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Movie Night: Ad Astra

Published on May 31, 2020 by TracieLeave a comment

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Ad Astra. Have you seen it? This movie follows an astronaut (Brad Pitt) who goes into space in search of his lost father (Tommy Lee Jones), whose experiment threatens the solar system.

Movie night has been on hold for us over the past few months. I don’t think that any of us have felt like trying to concentrate on anything for more than a few minutes, even if it would give us the oblivion that our minds are craving. Or maybe that’s just me, and my family just doesn’t want to watch a movie.

This week though we were ready. I knew nothing about this movie going into it, other than it had Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones, and that was enough for me. Tommy Lee Jones is always a favorite in my book and Brad Pitt has hooked me since Interview with the Vampire. Loved the book; loved the movie too. I’ll watch pretty much anything with him in it. I also love Ruth Negga and she did an outstanding job as always. I didn’t actually know that she was in the movie until her character showed up. Good surprises.

This movie surprised me. I actually really liked it. A lot of the time during a movie I’ll catch myself thinking, How much longer is this movie going to last?, but this one kept my interest and I didn’t even realize that the time was clicking right on by. And isn’t that the point of a film? To take you out of yourself and put you there with the characters?

I highly recommend if you want something to engage your mind for a couple of hours with some excellent actors to keep you company.

Have you seen it? What did you think?

You can find all of the other movies we’ve watched lately, here if you are interested!

2019 | PG-13 | Amazon/Vudu/Netflix | Directed by: James Gray

Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland

Music by: Max Richter and Lorne Balfe

Runtime: 124 minutes

Budget: $80 to $100 million

Box Office: $132.8 million

Movie Night: No Country For Old Men

Published on February 1, 2020January 15, 2020 by TracieLeave a comment

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No Country For Old Men. Have you seen it? First thing – I cannot believe that I haven’t told y’all about this movie before now. This is one of my favorites, hands down.

Here’s the tag line:

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

My Daddy first alerted me to this movie more than a decade ago. He even gave me the dvd so that I wouldn’t have to hunt it down myself. What in the world did we do before Netflix and Amazon? We had to hunt down dvd’s ourselves that’s what. Unless you have a Daddy like mine.

Before this was a film it was a book written by Cormac McCarthy by the same title. If you’ve never read one of his books, you need to run to the library today. Just keep in mind that all of the stuff that I’ve read by him is dark. Excellent, truly excellent, but dark. So you may need to take periodic breaks to watch videos like this one.

Okay, if you are still with me let’s get back to the film. I’ve enjoyed films with Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin for years. However, this movie is where I was introduced to Javier Bardem. Wow. Just wow. He is incredible. Especially in this role. We’ve watched this film at least three times in the last year. I know that Hayden has watched it many more times than I have. It is extraordinary.

If all of those adjectives aren’t enough to get you to watch it, it also has Woody Harrelson and he is phenomenal in his role too.

Go watch it tonight and let me know what you think.