Hunter S. Thompson wrote the book The Rum Diary back in 1961 when he knew very well what the demon rum was all about. Even the screenplay writer/director, Bruce Robinson was familiar with boozing being had sworn off alcohol over six years before but went back to it just to finish the screenplay that writer's block was keeping him from completing. That's dedication! ohnny Depp (Ed Wood, Donnie Brasco) is freelance journalist Paul Kemp, himself one of those lost souls he writes about. Determined to self destruct it's obvious this rag tag bunch of humanities leftovers just seem to drink their lives away. But Kemp falls for a woman that brightens up his days. Chenault is played by Amber Heard (Pineapple Express, Zombieland) and is Kemp's obsession as he drinks his days away in Puerto Rico.hat makes a movie about drunks and their ability to consume volumes of fermented sugarcane (rum) interesting? It's about the lost souls that seem to have given up on life and what they leave behind, like lovers, families, and life they're afraid to face. And Thompson's writing makes it all seem to work perhaps because The Rum Diary is about his life...

Dirty Harry is a movie that was released in 1971 and stars Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan, a San Francisco police inspector. The movie follows Harry as he tries to track down a serial killer known as Scorpio, who is terrorizing the city with a series of brutal murders. As Harry gets closer to Scorpio, he must decide how far he is willing to go to bring him to justice.

Filmed in the magnificent county of Dublin and surrounding area in Ireland, Haywire is action packed and well written. The beautiful Mallory Kane, a covert operative freelancer, has been hired out on jobs many governments find disrespectful but need to be done. She has just completed a mission to Barcelona in which she saved the day in a hostage situation when called upon to go to Dublin, Ireland. Mallory soon finds she was double crossed and in order to escape from a manhunt that ends up international in proportion, she will need to call on all her tricks, skills, and abilities in order to get back home to her family in the United States. Along the way Mallory will have the opportunity to get revenge against those she found have betrayed her and threatened her life. An intrepid covert operative, Mallory Kane finds the romantic lifestyle she is living nearly too much for her to handle this time. An exciting movie, Haywire delivers plenty of action and adventure.

Eagle Eye is a movie that was released in 2008 and stars Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan. The movie follows two strangers, Jerry and Rachel, who are forced to follow a series of dangerous tasks by an unknown woman who has taken control of their lives through their cell phones and other technology. As they race against time to complete these tasks, they begin to uncover a conspiracy that threatens their lives and the safety of the entire country.

Lone Survivor is a movie that was released in 2013 and stars Mark Wahlberg. The movie is based on the true story of a failed U.S. Navy SEALs mission in Afghanistan. Wahlberg plays Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of the mission, who must fight for survival as he is pursued by Taliban forces through the Afghan wilderness.

In a more sophisticated "golden age" when American public schools actually taught people to read, Hollywood made movies from literature—Grapes of Wrath, for example, or To Have and Have Not. According to Oliver Stone, in the 1990s, film became the literature of the age. In 2011, driven by a fetish for "CG integration," Hollywood adopted the comic book as its model of choice. Not "the graphic novel," which has a slightly more elevated ring to it. No. The comic book. "Comic book novices may have difficulty differentiating their Green super-heroes: The Green Lantern does not attract The Green Hornet as moth to flame. Green Lantern may, however, attract almost as many teen girls as teen geeks, because it features Ryan Reynolds, People Magazine's sexiest man, archetype of "obscenely cut" abs. Critics already have remarked and documented strong similarities between Green Lantern and the IronMan series. Given its comic book origins, you know how Green Lantern goes: Cocky gonna-be super-hero must grow into and take responsibility for his super-powers. He becomes part of an inter-galactic super-squadron charged to protect and serve the universe. Of course, hard-rockin' soundtrack and jaw-droppingly attractive women, both good and evil, accompany him wherever he goes. "After summer's spate of cartoon movies, literate viewers may wax nostalgic for Hemingway in collaboration with Bogart and Steinbeck inspiring Henry Fonda.