movies

[Schlich]

Would it be cliched to say "Trouble with the Curve" is cliched?

yeah, i saw that one yesterday. Way, way too over the top. it wasn't terrible though.

[Freed Roger]

Would it be cliched to say "Trouble with the Curve" is cliched?

yeah, i saw that one yesterday. Way, way too over the top. it wasn't terrible though.

Not too awful for home viewing. Kind of funny that the over the top stuff saves it.
One of those movies that is lame to awful for a solid half of it. So after sticking that out, I willingly eat the cornpone at the end, because I'm starved to get something positive out of it.

And a brief word on Clint the Actor. For decades he managed to play the same general badass character and it rarely got old. But now just a few movies into playing the crusty edgy Archie Bunker - it's gotten boring already. Should have hung this role up after Gran Torino.

[MrSaigon]

Life of Pi is pretty good, but some of the sequences are absolutely magic in 3D

[Maclowery]

Just got home from Django: Unchained. Very entertaining. Felt a lot like Inglourious Basterds, which is not a bad thing. Many terrific lines. I got somewhat bored/restless about two hours in, but that's partially due to my general distaste of Westerns and minor nitpick of Tarantino's consistent lull 2/3rds into his movies.

Great soundtrack.

[Radbird]

We saw Silver Linings Playbook over the weekend. I protested, telling wife and daughter that I wasn't interested in seeing a chick flick, but I was wrong.

It was an excellent film. Cooper and Lawrence were great and I loved DeNiro's character.

[thrill]

This is 40 was not entertaining at all. Too long, too boring, too narrow and no stakes.

[Schlich]

Life of Pi is pretty good, but some of the sequences are absolutely magic in 3D

the revelation of Richard Parker was pure art.

[go birds]

We saw Silver Linings Playbook over the weekend. I protested, telling wife and daughter that I wasn't interested in seeing a chick flick, but I was wrong.

It was an excellent film. Cooper and Lawrence were great and I loved DeNiro's character.

I will incite a riot if no one gets an Oscar for this movie

[cardinalkarp]

I thought Killer Joe was terrible. Too many over the top characters in some wannabe Coen brothers story with no budget. I never bought mcconaughey's character for one second and without that the movie doesn't stand a chance.

Yeah, I agree. Killer Joe was lame. I had no clue what it was going into it which I'm not sure helped or hurt the film.

One movie I watched we was really surprised I enjoyed was called Ruby Sparks. Interesting name, which would've kept me from renting it, but my wife picked it out. It was a really clever movie that I enjoyed quite a bit.

[JL21]

Django was fun as hell. I was almost in tears laughing during the baghead scene.

Tarantino has matured in his last two films. He's no longer making Tarantino films, so much as he's making genre films with a Tarantino flair. With all due respect to everything pre-Basterds, I no longer feel like he's spending 2-3 hours screaming "HEY, LOOK AT WHAT I CAN DO!" in his movies.