The Fighter

We have all been watching Marky Mark Wahlberg drop his pants and show us his glorious chest for quite sometime, and this movie reminded me what made him so damn hot in the first place. The movie was very good, Christian Bale played the druggie brother perfectly. When he wasn’t making want to throw up because he looked completely emaciated. For me the stand out performance in this movie has to go to Amy Adams though. I have never seen her play such a rough role and I wasn’t expecting her portrayal to be all that good. But she really flexed those acting muscles in this one. And while I don’t in general like boxing, the Director David Russell really made me jump a few times, just listening to the sound of a glove hitting flesh. A little too real for me in parts with actual boxing, but overall a good movie. Though yet another movie set in Boston, is this number two for the year? I think so. So if you like watching boxing this is for you, and if you have a girlfriend she can just stare at Marky Mark. But in order to not be scared by the look of the actual people they are portraying leave before the credits start. I had a good feeling about the Pride’s of Lowell and then I saw them in real life, just a little bit too real or Friday night. But yes go see it, it is worth the price of a ticket stub

Black Swan

Bravo! Is the word that first comes to mind. This was truly a good movie, very intense though, and it certainly doesn't leave you with any warm and fuzzy feelings afterward. Natalie Portman has come a very long way from Where the Heart Is. But she did it so well. While the very thing women, make everyone bundled up in winter wear wish that they had the wherewithal to squeeze into a tutu, the visual brilliance of this movie makes it even better to watch. Talk about suffering for a career in the background but portraying grace while on stage. In any case I don’t care if you rent this in the movie theater or watch it at home either way. This movie is good!