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Movie Round-Up: March 26th, 2010

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It’s “H” week at the theater…

How to Train Your Dragon:

This looks great!  Vikings? Dragons? in 3D?  Hells to the yeah!  Ok, sorry, got a little excited there.  But seriously, the movie looks like it will be good for families and even exciting for adults.  I want to see it, especially since it is in 3D.  I may just have to make time to go to the theater for this one.

Hot Tub Time Machine:

If you can get past the premise of this film, that three old friends get together and wind up in a time machine (yes, a hot tub time machine) and go back to replay the most important night of their lives in 1986, this movie is a blast.  It is funny, especially if you remember 1986, the time itself and the movies of that era.  I liked it almost as much as The Hangover.  Totally worth the price of admission, in my opinion.

Rescue Me

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In recent weeks I’ve watched all of Rescue Me, a show that airs on FX. I have the first and second seasons on DVD, and the third season I downloaded from torrents (but I’ll pick up the DVDs when they come out). And, damn, this show is good.

If you have never heard of it, the simple premise is Denis Leary plays Tommy Gavin, a New York City firefighter. His house lost four guys on 9/11 and when the show begins its 3 years later but the tragedy still lingers.

As the show unfolds, it follows the lives of Tommy and his crew. Tommy in particular is interesting to me because he is a hero, really. His character is that when he’s on the job he is perfect, almost superhuman, in his duties. He saves lives. Meanwhile, his personal life is in the shitter. He is separated from his wife, he’s an angry beligerant asshole, and he begins seeing ghosts. Not really, this isn’t some Sci-Fi show, he’s obviously just halucinating, but it begins to make him unravel even further. Denis Leary plays the character superbly, from scene to scene he makes you love him, hate him, root for him, root against him… as Tommy fights his demons, you really want him to straighten out but at the same time when he knowingly takes the low road, you completely understand why he does it.

I can’t wait for season four.

If you haven’t seen the show, I seriously recommend picking it up.