Battleship, Bernie, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and Men In Black 3

So recently did a movie marathon and knocked out four movies: Battleship, Bernie, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and Men in Black 3. All these movies are watchable but the clear victor here is Bernie. The Richard Linklater film starring Jack Black is simply great. There are so many little things about this movie that make it stand out over the others. One of the more pleasing choices made by the director was the use of real townsfolk from Carthage, TX. These non-actors bring so many great local expressions to the fore it’s impossible to list them all here. In any event, if you are a fan of a well-crafted simile or idiom, then you must watch these people operate in their element, truly classic stuff. To close, there is one particular part where an older man breaks down Texas geography. It is so balls on accurate I almost pissed myself. Needless to say the giant “?” over the panhandle portion of the sate is priceless. 

The movie to avoid is MIB3. So bad! Nothing funny happens and no good existential, thought provoking bits that have been integral to the other films. Yes Brolin is good, but go watch a better movie he’s in if that’s what you want (No Country for Old Men, Goonies, Milk to name a few). Even though the second one was crap, at least it has the laugh out loud moments of David Cross and the badly made alien landing video to make up for it. This has nothing funny and its far-outness 60’s motif doesn’t scratch the surface of what was happening in that time period. Just my two cents worth.