Tag: three sentence movies

I admit that I got this movie from the library and watched the whole thing (for the third time) just so I could evaluate the acting skills of Chris Hemsworth (a.k.a. Thor) which are on display only for about five minutes.  But it’s a really good film, and it was a happy way to spend the evening.  I can report with confidence that Chris Hemsworth’s five minutes of acting were done quite well and that I may have a sudden and confusing “thing” for him.

I took a chance* that this movie would not have poop in it and brought it over to watch with my mom on Mother’s Day.  Alas, there was a poop scene, but there was enough funny in this movie to overlook it, at least for me.  I’ve never heard an actor with such excellent comic timing while reading a eulogy.

*possible web site to be developed:  movies reviewed for poop content.

Season two is pretty uneven, which was the word on the street before we even started watching this.  Matt even stopped watching for an episode or two before being sucked in again. This DVD will always have a warm spot in my heart for having the episode where Rachel writes a song about her hairband.

I was a bit worried that there were too many characters for the plot, but it all came together nicely.  This was a funny and engrossing film, so much so that I was caught up and actually said, “God DAMN you Joss Whedon” rather loudly at a critical juncture.  And people like me, who always stay to the bitter end of the credits, do appreciate a reward at the end.

Because Julie Taymor directed this, it is quite lovely and I must say the casting of Helen Mirren as Prosper(o/a) was interesting.  However, I did not enjoy this movie version as much as I enjoyed the bare-bones Shakespeare in the Park version I watched last summer.  That aside, it was not a bad way to spend two hours.

It’s four hours long, but not boring.  I get the Kenneth Branagh “thing” now.  It was very cinematic in scope and I liked it.

I liked this last summer in the theater and I liked it when I watched it as part of the Avengers Assembly movie series.  I think Hugo Weaving playing the villain was the best of the Avengers villains and I think that Chris Evans manages to project a vulnerability left over from his scrawny days that suits his character.  However, the people we watched the movie with pointed out some inconsistencies in the ending which I hadn’t considered, which prompted Matt to show us a clip from How it Should Have Ended which was incredibly funny, given that the point had just come up.

This was one of those movies I want to just go and live in for a few days.  Great acting, funny, complex without being confusing, and full of warmth.  I enjoyed it so much I requested the director’s other movies from the library and I highly recommend you watch this one.

Last year, I mostly did not like this film, finding the main actor cheese-o-riffic, though I liked the special effects. Upon re-watching it for our Avengers Assembly, I liked it quite a bit more.  I think it was because I was prepared for Thor’s he-man looks and funny facial/head hair, but somehow the whole movie seemed a bit deeper the second time around.

A “zany comedy” recommended by the library’s blog, this was a bit slow (as befitting a movie made 70 years ago) and I enjoyed Ginger Roger’s slightly dingy main character.  Having only seen her with Fred Astaire, I was intrigued to see her on her own.  I wasn’t happy with the ending, but a movie that is about three generations out of my own expereince isn’t probably going to have the same idea of “happy ending” as I do.