Tag: three sentence movies

Hilarious movie full of smart dialogue with actors that are always fun to see: Emma Stone, Amanda Byrns, Patricia Clarkson, Stanly Tucci. I’m feeling conflicted about the ultimate message, but enjoyed myself so much during viewing I don’t really care. And the fact that the ending sends up three classic 80s films can only mean I am no longer young.*

*The 24 year old Educational Aid at my work has never seen Say Anything. She has never heard of Lloyd Dobler. I get that she doesn’t have to get every aspect of my youth, but come on! Lloyd Dobler!

A little slow at the end, but mostly fun. It might even be more fun to compare and contrast Seattle then and Seattle now for people who know the city. I didn’t know that Beau Bridges was such a good actor!

Proof that Gwenneth Paltrow deserved her best actress award, she plays her character with a good sprinkling of unsteadiness. Hope Davis also rocks her role as controlling older sister and Jake Gyllenhall is always fun to watch. You don’t have to like math to like this movie, indeed, if you tune in just for the math you might be disappointed.

I spent the first disk of this miniseries not getting the whole Mr. Darcy (he’s kind of a snotty jerk) thing. This made the “getting” the Mr. Darcy thing in disk two that much more dramatic and fun. This was an incredibly delightful movie to watch the actors act and Mr. Collins (so repulsive!) and Mary Bennett (so sour!) were my favorite minor characters.

I’m not the biggest fan of the movies as they cannot possibly include all that the books do, but I found this quite a good adaptation. This goes to prove what I’ve been saying: books five, six and seven all deserve to be split in two because too much happens to be contained in one two-hour movie. However, at Harry Potter Party VII, mostly the talk was of how well it was done.

I watched this in preparation for the Cohen Brothers’ remake and I have to say I enjoyed it. It was a bit slow, in that pre-Mtv movie way, but was amusing. Kim Darby was right on the age of incredibly annoying and incredibly funny and it was fun to see Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall and a very young Dennis Hopper.

I confess that I confused this with Everything is Illuminated and so was confused for the first twenty minutes until I just let it go. Overall, I found this con man caper a little slow, but there are beautifully shot scenes as well as fun quirky characters. Rachel Weisz’s clothing is fun to look at, and Mark Ruffalo is always easy on the eyes.

In a group setting, the job of the person who has seen the movie before is to sit quietly, with a Cheshire Cat grin on his or her face, while everyone else experiences the movie. The job of said person is not to give a spoiler every two scenes. I probably would have enjoyed this movie much more if the person in the room who had seen the movie knew what his job was.

A well-crafted, tense “scary movie,” it had it all: creepy things happening; sympathetic main character; awful, unsympathetic other character. I enjoy scary movies that rely on very few special effects to tell their story. It also kept me from sleeping very well that night.

Funny, and in a thinking way. Unlike most Ricky Gervais sad sack characters, Mark Bellison was incredibly fun to watch and the large amount of cameos in this movie also made for great entertainment. Jennifer Garner was great, though I spend a lot of time wondering if she had cheekbone implants and deciding her lips must be pumped full of collagen, no?*

*She seems like such a nice person I don’t mind so much, but it is distracting.