I watched 2 redbox movies this weekend (with Ben, via Skype).
1) Big Fan
2) The Last Station
I don’t think I would recommend either of them. The first one, Big Fan, was quite disturbing and depressing. Patton Oswald, who played the main character, did a great job of acting and the story was non-traditional. However, I would not want to watch this movie ever again. I felt incredibly depressed afterwards.
The second movie, The Last Station, was boring and confusing. Why do people playing Russians (Leo Tolstoy and his entourage) have British accents? Weird period film that contains scenes that remind me of a 1970s Berkeley hippie commune. Both movies got decent reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, which means that perhaps I don’t always agree with other peoples’ opinions about movies.
(Ben really liked Big Fan, but I think it’s because the main character had the same kind of football themed sheets that he had when he was a kid).