Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as March. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

There are two movies here. There is a sweet, intelligent comedy saying some interesting things and exploring characters you might like to see more of. And then there is the really, really stupid movie about the stupidest dumb jokes you’ve ever heard and some of the worst physical comedy you’ve ever seen onscreen.

The sweet intelligent comedy is completely dragged down and destroyed by the stupid not-funny parts and unless you are into “setting your fart on fire” (literally) comedy, you wil find yourself very disappointed by what could have been but wasn’t.

They could have cut John C. Reilly’s entire part and that would immediately make this movie far more enjoyable and better-written.

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as February. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

Not a smart or well-written comedy. Not a movie that makes much sense.

If you think the stars are pretty people, you will have that to enjoy when they are onscreen.

But it’s one of those movies that makes you regret the fact that “rom com” and “chick flick” have become things producers try to make, because they fall far, far, far, far short here of what those types of movies could, and should, be.

But you should have known all that from the previews. I certainly did. I just wanted to look at pretty people for a couple hours, so I went anyway. 🙂 There’s no accounting for it.

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as February. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

This is a bad movie in many, MANY ways, but perhaps worst of all in its timing. These are not the people to feel sorry for in a depression / recession / whatever this is. Some idiot who makes six figures but spends so much that when he’s out of work, he is losing his house within three months? There are honest, hard-working, NON-slimeballs out there who’ve been laid off solely due to the economy and looking for jobs for forever and I don’t know WHO the producers of this movie thought could POSSIBLY have been an audience for this. But the fact that they have all gone off and started a new business together by the end? COME ON.

Almost ALL the characters in this movie are complete jerks. I love you, Ben Affleck, for giving me The Town but whatever made you think this movie was a good choice? Not only is it an ill-timed movie about jerks but your character is the biggest jerk of all. His KID is more in tune with the reality of the situation and he completely blows him off.

Also some of the non-Boston actors in this movie have The Most Ridiculous Overwrought Boston Accents you have ever heard (Kevin Costner, Rosemarie DeWitt, I’m looking at you two in particular).

The only thing I unequivocally liked about this movie was Rosemarie DeWitt’s wardrobe. (Mostly jeans, cute boots, snug sweaters.) That is IT.

Tommy Lee Jones played the most interesting character…but being the most interesting of this bunch is not saying much.

Bad, bad, and hey, bad.

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as February. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

The people who made this movie seemed to have missed a very important element here: ladies do not go to Jason Statham movies to see him wearing a buttoned-up cardigan the entire time. He is shirtless once, maybe twice, IN THE ENTIRE MOVIE.

They so missed the boat on that one.

Some fun fight scenes. But you know, it’s not his best movie. (I recommend The Bank Job over all others, of course.)

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as January. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

This wasn’t much of a movie, I was really surprised to see it up for awards. Sure, Angelina was pretty and Depp played befuddled nicely… But the twist at the end was SO OBVIOUS and there wasn’t all that much that was very interesting about it. I’d see it for free, on a plane maybe. But I wouldn’t go out of my way. I certainly wouldn’t pay $ for the DVD.

Yes, it is June and I am posting about movies I saw as far back as January. Trying to get caught up this weekend! We shall see…

I had just watched 1-6 on DVD as I had only seen the first couple long ago… I thought this was by far the best film. But it is also the one I wasn’t quilting through the watching of, so… I liked when they were out camping on their own.

Some derivative moments though. Maybe it’s the movies moreso than the book, but there were so many times when all I could think about was Lord of the Rings.

I still prefer the Pullman books (His Dark Materials trilogy) to these, as I have all along– especially after watching these movies. These are entertaining, but seem much more formulaic to me and the story/ideas/execution seem less original than Pullman.

Small, quiet, kinda painful (emotionally).

I feel mixed on this one. You are seeing, at the same time, the very beginning of the relationship and the very end. So you have to sorta take it on faith that the middle was…better? worthwhile? not just loving (beginning) or fighting (ending)?

There’s a small secret there, spun out very slowly, that has an almost Memento-like effect of changing how you feel about things that happened earlier…

Shot really small and intimately, the sex scenes were kinda hard to watch: I felt like I was intruding on them! As if I had just walked into the room.

I also felt like this had a lot of (unintended) similarities to Wendy & Lucy. You could almost picture this as being the same character, a few years later (or, in the flashbacks, from around the same time).

I liked it and I’m glad I saw it, but…I didn’t completely fall in love with it.