A to Z Challenge 2020 - K

Killshot (2009)
Director: John Madden
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Rosario Dawson, Thomas Jane
Brief Thoughts: With this one I’m not going to talk about the movie itself (still baffles me that Joseph Gordon-Levitt has had such a hard time finding respect with audiences, though, despite years of interesting material), but how I ended up watching it. I spent five years working at a bookstore chain. One of the things I got to experience was special ordering. Special ordering is great, don’t get me wrong (I suspect people using it, especially at a bookstore chain, either can’t figure out ordering on the internet, don’t trust the internet, or it’s the only way some of them interact with the outside world), but it was always interesting. This particular guy, whether because customer service is always uneven or not, but he was always grumpy. He claimed we never got any of the really good movies inside the store (he always called in his orders), which forced him to special order. Killshot is a fine movie, but I’m not sure I would call it a really good movie. Different tastes, sure, but...Anyway, in the long run I guess I did end up agreeing with him about it once. I special ordered myself a copy of Tom Hardy’s Bronson, which was a really good movie, and would never have passed through the store otherwise. Still, I doubt this guy would have ever seen it, or thought to. Different tastes, sure. Anyway, I still remember his name, a decade later, and not just because I used it for a story. So there’s that!