Worst movie fan ever, Part II
Submitted by Jeff Fox on April 29, 2009 - 9:57am
The bottom line is I did get to a movie over the weekend, and it was OK. Who cares if it cost $27, more or less.
I was all jazzed about "The Only Good Indian," a film shot in – ahem – that state just west of here and starring Wes Studi. OK, I only know Wes Studi from a small role in one of my favorite movies of the '90s, "Heat," but he was going to be at the theater in downtown Kansas City when they showed this thing last week. Sounded like fun.
It was being shown at the Kansas City FilmFest at the new AMC Mainstreet (the old Empire on 14th Street). I unlogically thought, "Well, I'll just go." A buddy and I went, paid $5 to park a block away, walked over to the theater and got in a long and non-moving line. As the line proceeded to not move, word started getting out. It's a film festival. Join the club. Buy your tickets in advance. Otherwise, you stand in the non-moving line. As the showtime passed and the line continued to not move, we bagged it and grabbed dinner, including the nearly 11 percent sales tax in the Power & Light District. You read that right. That's another $9.
I went back on Sunday, to see "The Stem Cell Divide," a pretty good documentary on the events leading up to the stem-cell vote in Missouri in November 2006. (Voters banned cloning – although some dispute even that – and said stem-cell research can go ahead in this state.) State Sen. Matt Bartle of Lee's Summit figures prominently in the story. So that's another $5 to park and $8 for a movie. That's how we get to $27 not so well spent.
So my questions to the blogosphere are these:
Did anyone see "The Only Good Indian?" Was it any good?
Senator, did the documentary makers give you a fair shake?
Has anyone else been to the AMC Mainstreet yet. I thought it was nice and the size of the some of the theaters would be good for art-house movies, but the Pharoah on the Independence Square is showing some of those too, and of course there's the Tivoli, Glenwood, Leawood and even the Palace on the Plaza (free parking at all).
Finally, how do I get my $27 back.
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I watched a movie over the week end courtesy of Net flicks, cost me abut $.50 the Wrestler with Mickey Rourke I think he won an award for it and WOW what a stinker???
It was a bad wrestling movie, a bad guy movie bad story the visuals were bad just a total stinker well worth the $.50 I paid…..
If I had $27 invested in that I would have got my $$$$$$$$back…..
Is that the one about the guy on the Motorcycle on the salt flats? he set a land speed record I think?
No. "The Only Good Indian" is, as I understand it, about a young man attending a reservation school about a century ago. Seriously, when it comes out on DVD, I want to see it. My curiosity is piqued.
I've read about what you're referring to with the land speed record, but I can't think of a movie about it. Anyone else heard?
Jeff Fox, opinion page editor, The Examiner, jeff.fox@examiner.net, 816-350-6313
OK I found it, it was driving me nuts and thats a short trip most days...
The World's Fastest Indian(2005) PG-13
Based on a true story, this drama follows 67-year-old grandfather and New Zealander Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) as he flies across Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats and blazes into the record books at 183.586 mph on his customized Indian Scout motorcycle. Set in 1967, this film is the second pairing for Hopkins and writer-director Roger Donaldson (Cocktail, Thirteen Days), who also worked together on The Bounty (1984).