Liked it but not as much as I wanted to. (Didn’t fulfill my Ben Affleck fangirl needs, frankly. I don’t feel any urge to see this one again whereas I am still not done rewatching The Town.)
Didn’t feel as tense as I expected. Saw Arbitrage a week or whatever later and that was MUCH MORE the tension I felt should have been in Argo.
Acceptable enough but didn’t live up to the hype.
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Yes, there are holes you could find in the plot after the fact.
BUT I really liked this movie, both in the moment and afterward. It was super tense, pulled out almost to the breaking point, and there were some really excellent performances.
I liked it even more after listening to director Nicholas Jarecki’s interview on The Treatment with Elvis Mitchell, my favorite and most often listened to podcast.
The one place I felt the movie really faltered was in the girlfriend/Richard Gere relationship. Make us think he actually loves her and this film would be that much stronger. As it is, she’s too irrelevant for some of the plot points.
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I just read Phantom Tollbooth in May–loved the wordplay. Really a LOT of fun to read as an adult. (If I read it as a child (?) I had forgotten it.)
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Gee, what happened in September? Well I started my first official “my own classroom” teaching job (I did have a teaching job in the spring but it was a maternity leave position in someone else’s classroom. Then we teachers went on strike and I was insanely busy going to the picket line and going to rallies and talking to my coworkers and I got no reading done whatsoever. And three of the four books I did eventually manage to read in the month were ones I wanted to review for the kids from our classroom library. Yeah, it was a crazy month.
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August was a great month of reading. Getting ready for school but full of free time.
I used to post more about politics. I honestly try to avoid thinking about anything connected to that for even one second because of the swell of immense anger and disappointment that immediately surges up. But honestly if you would vote for people who believe these things are the right things to do, then you and I are at completely opposite ends of the pole of what is acceptable to think AS A DECENT HUMAN BEING and what is not. And that’d be ME on the side of acceptable and you making a choice that other people don’t matter even one tiny bit.
Life begins practically at the THOUGHT of it. The rich get crazy crazy richer (without any effort on their part) and the poor are left to die unmedicated in the gutter? Ryan & Romney = truly revolting and despicable.
That’s the definition of INHUMANE at its very core.
Just an FYI that today, August 6, I went back and wrote quick reviews of all 22 movies I’ve seen so far this year! But since I was writing in reverse order and didn’t feel like having a post on, say, The Descendants, a movie most people saw last year, at the top of my already very neglected blog, I decided to post-date all the reviews back to around about when I saw the movies. So if you want to hear what I had to say, you may just want to go to the watchin’ category page and read from there.
My favorites of the year so far were Pariah (so good, see Ebert’s review which I think is what made me need to see this), Cabin in the Woods, A Separation and Moonrise Kingdom. I thought Tinker, Tailor was great as well but again that’s a movie many people will have seen in 2011. Pariah and Cabin in the Woods should be (?) out on DVD, I would think, and you should seek them out. Both so SO good, in completely different ways.
I thought this movie was a completely convoluted mess. But apparently that opinion may get you death threats. So, yeah, I liked it just fine. #butnot
Anne Hathaway was great and certainly the best part of the movie.
This may be a spoiler (but come on, the movie’s been out for a month).
The biggest of many ridiculous things about this movie: if you’re going to put your villain in a face mask, HAVE A LEGIT (& LOGICAL) REASON FOR IT. And have it be meaningful within the plot of the film.
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Too much for a girl without a job but I did buy most of it with gift cards, so…
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