I'm tired and not stating myself clearly. Right now my choice is one movie, and I'm debating on whether to watch it or not. Wish I had a second choice right now. I watched Puncture over the weekend because it had a shirtless Chris Evans in it. I'm grateful for the edification on the bullshit of Big Business (yet again) and Chris was great (and tragic, and not timely for dealing with my own brothers drug problems), but not terribly well directed or edited. But the trailer had made it seem like John Grishamly goodness (underdog lawyers! Evil corporations! Suspense and threats of violence! And then sucky reality intervened in all it's jaded bitter glory). I'm glad I watched it, but it wasn't a Good Movie.
Yeah, I got from the trailer and Ryan's Hammer of Brain Spattering that there might be some harh violence. I'm okay with that in theory.
then go for it! watch it.
the music in the film was running through my head for weeks.
I loved Drive. It's one of the most stylish movies I saw in theater the last year, and Ryan Gosling is fantastic in it. Yes, there are moments of shocking violence, although I wouldn't say they are that much worse than violence in your usual action thriller. It's in the way the violence is presented, I think, in brief but very effective bursts. It's pointed.
The director was... Dutch, I think? The movie felt very non-American to me.
Most of my friends who saw Drive say it was the best film they saw last year. I totally failed to see it in the theater but, thank you for reminding me! I just added to our netflix queue.
I just added to our netflix queue.
Short wait! Booo. I'm watching
Moneyball
tonight, and that was supposed to be next.
I'm looking forward to hearing your views on Moneyball. I know I'm so totally biased, that I'm curious about the reactions from people who have more distance from the subject.
I bought Puncture at an antique mall on my lunch break today. Haven't watched it yet, but I figure shirtless Chris Evans is worth the 5.50 I paid for it regardless of story quality.
I know jacksquat about baseball, but I really liked Moneyball. I haven't liked anything Brad Pitt has done this much in years. A quietly thrilling movie. And the ending kind of choked me up.
Matt, don't get me wrong, it was a good story. And Evans was delicious in his shirtless suspenders with his tats. But never have I watched a movie and thought "parking the car is taking too long" or "there's no energy in this scene" or "this is a wierd noninformative intro" or "that transition was weird". Really, the editor should've been fired. And I think a lot of the movie was driven on the promise of Grisham conspiracy, which was a great mood-setter, but ultimately false. Lots of the dashing about wasn't so much plot urgency as it was Mike Weiss' being a fucktard and late for shit because he was high.
And I keep telling myself that Downey Jr. got his shit together and he's a decade older than my brother, but I am just terribly sad and it f***ing wrecks me and I'm irrational and making no sense but Puncture hurts in a terrible way.
