This was acceptable. Some issues but Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz had some pretty nice chemistry and there were some great action-evolving-into-other-things scenes between the two of them. I liked the way they both tied it to the other Bourne movies and yet tried to give it some substance of its own.

(I have my issues with those movies as well. I mean the books are fantastic 100%, the first movie made a lot of stupid dumb choices. The second and third movies were better, thanks to Paul Greengrass, but still off track given they had to follow the choices the first set up. Still I do usually like this type of movie and I expect I will continue to. So there.)

Really enjoyed this. Thought the previews, and the title, were a bit misleading however. It’s really not the story of a couple as much as it is the story of Celeste dealing with the ending of her relationship and finding a new road.

The music was lovely, the acting was nice, and sure it was sweet and somewhat predictable but it’s not the Hollywood ending and it’s not a slam you down ending either. Nice.

I felt degraded and abused enough–and perhaps unable to ever eat chicken again–after this movie that I just cannot recommend it.

Sure, Matthew McConaughey does his role very well. So what? Sometimes that’s not enough to make a movie worth sitting through. (See “There Will Be Blood.” Career performance from DDL does not make that a movie I ever, ever, ever want to see again.)

Also: Every Single Person in this movie is a shallow jerk. You have no one to root for! NO ONE! Even the presumed naive victim just seems dumb, not wounded or someone you should care about.

Icky.

I really liked this in the end but it feels pretty formulaic for about the first 20-30 minutes. It seems like they’re giving too much away and you think “how are they going to drag this out for 2 hours” but then a new element gets added in. So I thought it got a lot more complex as it went along and in the end there were characters I really cared about the outcome for. Emily Blunt is amazing.

Did feel like Piper should have turned that role down or perhaps pointed out that the nudity was completely gratuitous (her character was clearly destitute without that).

Plus JGL and the director were there for a post-movie Q&A (I saw it at a screening a month or so before it came out) and JGL was wearing bright green socks and being super cute. So perhaps that colored my reaction. PERHAPS.

So ridiculous and actually pretty bad, I was very disappointed. Woody and what’s her name seemed like they had just met an hour before, not been married for years and that was just one of the things in this movie that was off kilter. Super stiff dialogue.

I recommend you watch Midnight in Paris instead.

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.

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.

It gets harder and harder to make it through movies with kids in bad situations. This is a very emotionally affecting movie that thankfully has enough of a fairy tale aspect to not throw you completely into despair. I was really swept into the story and definitely needed kleenex for the last 10 minutes or so.

On the other hand, while it completely works within the mood & tone of the film, but there is a LOT of soft-focus fuzzy filmmaking throughout the flick and there were several points at which my eyes had just really had enough of that (I’m such a cranky old lady).