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End of the Spear and He Say, She Say - Movies
Tonight I saw “End of the Spear” and “He Say, She Say” on DVD. I expected both to be boring and so-so. But I was pleasantly surprised as both were enjoyable.
“End of the Spear” was an interesting true story based on Christian missionaries who try to make contact with the very violent Waodani tribe of people in the Ecuadorian jungles in the 1950’s. Through hardship, sacrifice, and forgiveness among other things, the Waodani tribe ends its endless cycle of death and revenge to further their people. That wasn’t a great summary of the movie, but I liked it.
“He Say, She Say” is a musical stage about a little storefront church and nightclub next door to each other in Detroit. After some drug dealers kill the pastor of the church, the deed to the church is up for grabs to the highest bidder, namely, the owner of the nightclub and biggest drug dealer in the city. The church needs a miracle if it wants to still be the light on the block of darkness, and the new pastor might be the thing they been looking for. Okay, so that was a sucky summary too, but it was also very enjoyable.
Oh, and “Disturbia” is good. “Fracture” is pretty good too, but the latter part of the movie got messed up because the projectionist put the reel in backwards. So it was playing backwards and upside down in slow motion. It sucked cuz no one did anything for about five minutes and we were like watching something that didn’t make sense. And then it took twenty minutes for them to rewind the reel and play it right. So then when they started again, there was something missing. We missed a scene or scenes and it kinda didn’t make sense. It seemed like there was some jumpcuts that weren’t supposed to be there either, so maybe the studio sent a bad unfinished version. But either way, it was coherent enough to make sense in the end. But for some reason, I still felt something was unresolved in the movie. It could have been bad storytelling, but it could have also been the bad projectionist or print. So I’m gonna say I liked “Fracture” because both main characters, Ryan Gosling and Anthony Hopkins, are terrific. Hopkins is so wonderful at being the calculating bad guy, and Gosling is believable as the hotshot, but not overly-cocky, lawyer, on his way out of criminal law into corporate law, but stuck because of this one last case. Anyway, kindalike a John Grisham version of “Silence of the Lambs” when I think about it. I have to review it by wednesday morning for INK.
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