Upon seeing the new feel good family movie, “Dan in Real Life”, I couldn’t help but think that this was the poor man’s “Family Stone”. Now, the “Family Stone” wasn’t exactly a milestone in cinematic history, so you can imagine what level this film achieved…hovering right around mediocre, at best.

However, I will say that it was somewhat entertaining. I, too, laughed with the aged audience who had come for the 4:30 showing last Sunday afternoon. You see; I didn’t walk into this sticky movie theater with any expectations. In fact, I’m pretty sure I had negative hope for this move, so anything was something.

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Into the Wild is an adaptation of a book by John Krakauer. The book was an expansion of an article written by Krakauer that appeared in Outside, based on the journals of Christopher McCandless.

The movie starts at a run. The main character Christopher McCandless (Emille Hirsch) is walking into the wilderness to presumably live off the land, with everything he needs on his back. The story then backtracks, beginning two years ago at college graduation and then skipping ahead in chapters titled, describing the development of any man. Intermittent are scenes of the present with Christopher in Alaska as he learns to survive completely independent of society.

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Yep. It’s that movie you heard about with the guy and the sex doll. I have known about it for a while and I think a lot of people have. People that usually don’t talk to me about upcoming films would even bring it up to me. “Hey, you hear about that movie coming out with the guy from The Notebook and the sex doll?” That’s pretty much all I knew about this movie. That, and I saw the posters. Going in, I had very little idea of what was about to flicker in front of me. I assumed it would be somewhat funny, maybe even quite bad in its attempt to be funny (which happens TOO often with a premise like this). I don’t often go spending $10 and two hours of my life on something I didn’t already do research on… or even check out the trailer. When the credits hit, two words instantly came to my head: Surprisingly endearing.

This is the part where I would describe the movie and give you enough info so that you can decide whether or not it is worth your time and money. I’m not going to do that. Sorry. Hold on. Let me see the trailer over at Apple and see if I should link you to that. Nope. Please don’t even watch the trailer. If you already have seen the trailer in front of another movie, I can’t do anything about that. All I can say is that it didn’t do it justice and I’m glad I didn’t see it before. It ruins some funny scenes that happen during the film.

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I saw the preview for this film and couldn’t wait to see it. I think both Denzel Washington (Frank Lucas) and Russel Crowe (Richie Roberts) are great actors, and I especially love them when they get to play bad-asses. After seeing American Gangster, I felt it was built up to be much more than it was. To me the subject of the film was drugs, not gangsters. The entire feel of the movie, felt off. I guess that’s what you get for hiring an English guy to make AMERICAN Gangster. From the way they are selling it, it should have been a gangster film that deals with drugs, but instead it was a movie about drugs with gangsters and cops around them. I thought this was going to be a contender for The Godfather or even The Sopranos, it’s not.This moving was closer to Blow than The Godfather.

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