Movies

I saw an ad on television today for a movie that will be coming out later in December. The movie’s title is Rocky Balboa. Is Sylvester Stallone that hard up for money that he has to make another Rocky movie at age 60? Next, we’ll be seeing ads for another Rambo movie. (Speaking of Ads – please check out my Google Ads above, they've been putting some interesting Ads on this blog).

I personally like most of Stallone’s movies. He is an action movie hero that can excite the audience and at times he could make them cry. This is catharsis at its best. And isn’t this why we go to the Movie Theater.

I go to movies, because I want to get lost in some fantasy world. It’s spending a moment away from the real world and its daily problems. It’s a release from life’s reality. Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry.

This is also why we read fiction and novels. My favorite authors knew how to draw me in and make me feel as if I was one of their characters. Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea” is a perfect example. I can actually feel the Old Man’s anguish and pain as he fights the fish.

I won’t waste my money by going to the new Rocky movie. Instead I’ll read an old Hemingway novel, perhaps “To Have and Have Not”. I’ll watch the Rocky Balboa DVD in May.