Not sure I know anyone else who saw this movie, but I thought it was really good. Reminded me a lot of No Way Out and Enemy of the State both of which I remember liking. Kim Basinger and Michael Douglas had scarily believable chemistry. Keifer was good. Even Eva was good. Thumbs up.

Very very fucking funny. A true return to form for Kevin Smith. My only caveat is that the Clerks dudes just aren’t quite as fun to watch as Jay & Silent Bob (where’s #2 of THAT movie, eh? THAT I would LOVE to see.). They’re a little bit more downtrodden. A little less willing to laugh at themselves. Although very willing for US to be laughing at them, right? 🙂 Really hilarious and at the same time, as my Dad put it, “incredibly vile.” Just what the doctor ordered.

Johnny Depp is hilariously over the top. Orlando and Keira both looked pretty although they clearly have less meaty roles. Entertaining, fun, liked lots of different things about it. Long? Eh, didn’t feel that long.

Liked the “bad guys” of the first film a little better — sure they were undead, but they weren’t as gross and gnarly as these. Think they went a bit far with the CGI gruesoming effects.

Otherwise looking forward to #3. Oh – and if you didn’t see it yet – WAIT UNTIL THE END OF THE CREDITS. My mom told me to and like the idiot I am I forgot, so I had to call home to find out what I missed. Doh!

Super cool animation/art. Surprisingly dynamic and physical.

Story line kinda creepy. The art really made the movie for me and I’m not sure I would have liked it filmed “regularly”.

Yes, fine, not a GOOD movie.

But totally satisfying in so many ways.

• The myth/magic of military tradition = Good.
  
• James Franco’s chisely cheekbones and cut, cut, cut abs = Good.
  
• Fat, funny friend = Good.
  
• Donny Wahlberg (Man, I miss Boomtown) = Good.
  
• Small-town, blue-collar angst = Good.
  
• Boxing and blood and boys with no shirts on = Good.
  
• Tortured father/son relationship = Good.
  
• Sassy girl in commanding position = Good.

What’s not to like?

Slammed as a wanna-be Officer & A Gentleman (one of the greatest movies ever). But some key plot points are quite different and make it not a direct copy. Although I’m sure I would have enjoyed it either way.

The contrast between Meryl Streep’s character/performance in this movie versus Prairie Home… Wow. She takes a lot of critical/consumer flack but she is such the consummate actress. If you didn’t KNOW, you would never guess those two characters were played by the same actress. I kiss the ground you walk on, Ms. Streep, seeing both your new flicks in one weekend was a truly awe-inspiring experience.

That said, this is not much of a movie. Anne Hathaway bored me. Where is the Anne Hathaway from “Brokeback Mountain”? Does it have to be an edgy indie movie for you to be alive and excited in it? There was so little chemistry between Hathaway and Adrien Grenier that I could not imagine caring one iota about their relationship. Booooring. And since you’re supposed to be thinking about how the Streep character’s irrational demands are destroying her employees’ personal lives…well, that only really works if you think their personal lives are worth something.

I assume the (many) weaknesses of the movie are straight from the book. Enjoyable enough, funny sometimes, but not a very good movie.

You do not need to be a fan of Garrison Keillor, or Lake Woebegone, or Prairie Home Companion itself, to like this movie. You do need to be a fan of folky/country music, laid-back often-only-funny-in-very-obscure-ways Midwestern humor and meandering circling back and forth story lines. If you liked “A Mighty Wind”, you will probably like this.

It was poignant, and sweet, and funny, and charming, and I quite enjoyed the movie overall and Meryl Streep in particular. (My mom apparently connected with Lindsay Lohan’s character the most. If you could have heard how my Dad described that to me…PRICELESS.)

Oh and the songs Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly sing…and their characters in general…what a HOOT!

Ugh. Was the script Diane Lane and Jon Cusack read originally better? Enough so to convince them to do this movie? Because it was not. very. good. at. all.

I bought this a while ago and never got around to watching it. Which just proves I’m a moron because this is a great movie and I can only hazard a guess that the stars’ extracurricular activities (Billy Crudup and Claire Danes hooking up on this movie and Crudup dumping his 7 months pregnant girlfriend Mary-Louise Parker) kept people from going to it (yes, Jen, I’m thinking of you and assuming that would give you even more pause than the Brangelina situation did over “Mr & Mrs. Smith”).

It’s just beautiful. Heartbreakingly, wrenchingly, poignantly beautiful. How do you find yourself again when all that is YOU has been lost? Ouch.

Crudup is amazing. And there’s a pretty humorous scene where you cannot help but notice (if you haven’t before) how incredibly flatchested Danes is as she has to bare her breast basically “to show she’s a woman” yet when she bares it…well, I’m not sure that proved anything! Ah ha ha ha ha. I used to feel your pain, Claire, 35-some pounds ago…