This week’s Friday Night Flick is based on the true story of George Jung, also known as “Boston George”. George is currently spending hard time in the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, surprisingly for being caught smuggling 1,754 pounds of marijuana in 1994, not his infamous smuggle of choice; the cocaine.
On Friday, APTN will be showing the film Blow (2001). The story follows George Jung (Johnny Depp), a young man from a blue-collar family as he climbs in the ranks of the drug trade and becomes a major part of a drug cartel responsible for 85% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States in the 1970’s.
As always Johnny Depp plays the character so well, you begin to see yourself rooting for the “bad guy”. Unfortunately, since it is based on a true story we know or can figure out how it ends. Unlike a lot of the movies in which we know how they end, this one is all about the substance in between. No pun intended. This movie really shows how times have changed in the past 40-some years.
I’ve been trying to convince Kernel that selling and smuggling illegal items is not the answer to any of life’s problems and like Mr. Jung will show us in this one; can take your freedom away. He says he has a box full of money under my bed. I would have to call shenanigans on that one. I’m pretty sure he’s just trying to get me all riled up and it’s just a bunch of paper with his drawings of his own face on them. I’d rather not look anyway. I learned about looking into his “personal” containers during last week’s Friday Night Flick Desperado, when he had some … “questionable” photos of himself and suggestive items in his guitar case. NEVER again!! I’m scarred for life.
Well, I hope you enjoy this film as much as I do. Join us again for Friday, January 21 when we watch the awesome 80’s classic Predator with you, starring the Governator himself – Ah-nold Schwarzenegger.
Thanks for stopping by!

Chantelle

So this week’s movie has Chantelle visiting the post office looking at the most wanted posters looking for my face. I don’t know what she’s so worried about. Just because I have a few extra bucks. In a box. Under her bed. And just because last week she peeked in my guitar case and didn’t like what she found in there…. I told her not to look!

Anyway, we were getting ready for this week’s movie Blow starring the ultra cool dude Johnny Depp and I was telling her how I could relate to some of the lines you sometimes have to cross to look after your family.  Like the time I had to saw my way out of the ’spa’ I was staying at and hide in the back of her car. I did that for her. I could see that she needed me. And sometimes a guy has to do dangerous things to protect his turf . Like when I have to show that cat from next door who’s the boss around here.  So, I get it.

Johnny’s such a fun guy, too. I remember the time we were on that ship and we were pretending to be pirates. And that other time when we were riding the horses through that really spooky forest running away from the headless guy. Good times. Good times.

Enjoy the movie. See you Friday.

Kernel.