Welcome to Fat Charlie's Movie Review and Jazz Emporium (unfortunately, I'm limited by licensing from putting up any links to any jazz, so you're only gonna get the movie reviews).

First off - Black Snake Moan, with Samuel L Jackson and Christine Ricci. Let's first off say that this is NOT a movie you want to watch with your children - or even with your parents. It's gritty. However, it is also hilarious (when it means to be) and intensely dramatic (when it means to be). And Samuel L. Jackson is amazing as a musician. (Side note - he learned to play guitar for this film. He started learning while doing filming for Snakes On A Plane; I have to admit, I kept thinking of this movie as "Nymphos in the House", and waiting for Lazarus to say "I have had it with these blankety-blank nymphos in this blankety-blank house!")  Fat Charlie and Ethel give it two thumbs up - WAY up.

Elizabeth - Wow. I had absolutely no idea that this film was released in 1998; I thought that it was brand new. At any rate - it's a lot of fun to watch; I do not know enough English history to know how accurate it is. (I suspect that that might be a good thing, in this case :) - if anybody out there knows enough about the Tudors to have an opinion, please share it. It was good enough that I told Ethel to get the sequel into our Netflix queue.

Primer - This film was made for $7,000.00 - yep, that's a decimal point. If you can watch this movie just one time and understand it, then I'll bet that GoDaddy will hire you in any capacity you wish; it's a brain-twister, and no mistake. Absolutely fun and one that you want to watch with somebody else so you can argue about what happened :)

Sunshine - This is "science fiction" but it's more along the lines of Solaris than (say) 2001 - or, as a better counter-example, Primer. It's a beautiful movie; the cinematography and score are wonderful. I walked around the house saying "Wow!" after watching it, but Ethel's reaction was more along the lines of "Huh?" - no, wait. It's not like Solaris. It's much more like The Fountain, which, as my son Floyd likes to say, is "the best movie you'll ever see about a naked bald guy who floats around a snow globe while kissing a tree".

Jumper - Fast moving action/adventure/science-fiction - and it's got Samuel L Jackson in it ("I have had it with these blankety-blank jumpers on this blankety-blank planet!") so it can't be really bad. It's fun to watch, as long as you follow the advice from the MST3K theme and "repeat to yourself 'it's just a show - I should really just relax'".

No Country For Old Men - why did they do that? Why? It was SUCH a good movie, and then they went and RUINED it - by not ENDING it!...I could listen to Tommy Lee Jones read a phone book, and he has some lines in this movie that will force stop/rewind/play several times. There's a lot of wonderful dialogue, the movie is in every way captivating and interesting - and then they didn't end it.

I should have known; perhaps they did have an ending, but when this movie won the Best Picture Oscar, they probably had to edit the ending out, because it probably made sense.



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