Most of the time I’m working on a page, coding it or trying to figure out some CSS code or something, I’ll have the TV on in the corner to help make things less monotonous. Probably the top movie I’ve watched recently on HBO was “The Departed” which stars such heavy-hitters as Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon (where is Rounders 2) and Jack Nicholson. While I’m not usually that big a fan of Leo, he was awesome in this one as well as all the other actors. The movie itself had a tight script and even more tense feel from the very start, and just as you think you’ve got the ending figured out it takes a series of twists and turns that leaves you sitting there with your mouth hanging open saying WOW. Great film, one of the best I’d seen in awhile.
I also caught a very strange, slightly indie kind of flick a few weeks ago called “Salvage”. In this bizarre offering, which almost feels like you’re watching some kind of home video footage, a young girl is having vivid nightmares about being murdered by an unidentified crazy hick type of character. Time and time again she is brutally taken down after valiantly trying to escape or stop the killer, only to wake up and be forced to relive the same ghastly sequence (albeit with different circumstances each time) again. Of course, no one believes here and everyone thinks she’s crazy, which adds to her desperation. As time goes on, she starts picking up clues on how to stop this cycle (and also on who the killer actually is) and the tension continues to build. I won’t give away the ending, but it was actually good in a this-is-my-first-movie kind of way and was a great random find by me while flipping through the channels. Now I’m going to try and make it through “Rat” which the preview says is about a “woman who becomes furious when her husband returns home from a bar and transforms into a rat”. Yep.
