I watched Mystic River tonight. (I’m a little behind on my renting and watching; about a year.) It was a good movie, I thought. Lots of intense, dramatic acting. You just can’t beat a cast like that, and a good script based on a good book. But …

It tried really hard to lose me in the last two minutes. That whole thing with the parade was completely absurd. And the bedroom scene with Sean Penn’s character & his wife was just overwritten to the point of being abjectly yucky. The movie ended when Kevin Bacon got in his car and drove off. They should’ve panned down to the names etched in the sidewalked, and faded to black. What was Eastwood thinking?