There was no poker game last night. Instead, I went to J&L's (two of the other regular poker players and long-time friends of mine) and we watched a couple of movies. These two movies were both quite good, but they couldn't have been much different from each other.
The first one was Bolt. This is an computer-animated Disney movie about a small white dog named Bolt who, having spent his entire life on the set of a television series, thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human has been kidnapped, he sets out on a cross-country journey to "rescue" her. This is definitely a family-type movie, but is quite fun and entertaining despite my continuing hatred of Miley Cyrus, who does the voice of Penny, who is Bolt's human, and the Scientologist wacko John Travolta, who is the voice of Bolt. There are a lot of well-done animal mannerisms in the movie, including Bolt's fear of the super-power robbing substance, styrofoam peanuts. This movie made me smile a lot. It's worth watching.
The second movie we watched was not quite so family-friendly. Surveillance is the second film by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of legendary filmmaker David Lynch. This movie received relatively bad reviews (but also won some less prestigious awards), but I thought that it was a fairly decent flick. I especially liked the corrupt cops (including French Stewart) who like to shoot passing speeders tires and then play "good cop/bad cop" with their hapless victims. I know that sounds strange to enjoy something like that, but it works. At least for me. This movie is about two FBI agents investigating a series of murders and a missing woman. I won't give the ending away, but it was/wasn't a surprise to me (I had some suspicions during the movie). If you like suspense/thriller type movies, you will probably like this one. But there are a couple of very adult and disturbing scenes (no nudity), so you've been warned. I still recommend this one though. It has a lot to offer.
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