Blockbuster
Apparently I get movie coupons from Blockbuster as well as from Rogers, but with Rogers it always seems like I have to take a 7-day rental, and those are always movies that I’ve seen before.
Blockbuster sent me a coupon for “rent two movies and get a third one free”. You know damned well I usually rent ONE movie every Saturday, but now I had to rent two so that I could get the free one.
So tonight we watched The Ice Harvest. We thought it was gonna be a comedy. Instead I don’t think it could really decide what type of movie it was supposed to be. An attempt at a black comedy? Who knows.
It’s about a lawyer (John Cusack) who supposedly works for the mob (according to what his drunken friend keeps saying) and has stolen $2 million from his boss. You never actually get to see how he manages this. But the theft was perpetrated with his cohort, Billy Bob Thornton.
Supposedly one of the mob’s bodyguards is looking for them, and so there’s a bit of killing (with Billy Bob having to kill his own wife, of course? Not really in love with her.). You know that Cusack thinks he’s also going to get killed by BB and so ends up killing him instead. There’s a kind of love interest but she’s the one who actually has a hold of the stolen money and so Cusack has to kill her before she kills him.
It’s a kind of mishmash of a movie. Not unpleasant. Not something we turned off (like Munich, Star Wars III and countless others). But who knows what the hell to make of it other than a time killer and perhaps waiting for something really good to happen, that doesn’t.
The other movies we rented and have to watch now since we’re inundated with movies, are Jarhead and Shooting Gallery. Hmmm, isn’t that a Brokeback guy in there?
That’s one we haven’t bothered renting… Brokeback Mountain. Plus there were lots of copies of Capote. Ya, right. Maybe if they came on TV and there was absolutely nothing else on *zzzzz*.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
What in Yoda’s name is going on here? That was a “no” to Episode III? Ouch, I knew I felt a great disturbance in the force. Out of curiosity, at which point did you turn it off?