[senior citizen]

Two movies we watched on Pay for View this past weekend while it was raining out.....

We actually liked both of them. Surprised at the low ratings....but then we also liked Independence Day and we do like anything Tom Hanks produces, as well.......all I can say is that both movies kept us awake; we didn't nap through them.

Parkland was particularly poignant as we both recall exactly where we were when we heard the "buzz" that J.F.K. had been shot and then that he had died. Unbelievable that it was fifty years ago.
We were both 18 years old at the time.


　

"White House Down" (Rated PG-13 for action and violence)

''Just about as silly as an action pic can be — the President of the United States shoots a rocket launcher out of a careening limousine — this movie from disaster director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day," "2012") still manages to be big dumb fun by exulting in its own clichés and absurdities. Channing Tatum is a wannabe Secret Service guy visiting the White House with his daughter when it’s attacked; Jamie Foxx is the rocket-launching president he must protect. Wonderfully ridiculous. GRADE: B-''

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"Parkland" (Rated PG-13 for bloody ER trauma procedures, violent images and language, and smoking throughout; Millennium,

''A far more somber look at a presidential attack, this film examines JFK’s assassination from the point of view of the doctors that tried to treat him, the man who caught it on a home movie camera and Lee Harvey Oswald’s family. It has a lot of interesting angles and some fine actors — Paul Giamatti, Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton — but feels as if its still treading on well-worn territory. GRADE: C+''