Movie Review: ***Deep Impact (1998)

Deep Impact: Here is a comet hitting the world dooms-day scenario.  There were two similar movies made at the same time.  The other movie they are more successful with diverting the comet heading for Earth than this.  However, a group of astronauts sacrifice themselves in the end to divert the larger comet.  The smaller one hits and the East coast is devastated with a tidal wave.  Tea Leoni stars as Jenny Lerner the reporter on this case.  She is granted a position to be safe in a cave; but declines for a co-worker with a child.  Robert Duvall portrays an astronaut, Spurgeon Tanner, who is the old man and the only with experience landing a craft as he travelled to the moon.  Now he must land on an comet.  Elijah Wood portrays on of the co discoverers of the comet.  He is also granted a place in the shelter, but declines for a girl.  He is able to rescue the girl, and her baby sister on a motor bike.  They reach higher ground.  Lastly Morgan Freeman portrays the President who is dealing with a hopeless situation.Deep Impact: Here is a comet hitting the world dooms-day scenario.  There were two similar movies made at the same time.  The other movie they are more successful with diverting the comet heading for Earth than this.  However, a group of astronauts sacrifice themselves in the end to divert the larger comet.  The smaller one hits and the East coast is devastated with a tidal wave.  Tea Leoni stars as Jenny Lerner the reporter on this case.  She is granted a position to be safe in a cave; but declines for a co-worker with a child.  Robert Duvall portrays an astronaut, Spurgeon Tanner, who is the old man and the only with experience landing a craft as he travelled to the moon.  Now he must land on an comet.  Elijah Wood portrays on of the co discoverers of the comet.  He is also granted a place in the shelter, but declines for a girl.  He is able to rescue the girl, and her baby sister on a motor bike.  They reach higher ground.  Lastly Morgan Freeman portrays the President who is dealing with a hopeless situation.
Entertaining movie but not terrific.

Movie Review: ***^The House of D

I was mildly surprised by this movie for the better.  I had heard some bad things about it, but wanted to watch it anyway for some time as this is the movie Zelda Williams is in (my son Mark's date to the senior prom) as well as Robin Williams.  The movie came out in 2004.  I must admit there were some things to not like.  It is about a 13 year old young man, whose best friend is the developmentally challenged janitor (Robin Williams) at the school.  On the side the deliver meat together to make money to buy a green bike.  Tommy (Anton Yelchin) the 13 year old also befriends a woman in the women's detention facility.  He also has a crush on a girl (Zelda Williams) who lives with her mother in a hotel and also has a crush on him.  So with the lady's advice from the detention facility, he goes to the dance, and dances with her, and then leaves with her.  The janitor becomes upset, and steals the bike from the store front, and then also takes their savings, and throws it into the ocean to make a wish.

So the janitor is about to lose his job.  Rather than let that happen, the 13 year old says he stole it for him.  The janitor keeps his job, but the kid is expelled.  This upsets his mother (Tea Leoni) so much she o.d.'s on pills.  As a result, he takes off, and is able to get to France, by helping himself to the money of one of their customers, who in her alzheimer's state, mistakes him for her son, an gives him the money.

So the movie is his coming to terms with his life, and his having left under unfavorable circumstances.

It was enjoyable, but the down draw was the movie's being fixated on the kid going to the restroom and shooting at his mom's cigarettes left in the toilet.