movies

[JL21]

More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside.

[MrSaigon]

If you liked Adam Sandler's "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison," you'll probably like "Jack and Jill."

I did like this one, though:

It is indeed every bit as lousy as it looks. So kudos to the marketing department, I guess. They nailed this one.

[Maclowery]

No surprise at all, I predicted it a few months ago, but of course Armond White gave it (Jack and Jill) a positive review. He's gotta be doing some weird social experiment or something, right? For awhile, he was just an obnoxious guy that kept panning widely-acclaimed movies. Over the past two or three years, he's evolved his schtick to pretty absurd levels. Dissed Toy Story 3, which everyone and Bin Laden liked. Dissed Dark Knight, then a year later lauded Transformers 2.

The guy sells page-views, I guess.

[cardsfantx]

ok, jack and jill looks awful, but what the hell is wrong with happy gilmore/billy madison??

[Schlich]

ok, jack and jill looks awful, but what the hell is wrong with happy gilmore/billy madison??

ha, i just looked those up too.

Critics aren't generally too fond of slapstick comedy. Dumb and Dumber only got a 63% for crying out loud.

[cpebbles]

No surprise at all, I predicted it a few months ago, but of course Armond White gave it (Jack and Jill) a positive review. He's gotta be doing some weird social experiment or something, right? For awhile, he was just an obnoxious guy that kept panning widely-acclaimed movies. Over the past two or three years, he's evolved his schtick to pretty absurd levels. Dissed Toy Story 3, which everyone and Bin Laden liked. Dissed Dark Knight, then a year later lauded Transformers 2.

The guy sells page-views, I guess.

I suspect most people gave up actually reading his reviews quite a while ago. They check to verify that he did in fact give the contrarian view and go off laughing about it.

Rotten Tomatoes would probably drop him off the Tomatometer since he's been run out of any meaningful media platforms he stumbled his way into and is basically on the level of a high school newspaper critic these days, but RT is almost certainly profiting off him more than any of his employers ever have.

[AdmiralKird]

I watched Battle: Los Angeles and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Battle: LA was pretty good. It was the most realistic alien invasion movie I've ever seen. It's told from the Marine's perspective, as the civilian population is just almost completely massacred.

RotPotA was also good. I really like it when films have that "eureka" moment, and I felt it was really well done in the film. I didn't really like the CEO character who constantly kept reminding the audience he's in it for the money. I wish all the human characters had more substance, they were just kind of...dull.

[lukethedrifter]

Inception.

Entertaining thriller and not nearly as confusing and muddled as people had suggested but then maybe they hadn't seen Memento.

[thrill]

J Edgar was boring and you get the sense that despite his notoriety not much is known about him. The nature of his relationships are all speculative etc. Not mandatory.

[Freed Roger]

J Edgar was boring and you get the sense that despite his notoriety not much is known about him. The nature of his relationships are all speculative etc. Not mandatory.

I'll still eventually watch it, but I was kind of wondering about that after hearing some J Edgar historians on NPR. And the guy's career was so long - it almost would be better to make a move about one episode that J Edgar was involved with (and there are many) and make it one that is semi-verifiable. I'd rather read a J Edgar book than see a movie that tries to capture his entire career