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A Bit of Bad Luck (2014)
A good find
I found this little gem over the weekend on the movie browser of my Windows 10. This film addresses, through the main character, the greed and moral decay of many of the 1%. A rich yuppie guy likes to cheat on his rich girl wife. The rich girl wife has had a mental health breakdown and sets up a very wicked scheme to bring her cheating husband down. The guy goes off to meet his mistress (a young girl)out in hick country. He devastates her and she offs herself. He find her dead and hauls ass out of their hotel room. Then, the weird stuff starts going down. His car is sabotaged and he ends up spending the night in his dead girlfriends little home town. The town is really angry that someone left their girl for dead. They start putting two and two together then everything hits the fan and dude is stalked like a wild animal by a dangerous mob. If I say anymore, I'm giving away some major spoilers. I don't know any of the actors in this film but they did a real good job. The story is so cool and unpredictable. Also, I live in Washington state and I am familiar with some of the locations they show. One word of warning, the film is not rated and I had my kids (9&11) with me. Suddenly, they F Bombs started flying. So, this flick is not for kids. I did not like the fowl language but apart from that, I really liked it.
Love & Mercy (2014)
This is a really great movie whether you like the Beach Boys or not
I recently watched this film on an airplane flight. What a touching story. At last there is a movie that credits Brian Wilson for something that few outside the music industry know - that he is a musical genius! The other brothers merely sang the songs which he wrote and composed. Also that, like most geniuses, he suffered from mental illness. Simply put, there is far more to the Beach Boys than the image of the clean cut all American boys. The film peels off the many complicated layers of the Beach Boys and gives us a bird's eye view of the internal strife that occurred in the band in it's latter years. At the end of the day, it is clear that the Beach Boys were not just the quintessential Californian Band but a quintessential American Band.