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Weekend Movies
Jul. 6th, 2016 10:50 pmOver the weekend, I did squeeze in a couple of flicks.
A buddy and I went to see "The Purge: Election Year" on Friday night. In a world where the USA allows for one 12-hour period every year where all crime, including murder, is made legal, the poor are generally targeted for attack. An up and coming independent Presidential candidate, whose family was killed during the Purge years before, has made a platform of promising to end the Purge and protect the poor citizens who are pursued and killed. When her competition targets her for murder during Purge night, her security chief has to keep her alive.
It's definitely the best of the Purge series, as it has a real plot, is full of action and drama, and in the current political spectrum, it hits home on some serious points.
On Saturday, I went to see "The Shallows." A young woman goes to a secret beach with a special family significance in Mexico to contemplate her future. She meets a couple of local guys, takes photos, and surfs the waves. When she goes out for one more wave solo, she gets attacked by a rogue shark and stranded on a small outcrop of rocks. The movie deals with her struggle to get back to shore safely without being eaten by the shark who looms close in the secluded area.
The plot is a bit simple, but Blake Lively did a good job keeping the movie going and I thought the story was entertaining, even when the ending "jumped the shark" a bit.
Looking forward to some upcoming flicks in the coming weekends. Summertime is always good movie-wise.
A buddy and I went to see "The Purge: Election Year" on Friday night. In a world where the USA allows for one 12-hour period every year where all crime, including murder, is made legal, the poor are generally targeted for attack. An up and coming independent Presidential candidate, whose family was killed during the Purge years before, has made a platform of promising to end the Purge and protect the poor citizens who are pursued and killed. When her competition targets her for murder during Purge night, her security chief has to keep her alive.
It's definitely the best of the Purge series, as it has a real plot, is full of action and drama, and in the current political spectrum, it hits home on some serious points.
On Saturday, I went to see "The Shallows." A young woman goes to a secret beach with a special family significance in Mexico to contemplate her future. She meets a couple of local guys, takes photos, and surfs the waves. When she goes out for one more wave solo, she gets attacked by a rogue shark and stranded on a small outcrop of rocks. The movie deals with her struggle to get back to shore safely without being eaten by the shark who looms close in the secluded area.
The plot is a bit simple, but Blake Lively did a good job keeping the movie going and I thought the story was entertaining, even when the ending "jumped the shark" a bit.
Looking forward to some upcoming flicks in the coming weekends. Summertime is always good movie-wise.
