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The Road (2009)
Apocalypse with no depth
I like slow developing movies that builds towards something meaningful.This movie starts and ends in the same place. There is no depth to this movie only melodramatic moments that attempts to give meaning to this movie's purpose. The constant presence of suicidal denouement gets tiring and less dramatic.
This movies moves at a snails pace moving away from meaning or character development. Clementine, from the walking dead game, had much more character building than the child in this movie. And Lee is a much more sympathizing character than the father in this movie. The endless, supposedly touching moments, involving the father and son embraces bordered on nausea.
Again, this movie goes nowhere like a toy train running through an elaborate train setup only to return where it started.
I never thought an apocalypse could be so boring.
The Ones Below (2015)
A good Friday night flick for couples
This film can swing either way under both gender viewing. Men might not be able to relate to the vibe this movie tries to put out. Women will more likely get the feeling the producer tried to create.
The acting isn't Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duval worthy but it holds your attention to transport you to the meatier substance: namely the engaging mystery of incredulous coincidences. Unfortunately these coincidences has little to do with the actual plot and or ending. There are also other non plot related elements thrown in for atmosphere.
Speaking of plot, there's a huge plot hole which comes at the end that the writers may have forgotten about. Let's just say it wouldn't cause Colombo a nights sleep figuring it out.
Overall this is a good mystery drama that both genders can enjoy together particularly at home curled up on the sofa.
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
How Many Cringe Worthy Moments Can You Count
If you like feeling sad you should read your local obituaries. If you like feeling euphoric you should take your favorite drug. If you like cringing you should watch this movie. Young and old alike will not miss the cringe effect this movie intentionally induces on multiple occasions and on multiple levels. One such moment is the hot, successful guy attempting to lock lips with an elderly woman. Another is the overt sexual innuendo of the 20 something hott guy pumping and pumping the air-ball-chair of an elderly woman whose scheme have her riding the ball up and down panting to the young man's in and out thrusts of air.
The movie felt like it had a rear broken axle that had the rear wheels wobbling its credibility and credulity to point of almost falling off but never quite does as if it had been the main front wheels holding the plot. Sure, thirteen year old granddaughters are very agreeable, seldom nauseous at the idea of grandma and the hott 20 year old guy dating. The same age bracket who sees anyone over 40 as biblical eyewitnesses. The thirteen year old's reaction after facebooking grandma's friend object of affection was hard to be believed but it wasn't the primary substance of the story. And the hott guy so easily giving up on a relationship with a woman he appears to care so deeply about which only problem is an easily explainable lie is hardly credible. But again, credibility isn't the front axle that makes this car go.
What sort of saves this film is Doris's flirtation with senility, sanity and the effects of her mother's death on her pschye which almost explains her romantic delusional state.
The old will not believe this story for a minute. The young will say no, no, no, ewwww which puts my reaction somewhere in between classified as cringing.