Katy Wilkins

I enjoyed it for what it is. A really good war movie, except the enemy is weirdo aliens in their bizarre ships. I read Ebert, and Rotten Tomatoes, both of which I give little or no attention to the reviews there. Everybody who writes on Rotten Tomatoes is competing to be the most pretentious “Film Aficionado”. Everybody has to show-off their finer sensibilities, which we ignorant peasants who loved this movie, could not possibly understand with our pea brains. Well screw them. See for yourself, it’s exciting and loud and Michael Pena and Aaron Eckhart are great as usual. A good popcorn movie, try it!!

It’s funny, sad, and full of heart. I found the characters to all be likable and relatable, even the 18 year old main character, Taylor (Tay-Tay) and Krystal’s 16 year old paraplegic son, even to an old crow like me. Took me awhile to get into the spirit of the movie, I wasn’t sure about it, till William Macy talked to the very young Taylor about the tiddy magazine he looked at, and Satan vs Santa. Saying any more would spoil it, but William Macy’s first scene there hooked me. Kathy Bates played her usual, great, funny, wry and touching self, and plays a great mentor to her art gallery helper/employee Taylor. I am sure a great many of you, the condescending, movie snobs (oh wait, FILM snobs 🙄) will find a million nit-picking, ridiculous, criticisms of this FILM, for being just what it is. Not a deep profound Bergman-style, hidden-messages FILM that the average movie watcher would rather be tortured than sit through, but a funny, sweet, slow-Southern drawl of a movie. Entertainment, not the meaning of life on a screen.