Moto and Lloyd

I’ve been watching the TV show Heroes since it’s one of the only shows that I can watch online. I am beginning to find the show somewhat depressing. There are two completely insane psychotic characters on this show. That is at least one psycho too many. The good guys are not very good. Most of them are not heroic at all. They are what I call grey characters, neither black hats nor white hats. I would enjoy the show if there was a better ratio of crazy bad guys to decent heroic guys. Too many people get killed in horrible, horrible ways for me to fully enjoy this show.

The final Mr. Moto movie in the first boxed set is Mysterious Mr. Moto. I’ll be getting set number two when I save up some money. This was an excellent movie. Mr. Moto is not just a spy, but a well known one who would put himself into terrible situations to solve a case. He escapes from Devil’s Island prison in the beginning just to win the confidence of a murderer.

I also saw the move “A History of Violence.” It was very good. The director David Cronenberg is not just about blood and guts anymore. This film’s slowly paced, well studied scenes were the best I have seen since David Lynch’s “Straight Story.” Cronenberg is even starting to develop Lynch’s hairstyle. It’s eerie.

Since Mr. Moto is all done, I have started in on a methodical watching of Harold Lloyd’s films from the boxed set of DVDs that came out a while ago. I got these discs not long after they were released, but I only watched a few movies from them when I was in the mood. Starting with Volume 1, Disc 1 I watched “Safety Last” with excellent commentary from Leonard Maltin and Rich Correll. I also watched “An Eastern Westerner” with a dilettante Harold being sent out west by his wealthy father to get some of his lazy ways out of him.