Got an earlier report on this film that was pretty highly praising... So here we are with the latest... Sounds pretty darn good ya know? Here's Longshot....
well this is my first effort as a geek spy, so be gentle. anyways, last thursday i saw a sneak preview of this new movie coming out called "Stir of Echoes," starring Kevin Bacon. i'd never heard of it before, so i thought maybe it was really just a front for another movie (who better than Kevin Bacon as a front, he's been in every other movie). well, when i got to the theater, they were indeed playing "Stir of Echoes." Kevin Bacon plays the lead, and is the only well known actor in the film (the only other guy i recognized was Kevin Dunn). it's directed and written by David Koepp. not one of my favorite writers, personally, after the mess he wrote up with "The Lost World." however, he adapted this story from one by Richard Matheson ("I am Legend" and "What Dreams May Come" author). it's about a guy who went to work full time right after high school, got married, had a son, you know the deal.
at the beginning of the film, Kevin Bacon's son looks at the camera and says, "What's it like to be dead?" Bacon puts his son to bed, and then he and his wife go to a party, where he volunteers to be hypnotized to disprove that it can actually be done. of course, it can be. in one of the movies coolest scenes, he goes under, way under. he sees a bunch of strange things that don't make sense, and then he wakes up from the session in a cold sweat. he goes home that night and he tries to go to sleep. While he is making love to his wife, the strange visions start to come back to him, disturbing him greatly. he goes down stairs to get some orange juice, and as he is standing down there, he sees an apparition of a teenage girl.
that's all in the first 15 minutes (i think). it starts out slow, but gets going really quick. there are a couple of stupid points in the movie. there's this guy Neil, who identifies with Kevin Bacon's son saying "the boy has eyes on him" telling the audience that there are more of those that can see strange things out there. pretty cool, right? but then, Bacon's wife goes looking for this Neil guy later on, and he blows the whole mystery of who they are. oh, well. my opinion? i enjoyed this movie a lot. maybe because i had never heard of it. i went to the theater and saw "In Dreams" with high expectations from the trailer, which were pretty quickly shot down. "Stir of Echoes" is a much better film. i would definitely recommend it to anyone else who psyched up by the trailer to "In Dreams" but was disappointed with the film.
well, that's my first spy report. do i get a nickname, now? if so, (and your greatness gives me a choice about it) call me "Longshot" that cool guy with the bionic eye in the X-Men who gets really lucky and gets all the chicks. talk to you later, Harry
