Daily Special: Week 17

Week seventeen saw my two month long streak of media challenge originals come to an end at 120 straight movies. The streak came to an end in honor of my friend John so I could make up for his one non-movie day from last year.

Below are my movies of the week:

April 20

               Vertical Limit (Directed by Martin Campbell) Bill Paxton is a lot of fun to hate in movies. He plays a great bad guy. I had to laugh a bit about the fact that the main characters playing brother and sister are currently stars on CBS television shows.

April 21

               Broken City (Directed by Allen Hughes) The first 45 minutes of this movie I had a hard time figuring out what was going on. Once I figured out the plot it was interesting but overall it became predictable in the end. Russell Crowe's accent was almost as disappointing as the movie.

April 22

               Mr. 3000 (Directed by Charles Stone III) You know what this movie has in common with the Milwaukee Brewers? They are both a bit of a disappointment. Even the late great Bernie Mac can't save this movie.

April 23

               Elon Musk: Bloomberg Risk Takers (Directed by Oren Jacoby) This was an interesting documentary about the creator of PayPal who is also the current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX. One thing I found very interesting was that Tony Stark in the Iron Man movies is modeled after Musk.

               Big Trouble in Little China (Directed by John Carpenter) This was my second movie of the day in honor of my friend John. Last year he tried to watch one movie a day for the entire year and ended up missing just one day, April 23. The movie suggestion for this viewing also came from him.

April 24

               The Bad Boys (Directed by NBA Entertainment) All through high school and most of my early college years my favorite basketball player was Dennis Rodman. I wore his Converse 'Worm Wear' sneakers for the last 3 years of high school up until my graduation day when my mom made me wear different shoes. This ESPN documentary about the Detroit Pistons in the late 80's and early 90's was interesting and fun to watch. My favorite parts of course were the ones about Dennis Rodman. It was great to see all the formers players get interviewed as well as the daughter of the late Chuck Daly.

April 25

               The Abyss (Directed by James Cameron) Watching this movie I started thinking that if it was ever remade Sam Rockwell would be the perfect replacement for the character played in the original by Michael Biehn. With the help of my friend John that thought morphed in to a remake of the movie with Sam Rockwell playing every single character, even the rat.

April 26

               Prometheus (Directed by Ridley Scott) I really like this movie and find it entertaining from beginning to end. My only problem is, it is also very confusing at times. I feel like a number of scenes were cut from the film and had they not been the confusing plot holes would not be so confusing.

               Congo (Directed by Frank Marshall) The worst part of this movie has to be Tim Curry's character. His accent, purpose and overall performance were beyond stupid. The second worst part of the movie has to be the technology aspect of the movie. A diamond powered laser can take out a communication satellite instantaneously?

               The Amazing Spider-Man (Directed by Marc Webb) Marc Webb did a great job rebooting the Spider-Man franchise after the disappointing emo Spidey we got back in the third Tobey Maguire. Andrew Garfield is a much more believable Spider-Man than Tobey ever was too. It is also hard to resist the lovely Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy.

Days Watched: 116

Movies Watched: 197