and had a
storyline that I thought for a while was going to be a great one. I won't spoil
it...you'll have to judge that for yourself. The same actors played the same
Avengers... and there was the addition of characters from another movie...they
were funny, cool, and dramatic all at once. I won't spoil that one either.
Avengers : Infinity War was
really entertaining...between Spider Man and Iron Man's quirks and qualms,
Thor's stabs and jabs, and Bruce Banner trying out a new gig...it was fun. The
movie's ending was disappointing to me, but that's just me. Of course...
Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, and
Zoe Saldana never cease to warm my heart. The romance of the Scarlet Witch and
Vision is something I followed in Marvel comics for thirty years... I loved
those characters... but I still love them all. On that same scale of 1-10, I
give this Avengers movies a 7.
Well, it's May. We'll see what
a late Spring and Summer bring us.
Until Next Time...
-Jim
