Ending
Young Adult
Well executed and Charlize Theron was great, yet the movie still fell in no-man’s land. Character The flick was more drama than comedy so it failed early on when Charlize embarked on the objective to win back her ex-boyfriend from high school who was now happily married and a new father. Who can have empathy [...]
The Muppets
This was mostly a fun flick. A few odd things prevented it from being smoother. Little things – The characters’ awareness of being in a movie was silly. Yes, the movie was intentionally light and fluffy, but there are boundaries to everything. Think about it- they knew they were in a movie…about trying to put [...]
Fair Game
Structure/Plot While it was interesting to learn some of the details behind this true story, it would have been much better trimming many of them, especially since the general story was already known, in order to get to the real story much sooner. The real story was about what happened after Valerie Plame’s name was [...]
The Next Three Days
Good thriller, I liked the constant obstacles and new developments, and there were a couple of times where I wondered how it would end. The end The only sore spot in the movie was Act III. It went on too long and contained unnecessary bits, like the two cops reinvestigating the crime scene and seeing [...]
Super 8
More like, Disappointing 8. I was glad to see a movie pay attention to the all-important aspect of character empathy. That’s sadly lacking in too many flicks. Yet, surprisingly, other important aspects of a good flick were lacking in this one. Objective Act 2 was awful. After the setup of the train wreck, the kids [...]
Invictus
It was good overall and Morgan Freeman was great as Nelson Mandela. Structure/Plot and Character Matt Damon as the captain of the rugby team was largely useless to the story. After the first meeting with Mandela, Damon had only one moment where he took charge of the team or led by example- the grueling training [...]
Leap Year
The state of romantic comedies is so sad…they’re all by the numbers filled with stock characters and must-have scenes and are distinguished merely by a set-up, backdrop or device. Here, it was the Irish tradition of women proposing to men on February 29th of a leap year. Every other element mimics so many previous romcoms. [...]