Bernie A very good dark comedy starring Jack Black about an assistant funeral director who gets involved with a wealthy widow whom he kills. This film is based on a true story. The wife and I really enjoyed it.
Gone Girl. I didn't think it would live up to the hype, but it really did.Great if you like thrillers/mystery films.
Thanks I need to get back to it then. I stopped after 15-20 mins the first time I tried to get through it.
let me save you from watching two disasters. We watched three movies on our short vacation earlier this week, the first two which were aweful: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - I had seen the first one and found it marginally humorous. Like most sequels, this is not as good, meaning it's bad. I like low-brow humor and Will Ferrell has had some great movies but his characters are now nearly all the same and his schtick is growing old. Halfway through the movie I had resorted to playing Trivia Crack on my phone while occasionally looking up to watch bits of the movie. Horrible!! There were a couple of highlights though, and that's Steve Carell and Kristin Wiig, and their relationship. THAT was original and funny! Tammy - Melissa McCarthy was great in Bridesmaid. She then took that same character to several other film sets and I'm sorry to say that the novelty has worn off. Identity Thief, The Heat, and now Tammy, this same character has grown old and worn. I had hopes for Tammy since it was written by Melissa and her husband, Ben Falcone, but this was aweful! The only bright spot was a decent performance by Susan Sarandon. The third movie was ok. We watched The Giver. The story itself was boring and predictable, but the cinematography was pretty good and Jeff Bridges was fantastic. Apparently the movie strays quite a bit from the book (according to the kid sitting next to me who made a point of telling us every time the movie strayed). If you like the futuristic "big brother" type movie, or if you like Jeff Bridges, it's worth watching.
My wife and I recently watched The Interview. Surprisingly it was better than I expected. My wife thought so too. Before that it was The Maze Runner. I'd give it 2.5, maybe 3 stars, which is just shy of what I was expecting. My wife said they kept pretty close to the book. She also said that the second book in the series, The Scorch Trials was her favorite of the three books, so hopefully that will be a good movie too.
Since we didn't have the kids today the wife and I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy. Pretty enjoyable film but quite an emotional roller coaster. One minute I'm pumped because of the action and the next I'm fighting tears, then back to being excited and.... fighting tears again.
I went with my son to see the movie, "Unbroken." Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the book, enjoying a movie made from the book is always a dicey proposition. Understandably, a considerable amount of content from the book is going to be left out of the screenplay in order to fit within the time constraints of a 2.5 hour viewing time. That said, I found moments of the film to be quite good; other sections too long and often melodramatic. Regrettably, the last third of the book (the real tale of redemption) is presented only in a half dozen screenshots with text and actual photos. Not a great film, but better than many out there currently. The dramatic opening sequence aboard a B24 on a bomb run over a Japanese-held island is alone well-worth the price of admission. Movie poster/Novel cover….
Took my girls to see the The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies yesterday. It was okay...I'd expected a bit more, especially this far into a movie series. It wasn't bad and I can't say I didn't enjoy it, but having read the series several times since I was a kid it was about what I expected.
We watched that about 2 weeks ago. I thought it was a fun family movie with good humor and some great action, but don't recall any emotional parts. Is this the movie with the tree character ("I am Groot")?
I felt the same way. I have to say that it is probably the weakest of the entire series of Tolkien films. Because I'm such a fan of the material, I cant say it was bad- just as you said, I expected more from the final installment.
The Imitation Game, a few days after The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. Both great movies in their own right; if anything, Five Armies suffered in my view from the fact that we watched it in ultra-HD 3D, so that some of the scenes more heavily reliant on CGI stood out in their artificial tone.
Battle Royale. The Hunger Games appears to be copied from this Japanese movie, albeit aimed at a younger audience. It has been denied that The Hunger Games is a copy, but to me the similarities appear to be too great to indicate otherwise. Battle Royale is darker in tone and is rated R-15 (15 years of age or older). IMHO, it is by far the better of the two movies.
