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Twelve Favorite Movies:
It's A Wonderful Life
The Godfather
Pulp Fiction
Jaws
Groundhog Day
Aliens
Schindler's List
Paths of Glory
No Country for Old Men
Goodfellas
Fight Club
Dr. Strangelove
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P.S. I Love You (2007)
Turgidly overly sentimental and sickeningly cute.
Gerald Butler is charming enough, and the Million Dollar Baby, Hillary Swank has charisma to spare. Still this movie with all the acting talent on hand is a clunker of a romantic comedy. It's buck up and move on theme is over done with bad dialog to spare. Especially unfunny is how much the in-laws hated her, and how much her mother didn't like him I'm a guy who loves a well done chick flick. And this isn't one of them. My advice to all you nice women who are wanting to see something sentimental and sweet: watch "Return to Me" or "The Princess Bride" again instead. And for all you girls who love your boyfriend's and husbands consider letting them walk the dog instead. Let us off the hook, we watched Sex in the City with you and were happy, but this show really is for women only. P.S. i love you has it's heart in the right place, but goes on and on, and we wonder what was Harry Connick Jr thinking taking the part of such a loser?
Wanted (2008)
Wanted: Stylish, Derivative, and Hollow.
After seeing James McAvoy in Last King of Scotland, and Atonement, it was certainly jarring to hear his "American" accent. And this wouldn't be the only thing jarring about the movie. It earns its R rating easily by being very violent, perhaps irredeemably violent. I have nothing against violence in movies either, but I don't go to movies for the violence, I go for involving story, and Wanted for all its cool camera work and follow the bullet imagery just didn't grab me. The action is topnotch, but unlike the Bourne movies not set in reality, which should be cool but is less then expected, and Wanted certainly doesn't have the emotional resonance of those movies either. The chase in Bourne Ultimatum on the roof tops, playing cat and mouse, then the fight to the death; Wanted being rated R doesn't have anything as suspenseful or intense.
Finally for all I respect McAvoy as an actor I didn't enjoy him in this. His character is a whiny wimp,who's transformed into a elite skilled assassin. His scared act is played for laughs,for me it was just annoying. And the journey from wimp to badass really has been done better in movies that Wanted uses for inspiration: Fight Club, the Matrix seem to be quoted freely both as ideas and visually. I was ready to be blown away by this and just felt the director has the technical chops, and a very capable cast, but the script was just derivative, it gave the actors little material to really bite into, making them into movable pieces in the action scenes. This makes me appreciate something like what Tarantino is able to accomplish in grade A superior action junk food like Kill Bill. Wanted is getting decent reviews, but for me it was a disappointment.
Going in Style (1979)
is the little girl Amy Adams?
Amy Adams from Junebug. Catch Me if You Can. Talladega Nights, etc. is a dead ringer for the uncredited little girl. She was born in 74 and Going in Style came out in 79. Anyone know if that's her in this movie?
Interesting that such a nice natural adorable performance, just her playing with her Uncle Art Carney wouldn't be credited.
As far as the movie it's suppose to be a comedy, it's more a character study of the type I don't think could be made by Hollywood today. George Burns has the charisma in this though. I really don't get the point, getting old sucks, rob a bank to feel alive? There really is no moral, except the people who are surprised that some old guys are really robbing the place. Going is Style is elgaic, and Burns the lone survivor isn't moping around at the end, he's happy being in prison, resigned to his fate.