That about describes my mindset at this very fucking moment. I am just a miserable bastard, and although I took my happy pills, really thinking about having some happy drink to go with it. Amazing how fast one’s personal life, professional life can all just go to shit. And you work hard towards that light at the end of the tunnel, but you get a migraine, you get some info about what somebody has been doing, you find out people change their mind, you lose a valuable supportive person. And the tunnel, the proverbial tunnel,IT….ALL…COMES…..CRASHING….DOWN. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 26th entry into this terrible blog. Fucking hell. Thank you to anybody who has had the patience to sift through this sludge of writing and kept on keeping on. I love you.
So I watched this movie while 2 lovely ladies watched comfortably from afar, in another room. Fortunately, I think they both seemed to enjoy what is widely critically acclaimed to be Stephen King’s second best horror adaptation behind The Shining. Now that is just a stab in the dark, but how many other horror stories of his have been nominated for awards? I’m not gonna debate what his best movie is. OK, maybe I will. But everybody will have a different top 5. Then you have to also keep mind Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, and the Green Mile, but I don’t consider them horror, and neither should you. Yeah, I will most likely at some point do a nice top 20 or who knows, maybe rank every Stephen King flick I have ever seen. That will get lots of hits, right…..right? Balls.
It’s amazing how one of the best movies on this whole list has been ignored for all intents and purposes for 2 paragraphs. Ah well. If you don’t know what this movie is about, long story short, James Caan is a success writer, gets into a car accident, and is rescued by Kathy Bates. She turns out to be his #1 fan. This is great. Wait, Kathy is showing signs of being a little psycho. Hey what woman isn’t, right? I hate my life. Anyway, I am indulging on a few sour cream and onion pringles.. I felt you needed to know that. So Kathy Bates slowly shows more and more psychotic behavior, and Jimmy slowly realizes that he is in a situation that he has very little control over. He tries coming up with ways to save himself, she goes more and more crazy, and then THE SCENE happens. If you don’t know what scene I am referring, then stop, just stop. Go download or buy the movie. You will never forget the scene once you have seen it.
This movie is carried mainly by Kathy and Jimmy, I mean shit, Kathy won the fucking Oscar for this performance, so yeah, she did amazing. The side characters do fine in supporting the plot. This is truly hard to rate for me. It’s one of the more perfectly crafted stories, and it was executed so well. I guess I have to give it an 8.5. Wow, can’t believe that number, but it is fucking enjoyable.
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