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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. [...]
Salt
A better than average action-thriller. The end The movie did a good job with things like exposition and dialogue (not saying what’s unnecessary), yet completely lost it at the very end. In the helicopter with a handcuffed Angelina Jolie, she and the black agent suddenly went into great detail discussing her status and the shocking [...]
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
What a refreshing movie! And this is a great example as to why I don’t watch previews in the theater and TV commercials for upcoming movies…much of the thrill of seeing this novel perspective would have been dampened. Just a few flawz caught my attention while watching it, yet afterwards realized a couple more that [...]
The Expendables
For some reason, days before this movie premiered I fell into the trap of thinking it was a sure-thing. It turned out to have a few okay action scenes, but was overall expendable. Structure / Plot I had a let-down feeling during the opening sequence because the action was limited, it was all guns and [...]
The Other Guys
An okay comedy while watching it, Will Ferell made it somewhat memorable. Premise / Character I liked Mark Wahlberg, yet his character leaned closer to the tough-cop side than to the ‘other guys’ and that muddled the contrast between the two groups. Wahlberg himself was muddled and not as distinct as Ferell’s character; at times [...]
Dinner With Schmucks
This was a lesson on how a good ending can save a mediocre movie. Steve Carell getting into Zach Galifianakis’ brain and the two finger-shooting each other? Classic! Structure / Plot I liked the setup, everything was clear and simple for such a comedy, and Paul Rudd was given a clear objective with stakes: get [...]