I just wanted to throw out my gut reaction to this movie tonight.
Fucking Terrible.
A weak political thriller with no thrills. Just because George Clooney directed it doesnt make it good.
Synopsis.
A press secretary for Clooney gets dicked over by the other campaign manager, and then he blackmails Clooney to get that guy fired.
I kid you not thats the movie, and its ending left you sitting there wondering why the hell you wasted 10 dollars and nothing happened.
There was some nice cinematography and the acting was fine. Paul Giomatti was good, and Philip S. Hoffman was decent. Ryan Gosling has more charm in the movie Drive than he does here, which was a much better movie btw. Clooney was fine, he acted like a politician. Smiled a lot, and then looked stern in some parts. All of acting overshadowed by the poor plot, lack of intrigue and crappy ending.
Rotten tomatoes gives it an 83% saying "While not exactly exposing revelatory truths, The Ides of March is supremely well-acted drama that moves at a calm, confident clip."
I read a review of this movie by the denver post and i really liked what he had to say. There are 2 other movies out there are show the down and dirty of different worlds, moneyball for baseball and the social network for computer stuff, and this movie here lacked what those movies had. Maybe cause those are movies about the underdog and making it from nothing that appeals to people. Nobody could care less about politions being corrupted, everybody already believes that. Show us something we havent seen.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Scary Movies
I did a bunch of google searches for the top 10 scariest movies of all time. I have collected a bunch of them. The one that I watched tonight was American Psycho. I dont know why its on the list. The movie isnt scary at all, and there arent any "gotcha" scenes for cheap thrills either. The movie plays out more like a drama, lots of Christian Bale having sex with hookers and showering and stuff. This movie came out in 2000, and I went looking around for other movies from that era. Final Destination came out in 2000 and pretty cool, and had some nice death scenes. I dunno what was trying to be done here but it seemed like a very toned down version of the Shining (which was much scarier, as i remember it). Other movies to round out my list are
Audition
Dead Girl
Funny Games
Martyrs
mulholland drive
and
rear window.
More later, oh also I saw Killer Elite with Chev Chellios and that other movie......MoneyBall.
<3 B
Nevery got around to talking about Killer Elite and Moneyball.
after a few weeks you really get know how good a movie is by what you can remember of it.
Clive Owen was pretty good and chev chellios did his thing, like he does in all of his movies. This movie could have been transporter 8 and the plot doesnt really change. Gotta kill some british sas blokes that were in a war with iran? If Chev doesnt go kill them then his partner Robert DeNiro dies. Deniro is like a father to him blah blah, so he does the job, but Clive Owen is former sas and "is on to him" and tries to beat him up. Brits die, Deniro gets saved, clive owen is mad. Ok action flick, rent it if you are bored, will end up in that $4 bin at best buy.
MoneyBall.
Brad Pitt was excellent in this movie. He plays the roll of Billy the manager of the Oakland Athletics, which was pretty much the crappiest team ever. He has a low budget and all his players leave for better paying teams when their contracts end. So billy goes another team and asks for some trades to replace his losses. Jonah that big guy from those comedies is crazy with stats and Billy snipes him from that other team. They devise a way to figure out who is good based on specific stats that nobody else uses. THey make a huge comeback and win like 18 games in a row, but lose the last game of the season. Theres drama with billys x wife and his kid, and it shows a man conflicted and dealing with what lifes given him. I dont like watching baseball, but thankfully with this movie there actually wasnt much watching, it was all the behind the scenes stuff. I enjoyed this movie very much. Go see it if you like baseball, and maybe even if you dont.
Audition
Dead Girl
Funny Games
Martyrs
mulholland drive
and
rear window.
More later, oh also I saw Killer Elite with Chev Chellios and that other movie......MoneyBall.
<3 B
Nevery got around to talking about Killer Elite and Moneyball.
after a few weeks you really get know how good a movie is by what you can remember of it.
Clive Owen was pretty good and chev chellios did his thing, like he does in all of his movies. This movie could have been transporter 8 and the plot doesnt really change. Gotta kill some british sas blokes that were in a war with iran? If Chev doesnt go kill them then his partner Robert DeNiro dies. Deniro is like a father to him blah blah, so he does the job, but Clive Owen is former sas and "is on to him" and tries to beat him up. Brits die, Deniro gets saved, clive owen is mad. Ok action flick, rent it if you are bored, will end up in that $4 bin at best buy.
MoneyBall.
Brad Pitt was excellent in this movie. He plays the roll of Billy the manager of the Oakland Athletics, which was pretty much the crappiest team ever. He has a low budget and all his players leave for better paying teams when their contracts end. So billy goes another team and asks for some trades to replace his losses. Jonah that big guy from those comedies is crazy with stats and Billy snipes him from that other team. They devise a way to figure out who is good based on specific stats that nobody else uses. THey make a huge comeback and win like 18 games in a row, but lose the last game of the season. Theres drama with billys x wife and his kid, and it shows a man conflicted and dealing with what lifes given him. I dont like watching baseball, but thankfully with this movie there actually wasnt much watching, it was all the behind the scenes stuff. I enjoyed this movie very much. Go see it if you like baseball, and maybe even if you dont.
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