There are so many to me. Usually if I'm looking for something worthwhile to watch I start with who the director is. As an example The New World, the Terrence Malick flick got terrible reviews but I watched it just because Terrence Malick made it. It certainly wasn't his best film but it was not what the critics said it was either. It was a good film, really good if you are comparing it to all the other crap that is generally being shown at the local multiplex.

The last movie I watched, on thursday night, was Major Dundee. I'm a real sucker for Sam Peckinpah films (figure that one out Pat...a supposed pacifist that loves Peckinpah) and it's not his best film but it's got a great cast...all his regulars plus Chuck Heston playing an absolute jackass of a man. Perfect casting if you ask me. Heston gives great jackass. The funny thing about the movie is it shadows our current situation so well. Heston's Major Dundee mounts his own little war on terror against an Apache named Sierra Charriba (the Osama bin Laden character) who has terrorized an area "three times the size of Texas" and the fled across the border into Mexico to play hide and seek with Dundee. Like Osama, Charriba leaves little messages here and there to make Dundee continue his pursuit.

Of course lives are lost, everybody gets...you know...a little funny in the head...Dundee often appears to have no clue what he's doing but everybody sort of follows him blindly...because...well...they said they would. It's a Peckinpah film so there is of course some bloodshed, the main character takes a detour for a bit to become a lunatic self-loathing gutter drunk and go whoring...Peckinpah always did know what to do with his leading men. And to top it all off...just for Pat...they humiliate, trick, steal from, and kill a bunch of French guys...after Dundee liberates a village in Durango from these nasty French punks that have been starving the locals. Hey, one character even makes fun of how the French dress...this movie has got it all!