Runtime:
90 minutes
Directed
by: Steve Miner
Starring:
Dylan McDermott, James Van Der Beek, Ashton Kutcher, Alfred Molina,
Rachael Leigh Cook
From:
Miramax
Bob
Funk (2009)
Runtime:
106 minutes
Directed
by: Craig Carlisle
Starring:
Michael Leydon Campbell, Rachael Leigh Cook, Grace Zabraskie, Amy
Ryan
From:
Unified Pictures
Here's
a two-fer for tonight, the final two movies I saw this past Tuesday
in that big four movie marathon I did. First, I'll get to Texas
Rangers, a movie not entirely based on fact and delayed for two years
and obviously edited by 20 minutes before it finally got released.
The
plot is rather simple: a ragtag group of young people decide to join
the Texas Rangers after the Civil War; they are led by Leander
McNelly (McDermott) and they end up having to deal with the
villainous John King Fisher (Molina). That's it in a nutshell, but
there's various dramatic moments with characters growing and changing
and all that. There are also some comedic moments.
The
movie isn't the greatest but it's still watchable. At least the movie
moves fast enough (but too fast, it turns out) and the action is
entertaining-enough. Like I said, though, I wish that one of these
days the longer version would get released, but that is highly
unlikely I realize. While it sounds toxic to watch a movie starring
Van Der Beek and the former Mr. Demi Moore, they are more than
tolerable. There are other familiar faces, like Usher (!), Randy
Travis, and a tremendous mustache-wearing Robert Patrick. Rachael has
a small role as the little hottie who lives on a big ranch in Texas.
Tom Skerritt is her dad! Of course both James and Ashton take a shine
to her. Besides the scenery she provides, the general scenery of the
movie (filmed in Canada and Mexico) at least looks... well, scenic.
Onto
the second film, something completely different. This is totally an
indie film, good and bad. Here's the plot: The title dude is a
loudmouthed abrasive drunk who gets fired from his job (his boss is
his mom; awk-ward); he ends up getting hired back and he works under
a new employee (Cook).
This
is a comedy/drama and it often moves between the two, and not always
so well. Sure, there are enough humorous moments but overall the
movie just isn't that great in terms of being entertaining. Sometimes
old Bob is entertaining but other times he's just a real A-hole and
not even the type that you can enjoy. Rachael's character is one who
is a ditz and clumsy and that's about it for character development.
There is some random nudity to spice things up, if nothing else.
Still, while this wasn't awful it certainly wasn't the favorite film
of me when it comes to Ms. Cook; at least she was a dirty blonde
here, which was cool.
I'll
be back Wednesday night.
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