July 20, 2014I've always loved Bud Cort, and despite having been interested in seeing 'Bates Motel' for many years, I had never watched it until now. It was decent. It felt like it could have been much better, though. I haven't looked into the making of 'Bates Motel', but it seemed like it had to have been a TV pilot that didn't get picked up so they made it into a feature. Cort played Alex, a young man in a mental asylum who met and befriended Norman Bates. When Bates died, he left his motel to Alex who, upon release from the institution, decided to reopen for business. He met Lori Petty, a drifter who broke in to the motel, and the two of them worked together to get the place back up and running. Things went smooth for a while, although there may or may not have been a ghost in the main building. Then things got weird and took on a whole different feeling. Jason Bateman and a bunch of other kids showed up to the motel and had a party but they all turned out to have a different agenda which I won't spoil here. To say the least, it felt like the second episode of a TV show, not a complete movie. That isn't to say I didn't enjoy it, because I did.
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