A Cheap Victory
So, I've reached a higher plain in my frugality. Now I like finding movies that I can check out for free! Unfortunately though, looking for movies there seems a bit like animals fighting at the watering hole during a drought: mass chaos!
The movies are supposed to be organized by genre, but because you can only take two movies per library card, people pick up anything that sounds good before they narrow it down to their final picks. Once they've done that, they just drop them wherever they happen to be standing at the time. You should try and experience the adventure...
Recent Picks
My most recent picks have been Fires In Kuwait (a documentary), Lifeboat (an Alfred Hitchcock film based on a John Steinbeck novel), and Rescue Dawn (A Vietnam era piece with Christian Bale and Steve Zahn)
Do you want to hear about Rescue Dawn? Okay good, because I'm going to ramble about it...
The movie follows the story of a downed pilot who gets captured and put in a Vietcong prisoner camp. The movie makes him look like a perfect Boy Scout. He eventually escapes with a fellow prisoner and lives in the jungle eating bugs and snakes. Christian Bale plays the main character. I have to say that his American accent is pretty cliche and fake, but ignoring that fact, you'll be impressed by his ingenuity. The story itself is a little slow moving until toward the end you will be shocked by an intense random act of violence. I'll just say that you may be disappointed, but I enjoyed it.
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