I think it is painfully obvious to anyone who might still be checking either one of my blogs in the hope of finding a lame joke about what Batman and the Gordon's Fisherman have in common (remind me to tell you that one later) that I have pretty much failed at putting words on the interweb. So I am going to try to post to this blog regularly from now on and say bye to the other one. When I originally invented sack full of geek, my intention was to inundate my friends and family with nerdy stuff that I thought was cool. Instead, I just posted pictures that no one cared about. No more. This will now be the home to all geek thing, including reviews of movies, books, games, and more when I can come up with more. Maybe reviews is the wrong word, lets try impressions. There we go.
I watched Son of Rambow a week ago or so and I have to say I was impressed.
This movie is about a boy raised in an apparently Christian cult that is run by a group of elders that avoids any of God's love and dwells on a strict set of man made rules to keep them pure. In one part of the story, the threaten to kick out a group of members if they do not burn their daughters record player. I can not word that description like I would like to, so I am going to leave it at that.
Anyway, the boy befriends the local problem child who bootlegs movies for his older brother to sell. While hiding out at his house, the main kids watches a bootleg of First Blood and it blows his mind. This leads these two kids in a quest to win a young film makers award by filming The Son of Rambow!
This movie is a movie about kids for adults if that makes any sense. If you are a child of the 80's that grew up on the cheesy action movies of the time and played war in your back yard, then this movie is for you. I wish my friend and I were as awesome as these to kids are at coming up with stuff to do that is dangerous but awesome at the same time.
The movie is kind of like Goonies in that it takes you back to you childhood. I love movies like that.
9/10
1 comment:
So, I am guessing that the whole time you are watching this, you are wishing that it was you and Andy, right? I can totally imagine the two of you, running around, or should I say sneaking around, getting into trouble, laughing your heads off.
Looks like a good movie. I will enjoy the cult part of it. I always enjoy cult movies... they remind me of my childhood. (in a good sort of way... nothing too freaky)
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