Quite a marathon of instant viewing this weekend, between that and removing some exercise videos from the instant queue (how did THOSE get in there), I’ve made some decent progress on the Instant side.
So it’s a combination of mediocre and terrible with most everything I watched, with the exception of 3 episodes of Frontline which were excellent but depressing. So here’s the round-up.
The Blind Side – An enjoyable enough movie to watch, but it really doesn’t hold up to much though. Slick and very Hollywood, pulls at all the right emotions, but in the end is pretty empty, 2 stars.
Pressure Cooker – Documentary on inner-city school’s culinary program, resonates more than The Blind Side, but could have delved deeper into its subjects, 3 stars.
Bluebeard – French retelling of the Bluebeard fairy tale, in the end, I just didn’t get it, 2 stars.
2012 – Just in case anyone thicks I’m a film snob, I will watch pretty much anything, case in point. Ah Roland Emmerich destructo porn. Really, really terrible, 1 star.
World’s Greatest Dad – I remember a Slate article about how this was a terrific, but overlooked comedy. I should have continued to overlook it, blech, 1 star.
Billy Jack – This is a really bad movie, and it’s only in my queue because it got a mention on Gilmore Girls. I’m slightly disappointed, because this had such potential for being a really good terrible movie: villains who we know are bad because they round up and shoot horses, a misunderstood hippie school, a knocked-up teenage runaway, terrible production values, and a very calm, but apparently very violently tempered (because they tell us so), hero who’s a Vietnam vet, half Indian, karate kicking dude. And yet, it just turns out to be a pretty bad movie, 2 stars.
And a bunch of episodes of Frontline which I recommend over anything else that I watched.