We went to see The Adjustment Bureau last night. I found it to be an entertaining movie experience, but the film has a number of structural and narrative problems - so much so that I would call the movie "not good." At best I think it is a 2.5 out of 5.
I feel like this is a movie that suffered from a few too many script rewrites - is this a story about a politician or is this a love story? I believe it is the latter, but they needed to dump a lot more of the details regarding the former. The first 5 minutes of the film alone were completely unnecessary. The Daily Show appearances fell absolutely flat. Jon Stewart is actually funnier and less stiff than the clips shown in the film.
Ultimately, I find the antagonists' actions (as a group mostly) were a bit inexplicable:
if you want to separate two people who you don't want to be together, then shouldn't there be a plan for them both to find other mates? The politician in particular would need a spouse in order to be President and this would aid him not looking so young and immature.
Yeah. I saw The Adjustment Bureau last weekend and was quite disappointed. Usually, I'd eat stuff like this up with a spoon. But the story wasn't thought out through the end, and the denouement, frankly, was laughable. It's too bad because it's got some nifty visual moments (the bit with the doors was clever) and Damon and Blunt have really good chemistry together. Well, maybe they'll act together some other time.
Saw
Rango
last night and dug it. It is REALLY fun spotting all the film references scattered throughout. There were moments where DH and I were the only ones laughing, but I will say the kids we went with loved it, too and it's not like they were aware of "Oh that's a hilarious send-up of Chinatown" or whatever. It is visually wonderful--the animals are all ugly/beautiful and every texture is rich and scrumptious.
DH took Dylan to the Rango screening a couple of weeks ago and they both really enjoyed it. (Granted, Dylan is at that age where every movie he sees is his favorite movie ever until the next one, but he did stay relatively engaged the whole time they were in the theatre.)
We had our team lunch at work today, and a coworker had just seen The American, just about everyone at the table except for me hadn't. Then she says, "It's so stupid in the end when
he just dies."
Boss lady's eyes bugged out, and I said, "Girl, you need to spoiler font that shit."
And everyone thought
I
was the crazy person.
And I was amazed to see io9 give it a really good review, comparing it to Jennifer's Body in terms of it being a horror movie for women.
Huh, really? I may have to go see it, then. Because I LOVE Jennifer's Body.
Huh, really? I may have to go see it, then. Because I LOVE Jennifer's Body.
Right? I thought, eh, Catherine Hardwicke,
Twilight,
it's going to be awful, but I usually agree with Annalee Newitz's reviews (she does the SPN recaps on io9), so now I'm curious. And I adore
Jennifer's Body,
too.
but I usually agree with Annalee Newitz's reviews (she does the SPN recaps on io9), so now I'm curious
Speaking of which, I saw Annalee on the street yesterday. And she nodded at me (we know each other a little) and I was all confused because I recognized her but couldn't place her since I hadn't seen her in about year. I think I got away with the chin-raise of acknowledgment.
Apparently Josh Hutcherson is also up for Peeta. I don't think him or Pettyfer are physically right for the role. But I can't think of anyone that young that's as beefy as Peeta should be. They're all youth and scrawn.
He looks much too young.
Sydney Penney is the way I pictured Katniss, albeit when she was a kid in
Pale Rider.
I still can't think of anyone who works as Peeta for me.
