Saw this a few weeks ago and thought it was great. Read it was a “wicked-psycho-sexual-thriller” and so I decided I better do my homework and make sure it wasn’t too crazy. But it didn’t seem more inappropriate than I could handle. Unfortunately, while checking the content I found out more about the movie than I needed to know before I saw it.
Overall, not one of my favorites and I probably wouldn’t watch it again for a long time, or at least very few more times. But I really enjoyed it. Thought it was a quality film; very exciting. Not to mention Mila Kunis is in my Top 10.
listening to Learning How to Die by Jon Foreman on @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/teWg #nowplaying
listening to Aston Martin Music (Ft. Drake And Chrisette Michele) by Rick Ross on @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/y59o #nowplaying
About 90% of the time, when I begin to watch a movie, I’m more than a little bit scared that I will be wasting my time. When this movie began, it only moved that meter up from a little bit to ummm…why did I get this movie? Continuous profanity (mostly the f word) and, as it was with A Hard Day’s Night, I couldn’t totally pick up on the British accent. But as soon as I began to think about turning it off it got a lot better. Found quite a few laugh-out-loud moments and an interesting cast and plot. Glad I saw it.
Surprisingly good. Had a good enough story-line to support 95 minutes with no screenshots outside a coffin; that’s a win for me. I’m a big fan of Ryan Reynolds and this movie definitely helped. But don’t watch if you’re claustrophobic..
I watched Letters from Iwo Jima first. It was great. Ken Wantabe was perfect for this role. I’m not sure how historically accurate it is but I continually was frustrated with the Japanese army. How they would simply give up at the smallest ounce of failure was totally past me.
So, that fact alone made me want to move past this film and on to the American counterpart Flags of Our Fathers. But it was worse. I wouldn’t consider it a true war film because it really had few scenes of the war. And the Americans ended up frustrating me more than the Japanese.
Overall, Letters from Iwo Jima was a great movie and Flags of Our Fathers was just okay.
Oh, and in Flags of Our Fathers, there was definitely some Helvetica Text in a banner at a convention during the war. Too bad WWII ended in 1945 and Helvetica wasn’t invented until 1957. Shame on you Clint Eastwood.
listening to Say You Need Love by Newsboys on @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/jDw3 #nowplaying
Highlight: It was never boring.
Lowlight(s): Bad writing for a decent story idea, poor acting.
Insight: Sometimes you simply need a movie with action and violence and cheesy lines to help you realize how great are the movies you have been watching.
listening to A Cycle by Moses Mayfield on @Grooveshark: http://tinysong.com/wOnH #nowplaying - Miss these guys.
