Stand By Me

 

            Continuing with movies I need to see on my brother’s list of movies I need to see. We pay tribute to the late Rob Reiner who recently passed, though technically was murdered by his own son. Though we're not going into any details nor going to dive deep into that fork in the road because it's more tragic than David Carradine. Stand By Me, is a eighties classic directed by Rob Reiner as well as staring Wil Wheaton, the late River Phoenix, child actor legend Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell long before he married Rebecca Romjin.

            After learning that a stranger had been accidently killed near their rural homes, four Oregon boys (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell) decide to go see the body. Along the way the four boys have a life-changing experience that re-shapes their lives as well as their future. 

            I'm not sure the last time I dived into a kids staring movie I think it was going back in time when the Sandlot was this awesome movie and then watching that movie I felt a little on the cringe side just because Smalls was not knowing baseball and his throwing arm may have been on the cringe side either way just not knowing baseball was just meh, either way it's been a long time and I may need to re-watch the movie sometime. Though with this movie this certainly does feel like a breath of fresh air, moreover does have that comedic feel to it but more importantly you actually feel for four characters and you actually relate to them in a strange way, though my Dad and Mom always loved me and my brother as well as my sister but the way both of these boys actually share their pain on screen is really good acting on the boys part and that's some great direction from Rob Reiner if you ask me. The film is based on Stephan King's short stories or novella which ever that word means, for which is surprising now because I watched the first IT movie in 2017 and thought that was a billion times better than Tim Curry as well as loving the Shawshank Redemption moreover the surprising factor is that some of the non-scary films adapted by Stephan King is much better than the scary ones which I guess is not surprising considering a lot of Stephan King's movies are consisted with him directed a lot of his books. And yet a surprising factor Rob Reiner actually show King the movie in a private screening and King was so, shaken by the film and later King told Rob that this was the greatest adaption of his work he's ever seen, furthermore this maybe the second time I'd agree with Stephan King on, (the other will get to that later) for many great reasons is that this film provides a lot of great coming of age themes as well as great drama through the course of the film that is both refreshing and great at the same time. I would highly recommend watching Stand By Me, because as I said earlier you relate to these four boys and their personal struggles and almost like Good Will Hunting, it has that good and personal drama where we can relate to these characters and their struggles and to me that's what makes good drama in movies not like the Nicholas Sparks crap or any Soap Opera's or Telenovelas' that all the women in planet Earth enjoy. So, if you have a copy of this movie or feel like renting something on your phone than I would highly recommend watching Stand By Me, and hell you can also have your kids sit down and enjoy because I would claim this to be a kid friendly and sure their some swear word or cussing involved but all you got to do is tell your kid not to say those words till they get older and decide whether to shout out the F word in public, which I think all of us millennials have learned in life if you ask me.