My illness, that is. It seems to have affected our cable now…
I’d blame it on the snow except we had cable yesterday. You know, when it snowed. As opposed to today. When it didn’t.
At least we got to watch a good movie. Netflix provided us with Hancock, a film about an alcoholic, amnesiac jerk with super powers and his transformation into a real-life superhero. At least, that’s the first 30 minutes. What the trailers don’t tell you – what I liked and, apparently the rest of the world hated – was that the rest of the film takes an unexpected turn, mixing the truth about Hancock’s past, the family who helped him change, and the criminals he put behind bars into an emotional and compelling finale. In fact, the worst part of the film was the pair of “epilogue” type scenes. Totally unneccesary and, while I’m sure it was planned as a “look how every one is getting on”, well, epilogue, it skipped over what would have been the interesting part, namely, how did these people deal with the events of the climax. Yes, I see how they are now, but how and why are they that way? I know that’s convoluted, but I’m trying to keep it spoiler-free for those who, like me, enjoy their surprise reveals to be actual surprises. That’s actually one place I have to give the studio (or marketing department or whoever fought with them and won) kudos for not spoiling – or even hinting at! – the big secret in the trailers as so many have done. Maybe I just didn’t follow the hype enough, but I was very pleasantly surprised.
I give the unrated version we watched 4 stars out of 5.
If I remember to hit stop before the epilogue next time, it’s quite likely to go up.
This post back-dated to reflect the date it was authored (c.f. internet outage mentioned above).
