It’s a decent way to throw away 2 hours. If you’ve got nothing better to do, and you don’t mind watching two or three decent actors throw their talent around the screen, you might enjoy The Brave One.

Now, onto the Bad:
It begins to make a point about vigilante justice as a savior. It acts like it wants to ask the question. Is vigilante justice ever justified? It’s a good debate really, and there’s a good argument to be had for either side. Is it the slippery slope? Where do we say that we know for sure? And then? Make a law for it? So that that law can be broken by the next vigilante? (maybe I’ll do a piece on it at some point, flesh it out)

However, it never really does more than lightly broach the subject. That’s all it has for us, to mention that maybe there’s this bigger thing, this bigger issue that might be worth looking at. And that’s kinda frustrating for me. I mean, c’mon, I’m a big boy, I can take it. Give me a debate. You don’t even have to answer the questions.

Another thing that irked me was the juvenile pointing. Huh? I hate it when a movie just assumes I won’t get it. So they resort to pointing out the underlying meaning of something. Like the scene with the kid who got his iPod stolen, as he’s being questioned by the authorities, he mentions that maybe he didn’t come forward because he felt like they deserved what they got.

What ever happened to allusion? Why doesn’t that happen anymore? Look, I don’t need the idiot of a character to spell it out for me. Really, you can just casually drop the hint that people are debating the issue. I don’t need right- and left-wing nuts spewing garbage at me to inform me of the point that there’s something at issue that’s perhaps morally grey.

As if I’m stupid or something. Get with it; I’m random, not ran-dumb. Duh.

And then of course there’s the issue of how the hell did they not catch her after the crowbar incident? I mean, as she’s interviewing the cop, he so much as says he looks for evidence at the scene, blood, DNA, etc. She had her arm ripped open, blood gushing out. How the hell were they not able to get a sample of that? How come when it is needed to further the plot, the cops can’t actually use the science they always tend to use to put away the bad guys, to find the mediocre guys? I know, I answered my own question, but still, you get my point.

It’s not bad. But it’s certainly a far cry from great. I’ll be kind (because I saw booby, and a Guy from Lost), and give it a B-.



Need. To. Work. Back. In. SLOWLY…
I had recently strained something in my back – perhaps sleeping funny, or maybe the kinky sex, who knows – and had been avoiding heavy workouts since I was in no shape to huff & puff like that.

I have been feelin’ good the last week or so, and in fact started lifting again this past Friday. Sunday, it was legs for the first time in about 2-3 weeks.

Right now, it’s hard for me to pass gas without grimacing in pain. I can’t even look at my legs without screaming in agony. My legs are screaming. Like, if you were standing outside my house right now, you’d probably be like “what are those faint voices I hear? Are children crying in the distance?" You’d have thought that by now, I’d have learned to ease back into my workouts slowly. No such luck. Turns out I’m hardheaded.

Hey, maybe they do need to spell out things in movies for me. Maybe I am that idiot. God knows my legs would agree with that statement about now…

Peace.

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