The Mothman Prophecies

The Mothman Prophecies - in which Richard Gere cares about someone besides himself. Well, some thing . . . its kind of a mystery. So, Richard Gere is married to some woman who can't drive, but is really good at choosing real estate. She picks them out a new house, and after they do it in the closet and see a flying bug, she is attacked by a hallucination while driving, and swerves and smacks her dumb head into the stupid car window and at the hospital she is diagnosed with severe brain cancer and dies. There may or may not be any correlation in those things. Who knows.
Anyways, a year later, Richard Gere is on his way to interview a governor, driving himself at night, and he somehow ends up 400 miles away in 3 hours, in a hick-filled mountain town fighting with a hick with a shotgun. It's crazy, and the nice lady sheriff, Laura Linney shows up and gets the situation under control. Richard Gere finds a mediocre motel to stay at while he investigates feeling creepy in a creepy town. I guess this is based on a true story where a bunch of people reported seeing a creepy Moth Man in this dumb town, and then a bridge collapsed. Ugh, the point of the movie is that Gere makes friends with the hick who tried to shoot him in the middle of the night, and I guess to talk to his dead wife, because sometimes the Mothmen appear as ghosts. Also, they will call you on the phone and know everything you're doing, but they do nothing scary or helpful. It's pointless, also, nothing makes sense. Somehow, the mothmen are giving people info about the future, but it does not appear to be anything useful, UNTIL, Gere is traveling back to a small-town Xmas dinner, and the bridge into town is trafficked-up and suddenly Gere can see the signs pointing to the collapse of the bridge in time to save his police sheriff friend, Laura Linney. These were all sign he had seen previously in dreams, and do not offer any advance warning to anyone else. So, the movie allows the bridge to collapse (or forces it to), and lets a bunch of people and children die, but it does take the time to validate some dumb dream Linney has been having about drowning in a sea of Christmas presents. Thank god. I find the mothmen so much more credible now. Richard Gere moves to a small town because he values life more when he has to travel 3 hours to get sushi, I guess.

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Event Horizon

Event Horizon - in which sci fi space body horror gets very fucking real, and totally gross. First, Lawrence Fishburne is a space captain named Miller, and his first mate is Joely Richardson, and she rocks. Her accent is real. A bunch of space sailors are escorting science genius Sam Neill to the wreckage of a space ship. It wasn't just a space ship, it was a massive black hole generating machine, and it recently re-emerged around Neptune, and now its just orbiting, being spooky af. To give all the details, Sam Neill, AKA Dr. Weir, is having creepy dreams about his dead wife in his cryo/gravi-sleep pod before they even get to the abandoned wreck. Oh, its called the Event Horizon. So, once the crew rolls up on Event Horizon they get nervous, because its creepy, and a few people go out to investigate the empty ship. Miller orders Dr. Weir to stay aboard their vessel, and he doesn't do a good job of listening. As soon as the crew splits up, one young guy gets sucked into the g

The Abyss

The Abyss - in which James Cameron writes a love letter to the ocean, and the ocean answers, "Here are some aliens." Ed Harris plays a scientist who is happy to be in an underwater Sea Lab (cue theme song) even though his mean wife comes to visit and be a cold bitch to him. A plot happens, but its been weeks, so I forget what it was. Ed Harris is bull headed, and only his wife can get through to him. The crew is enjoyable. Oh! Michael Bean shows up after an oil rig problem and gets pressure sickness and tries to kill everyone. In an effort to escape and save everyone, Ed Harris gets his swimmer craft stuck in a chasm, but some nice aliens lift him out in a spectacular light show of kindness. The aliens invade the SeaLab as water/people and try to be nice, with moderate success.A few people die, but most live. Good movie, watch again.

Death Wish

Death Wish (1974) - in which the justice system fails a man who lost his family, and he goes off the rails in finding personal justice. I mean vengeance. Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a husband and father and architect, who has a nice NYC life. One day, near the beginning of the movie, Paul's wife is murdered and his daughter is raped into a catatonic state, from which she will not likely recover. Sexist. Anyways, Paul is destroyed, so his boss sends him out to New Mexico, or another lawless state, for a 3 month long project. Paul does some recovering while he is out there, and is befriended by his big money client, with a big hat and big guns. Upon arriving back in NYC, Paul is disheartened to find his daughter in terrible condition, and his son-in-law coping poorly. There have also been no arrests in his wife's murder, as the police are very busy with a crime spree related to gang violence. Paul is a really sympathetic guy, and his pain is visible, and very real. So,

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