movies

[go birds]

Watched Too Big To Fail last night.

I thought it was a pretty good movie. It did a good job of dumbing down why the economy collapsed for those of us who didn't really understand what happened.

[Freed Roger]

Watched Serpico (1973) last night. A role that Pacino clearly relished. Based on a true story of NY cop Frank Serpico, who helped expose the corruption in NYPD. Redundancies with the storyline. Some nice looking 1970s ta tas. A cool vintage look at NYC.

[heyzeus]

Saw Bridesmaids over the weekend. It had some legitimately funny parts, and some dumb parts, and some standard rom-com parts (actually, a lot of it). I don't get what all the hype was about.

[The Third Man]

Just saw Midnight In Paris.

Um, Woody Allen bats just above the Mendoza line for me, but his hits are always dingers, so in that sense he is like the Mark Reynolds of directors for me. The things I hate most about his movies are the lack of moral accountability the characters he bases off himself face and the self indulgence of his writing, casting and locales. I get the sense he only makes movies for himself and people like him which annoys me because I am not one of those people. Like I said though, I'm not a total hater.

Anyway, this movie was fun. His obvious self-indulgence sometimes annoys me, but this was so over the top self-indulgent that it worked. He basically cast the idealized version of himself (Owen Wilson) to hang out with his heroes in his favorite city to help him escape from an awful relationship with a girl completely wrong for him. It was fun and if you are into nostalgia, it's a great movie. If you're a Francophile, it's a great movie. If you love Jazz age art, it's a great movie. I like all of those things to varying degrees so I enjoyed it. There were still some annoying caricatures of the kind of Americans he doesn't like (clichéd patriots/republican/corporate types) and of course he portrayed the kind of Americans he does like (himself) as the enlightened, funny, self-effacing likable character and of course gives himself everything his heart desires at the end.

I liked it. I'd recommend it even if you're not into Woody Allen but I don't ever need to see it again.

Haha - I'm a bigger Allen fan than you in general, but I agree with your opinion. It's clearly indulgent as all hell, but I'm a sucker for Allen so that didn't bother me in the slightest. And I also went in without knowing the premise at all, so when:

[SHOW]

I realized that Owen Wilson was actually meeting that F. Scott Fitzgerald

I quietly muttered "Oh no way" and had a huge grin on my face, which didn't go away for a long time. Most fun Woody Allen movie in I don't know how long.

[thrill]

Yeah I bet it would have been even more fun had I not known the premise. Then again, had I not known the premise, I wouldn't have seen it.

[thrill]

Speaking of Woody Allen: http://vimeo.com/25024564

[Numbers]

Just saw Speed 2, what can I say?

[tothebeach08]

Bridesmaids was pretty funny in parts, alot better than I thought it would be. But I love the girl who played the chubby girl, she's on Mike and Molly and I love that show.

I watched Clerks for the first time this past weekend. I had no idea what to expect going into it, but I thought it was very funny.

[JL21]

The trailer for Moneyball, coming out late September. I get the feeling it's going to reach to dramatize things and will canonize Billy Beane. Oh, and that fat [expletive] Jonah Hill is Paul DePodesta, but they gave him a new name (probably because DePo didn't give his approval or whatever). Long story short, I'm dreading this almost as much as I'm excited for it. Jump 50 seconds in for the trailer.

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[Jocephus]

yeah, i think as a baseball fan i'll enjoy it but as an overall movie it'll suck