It's Andy Fish!

Mother nature pulled a nasty trick on my Birthday last weekend, I woke to find 4-5″ of snow blanketing my property. Veronica has been suffering from a pretty serious head cold so it was up to me to shovel it alone. The snow was very light and fluffy and it actually would have been perfectly fine if it weren’t bitterly cold and windy. The temp was 16 but with the wind it felt like zero.

Andy Palooza which was slated to start at 12Noon sharp didn’t begin until about 3pm thanks to a couple of hours of shoveling aided by son’s #1 and #2. We got chinese food from the terrific MIN’S WOK on West Boylston Street and decided we’d only watch one movie– sticking to the theme we chose LOGAN starring broadway dancing and singing star Hugh Jackman who stands well over 6 feet tall yet somehow is playing a character that is supposed to be about 5’2″.

LOGAN begins with Wolverine, aka Logan, trying to recover from a hangover/headache/beating/night on the town in the back of a limo he is driving when a bunch of Cholo’s come along and steal his tires. Wolverine gets up, nowhere near as cranky as I was to shovel on my birthday, and proceeds to slice and dice the baddies, although he does take a serious beating and a couple of shotgun blasts to his chest.

And that appeared to be the entire plot. Mix in Patric Stewart as an old Professor X suffering from some dementia and a little girl known as X-23 who may or may not be Wolverine’s daughter. Honestly I found it hard to care much about any of these characters or the weak storyline. I was also surprised that there were approximately 1,702 F-Bombs mixed liberally into the film– I can just imagine the Mom taking little Bobby to see a Wolverine movie, Wolverine is after all a comic book character and he has a cartoon series designed for kids, and then having to explain to Bobby how dropping constant F-Bombs is a sign of lazy writing.

LOGAN – 2.0 – I’d rate it lower but it never had my full attention. Hugh Jackman was fine as Wolverine but he spent 98% of the movie lying in the dirt, on the curb or face down on a floor– seemed like he didn’t have a lot of fun.

After the boys left I watched Richard Roundtree in SHAFT (1971) which is a blaxploitation film that if you don’t take it too seriously is pretty entertaining but even I have my limits.

I also watched 1978’s SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE which is absolutely saved by the earnest performance of Christopher Reeve as Superman and Gene Hackman is brilliant as Lex Luthor.

I think next year for Andy Palooza I’m just going to deep clean my studio, which are currently my plans for today.