Friday, July 20, 2012

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: I don't know how to rank this movie with other chick flicks, I can't quite decide if it was better than The Proposal or at the same caliper. It's a ridicules story of course, I'm not sure you can really have a chick flick with out the story being somewhat far fetched.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Waking Ned Divine: This movie was recommended to me but I didn't know quite what to expect, except that there was a part with a phone booth going over a cliff (which there is). I didn't not like it but I think it would take a few more times to really appreciate it. It's a foreign film and that changes up the pace and usual suspects of American movies. Warning, there is some old man nudity.

Invincible: This is another one of those inspirational sports movies, but I generally seem to enjoy those. I was thinking about the irony of enjoying movies about football and basketball when I never watch the sports themselves. It was a good movie  though.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

The Moon Spinners: I had watched this movie several years ago and wasn't too impressed with it. I saw it at the library and got it for some reason. I think the first time I got the movie, the best thing about it was the handsome leading man. He wasn't so handsome this time around. The back of the case compared the movie to Hitchcock, no, not even close. It was okay at best, not terribly suspenseful (though it may have been more so the first time I saw it) I really was annoyed by the leading girl who was the poster child for pathetic and useless female leads. Also the leading man was supposed to have been shot in the shoulder but his arm seems to be fine in the many fights he's in, etc. Also why did none of the people fighting him punch him in the arm where they'd get the upper hand? Perhaps these things weren't taken into account in 60s/70s violence?

Monday, July 9, 2012

The Proposal: There seems to be a sort of morbid curiosity about movies that you know will be stupid. I knew this would be a dumb chick flick and yet I watched it any way. A warning to those like me that didn't read the reasons for the pg-13 rating, there is significant nudity or partial nudity, far more of actors and actress then I ever wished to see. It was a dumb chick flick and is highly implausible.

What Did You Do in the War Daddy?: This movie was utterly ridiculous.  An American company captures an Italian company in WWII, the Italians are willing, if they can have a festival first... it sort of spirals out of control from there.