"Black Mass"

Right now I'm pretty excited. Why? The new Johnny Depp film that no one seems to know about called Black Mass. I first caught wind of this movie several months ago when looking up the upcoming projects for Benedict Cumberbatch. The title in and of itself doesn't tell us anything about what it's going to be about, so I have done some research...

On IMDB you'll find that this is the true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf. Now, there's nothing better than a biopic filled with a superstar cast including: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Corey Stoll, Adam Scott, and more.

So who is this Whitey Bulger? Most of my generation would not recognize this name, or his story. However, it's a great one to be told. By now, we know he was a straight up gangster but what makes him so interesting is that he lived his ENTIRE life as one. Born in 1929 he became a criminal by age 14 and never got any better, socially that is. Criminally, he became a master. At the opposite end of the Bulger family table, his little brother William Bulger (Benedict Cumberbatch) went on to serve as the President of the Massachusetts Senate with the longest term in U.S. history, and President of the University of Massachusetts. From 1975-1990 Whitey served as an FBI informant all the while building up his own criminal regime. If you have ever seen The Black List with James Spader, it's just like that. Crime boss, FBI's most wanted list, FBI informant, all the while committing and planning five steps ahead of everyone else. Criminal geniuses! But they shouldn't be praised. Guys like Whitey and Raymond Reddington are ruthless killers, only Whitey is not fictional. He lived a life on the run and in August 2013, he was found guilty of federal racketeering, extortion, conspiracy and 11 murders. He was charged for 19 murders but only convicted of the 11 in court. His brother William had to resign his seat in the Senate because he would not testify in court that he had contacted the then fugitive and #2 most wanted man on the FBI's Most Wanted Man in 1999 just below #1 Osama bin Laden.

Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace) this film is slated to appear September 18th of this year but with all the events that he encountered, I'm still trying to find out what crimes the story will be centered around. Maybe it will give us a glimpse of everything or possibly just the time that he was a fleeing fugitive and William resigned from office. There family was Irish-Roman catholic and I'm still trying to figure out the relevance of the title. The word Mass makes me refer to their catholic origins, but Black is throwing me off. I'm sure the film will explain but I'm very curious to see what all is in store for this movie.

Check out the trailer HERE

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Done with Gone Girl

I'm just going to start by saying I did not like Gone Girl. This film featuring Ben Affleck, Rosamond Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris was not short of great performances by any means. Rosamond was even nominated for an academy award for best actress in this film, but it simply comes down to the fact that it was an hour too long. That being said, the whole story would have changed. We find out that Nick, played by Affleck, was actually the victim of Rosamund's character, Amy Dunne. We are expected to believe for a while that Nick killed Amy but then we obviously find out her little scheme. It should have ended there. At this point in the film, we hated Nick and how he treated Amy in the later years of their marriage and she just wanted a way out. Imagine the ultimate revenge against him would have been plotting your own murder and him getting framed for it. In the scene where we see her driving off into the sunset and she starts unfolding everything that happened to her, just imagine the movie ending right there. It would have been such an amazing plot twist that Alfred Hitchcock himself would have turned over in his grave. I mean I sat there watching this movie with my sister and we both agreed that the ending to this movie was psychotic. Is is supposed to be that way? Definitely. It

is solely based off of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same title. I just can't stop thinking about how awesome this story could have been if it ended an hour earlier. Amy would be a hero to women across America who have been abused by their husbands! There would be an epidemic of women trying to send their husbands to jail for their murder. Maybe that's far fetched but who knows in this day and age. Anyway, I feel like this story was meticulously drawn out into a beautiful crystal vase only to be knocked down and broken into a million skin slicing pieces and we are left to bleed across the floor. Flynn is a critically acclaimed writer and I'm sure the movie does not give the book any justice, but I'm a watcher and I would like to see more of her novels come to the silver screen... so long as they don't get weirdly psychotic at the end. I mean who stays with their wife when you know that she murdered some other guy and ruined another guy's life? That part just doesn't make any sense. I demand a new ending and since that isn't going to happened I get to put my big spiel online for no one to read anyway. As always, I recommend everyone to check this movie out and create your own opinion.

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