Watched a Couple of Indie Films

El Camino (2019). A deserved and necessary love letter to Jesse Pinkman, who was somewhat neglected in the final episodes of Breaking Bad. Since I was very attached to Jesse, that made me the perfect audience for this tense thriller about his flight from cops and criminals alike. It also made me realize I was far more fond of Breaking Bad than I'd thought at the time, because just a few months later here I was getting honestly nostalgic at the various returning characters featured. There were flashbacks to various dead people, everyone was exactly in character, and par for the course, it also looked beautiful and had a perfectly calibrated script. This film did right by Jesse, and I was therefore completely satisfied with it.

Hard Core Logo (1996). This is probably not something I would have ever watched, except it was on YouTube and someone told me it had John Pyper-Ferguson in it, so I killed part of an afternoon and gave it a whirl. Although visually not that far removed from Brian Cullen's aesthetic, he once again sported a different accent and manner of movement, making him functionally unrecognizable (he wasn't even homicidal in this outing). All told, this makes it hard to define what I find so compelling in his characters. It also had Callum Keith Rennie, a name I vaguely recognized. Turns out he was also on Highlander, in an episode I almost never rewatch, because he was the only fun part of it. He's apparently a Big Deal in the realm of cult actors and this film is renowned and respected, and I had no idea in the world when I sat down with it.

( Spoilers, as I recap the whole thing below. )