Sean’s movie thoughts

I liked the latest Sniper movie. This time Beckett and Zero have joined a task force in Costa Verde. It was a bit less jokey than the previous film in the series and a character from the last few films is absent. Hopefully this is not the last movie in the series.  Kickboxer Armageddon is still happening. For a while I thought it wasn't going to happen. The previous films in this series have been pretty good. Alain Moussi is not Jean Claude Van Damme but Moussi is a likable screen presence. Hallmark continues to make movies. Some are corny but occasionally I have liked a few. Maybe all of them are corny. I hope the new Superman movie is good.

 I liked a Complete Unknown. It had good performances, was not too long, and only covered a few years of Dylan’s life. I think that was a wise choice. This is a drama with music, not a musical. Bob Dylan rises to fame in the early 1960s in this film. He meets and befriends Pete Seeger  and Woody Guthrie, famous folk singers. He also meets singer/songwriter writer Joan Baez. I am not sure how true the movie is to life, maybe a few details were fudged to make a compelling story. I think the performances were good. Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan. I thought he was good and so were the other actors. Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez was good, and I liked Edward Norton as Pete Singer.  I guess it was a wise move not to bring Joaquin Phoenix to play Johnny Cash. Reportedly the director James Mangold considered it. Phoenix might have been too old for the part. Dylan is not always likeable in the movie. He is not evil but he might be self-centered.  I thought it was a bit lon...