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Learning to Drive (2014)
Well acted, uplifting movie
No idea why it's rated so low. Kingsley is great, and the relationship with Clarkson seems to grow organically as he teaches her how to drive. Clarkson's character has to learn to drive because her husband left her, and he was the driver- which in New York City she didn't really need to drive. As she says early on "they have buses and trains and cabs here."
At the end of the day it's about two different people who randomly meet and get to know each other. Each is going through some difficulties, and they each help the other. And that's enough of a story to hold the movie together. And you leave the movie with a positive feeling about mankind.
A Love Song (2022)
Great scenery, but a slow, sad story.
I'm sorry but this was just too slow and sad for me. I'm widowed myself, so maybe that's it. But this just didn't quite come together for me. Not enough story, too much nice photography.
What are we supposed to take away from this, after all? That life is short- so enjoy each moment? OK, but let's add just a little excitement and drama. The main character was just too melancholy and boring to keep my interest. There were a couple of good scenes, but not enough to sustain even the 90 minutes this film played out.
I'm not saying it's a bad movie, but I can't really recommend it as great entertainment. I watched the whole movie and came away thinking that I wished I'd watched something else.
Shooter (2007)
Great Action Flick- saw it first at Embassy Baghdad
I am probably a bit biased about this movie, because I saw it first on a screen set up behind the US Embassy in Baghdad, when I was stationed there in the spring of 2007. That's when the Embassy was at the old Presidential Palace, and the screen was behind the pool, right below the route helicopters took to fly in to the CSH (Combat Support Hospital), that was just beyond the walls of the compound. So in the scene toward the end, where helicopters are swooping down on Wahlberg as he is going after the bad guys, we had actual Blackhawks flying overhead, providing real 3D sound effects. (Of course, we had them throughout the movie, whether there were helicopters in the movie or not!) But I do remember this to have been a great movie in the Clint Eastwood formula: Good guy is placed into situation by bad guys, bad guys try to kill him, good guy gets away, and after being on the run for a while, brings down awesome justice on the bad guys.
Well done!(and thanks to the movie's producers for providing a print for us to view in Baghdad, in 2007, when it was a first run movie!)