FLIX!
Okay, fellas, it's alright. A chick-flick once in a while is okay. A Joyful Noise turned out to be fun, didn't it? And Pitch Perfect? Admit it, you loved the cup/song thing. Well along comes The Other Woman.
It stars Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton (who is truly funny and the best thing about the movie), and newcomer Leslie Mann. Newcomer Leslie Mann is here for her exquisite body, but I saw more than hints of talent popping out.
The premise is this: a wife discovers her husband (Zac Efron) is cheating, and when she confronts the mistress discovers that she's not really a mistress because he said he was single. And in a weird twisted way, they become friends. And as they together spy on the guy, they discover that he is actually with another girl too. He has told her he is in the midst of a divorce. The new girl is also somehow brought into the "angry-women-fold", and they begin plotting on how to get even. And the things these women came up with were mind boggling. I hate infidelity. I would never cheat anyway, but after seeing this with my wife.... I would never cheat. Ever. Not even let it cross my mind, honey......
This movie is laugh out loud funny. It lost a little umph for us because we saw it at 11:30 in the morning with four other people. So there wasn't exactly uproarious laughter. But it was funny. I laughed out loud even when I was the only one. Hey, funny is funny.
I liked this flick a lot. The final scenes are well worth the price of admission. I don't like these hound-dogs that make my gender look awful, and I was cheering when the pay-backs were happening. And those scenes are hysterical by the way. You go girls!
This is the movie that toppled "Captain America" at the Box Office last week, so there's that guys!
Check this out.
Grade: Strong B+
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Draft Day
FLIX!
This film is exactly what the title says it is. It occurs on Draft Day. The NFL Draft Day to be exact. It starts in the morning as Kevin Costner (the supposed General Manager of the Cleveland Browns) is off to work. This is an important day for GMs as one might suspect. Along the course of this day we learn that this GMs dad had been the former coach, and that his son had fired him. An Accounting executive who watches the whole salary cap thing (Jennifer Garner) has been sleeping with the boss and the day before Draft Day is the day she decides to let him know she's pregnant. On top of all this, the Kevin Costner GMs father, who he recently fired, has died, and his mother decides today is the day there is an ash spreading ceremony.
Costner wants to make a great Ohio State Defensive linebacker pick that will truly help the team win, but the owner interferes and wants him to take the rock star of the day Quarterback. Costner agrees to save his job. But as the day progresses, many things happen, and the tension builds. The final scene of trading and finagling is worth the price of admission. That scene is a thing of beauty.
I can't say any more about the film's story-line. But I must say right up front, I am not a Kevin Costner fan. Unless he's in a Western. I think he is the greatest Western star of our generation. I like him even more than Eastwood. So there's that. I loved seeing Jennifer Garner back in the biz. She and her husband have started a family and she took some totally understandable time off, but now she's poking back into the biz and that's great. All at your pace, Jennifer. Even a little is better than none at all. Ellen Burstyn as the mother was wonderful and even the one-day shoot with Rosanna Arquette as the ex-wife was fun.
I liked this film but didn't love it. I loved the whole build up to the Draft Night wheeling and dealing, and that was great, but I don't know.....was there enough meat in the story?
So I am going to recommend you to go see it. I liked it at least that much. But don't rush out to buy it on Blue-Ray. I am glad I saw this movie. But if I see it one or two more times in my life, that's enough.
GRADE: C+
You know what? I've thought about it a long time and I have decided to own this on Blu-Ray. And I am going to make my wife pay for it at Christmastime. This was a wonderful movie. It was a while ago, but I'm upping my grade to a B-.
This film is exactly what the title says it is. It occurs on Draft Day. The NFL Draft Day to be exact. It starts in the morning as Kevin Costner (the supposed General Manager of the Cleveland Browns) is off to work. This is an important day for GMs as one might suspect. Along the course of this day we learn that this GMs dad had been the former coach, and that his son had fired him. An Accounting executive who watches the whole salary cap thing (Jennifer Garner) has been sleeping with the boss and the day before Draft Day is the day she decides to let him know she's pregnant. On top of all this, the Kevin Costner GMs father, who he recently fired, has died, and his mother decides today is the day there is an ash spreading ceremony.
Costner wants to make a great Ohio State Defensive linebacker pick that will truly help the team win, but the owner interferes and wants him to take the rock star of the day Quarterback. Costner agrees to save his job. But as the day progresses, many things happen, and the tension builds. The final scene of trading and finagling is worth the price of admission. That scene is a thing of beauty.
I can't say any more about the film's story-line. But I must say right up front, I am not a Kevin Costner fan. Unless he's in a Western. I think he is the greatest Western star of our generation. I like him even more than Eastwood. So there's that. I loved seeing Jennifer Garner back in the biz. She and her husband have started a family and she took some totally understandable time off, but now she's poking back into the biz and that's great. All at your pace, Jennifer. Even a little is better than none at all. Ellen Burstyn as the mother was wonderful and even the one-day shoot with Rosanna Arquette as the ex-wife was fun.
I liked this film but didn't love it. I loved the whole build up to the Draft Night wheeling and dealing, and that was great, but I don't know.....was there enough meat in the story?
So I am going to recommend you to go see it. I liked it at least that much. But don't rush out to buy it on Blue-Ray. I am glad I saw this movie. But if I see it one or two more times in my life, that's enough.
GRADE: C+
You know what? I've thought about it a long time and I have decided to own this on Blu-Ray. And I am going to make my wife pay for it at Christmastime. This was a wonderful movie. It was a while ago, but I'm upping my grade to a B-.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
TV Is The New Place To Find Art.
There was a time in the moving picture art world when movies reigned supreme. There were motion pictures being cranked out like "The Godfather", "Citizen Kane", "To Kill A Mockingbird", and on and on. All masterful works of art. And then cable TV happened. And somehow the archaic rules about TV that kept it limited to favorite martians, talking horses, and how funny WWII prisoner of war camps were, seemed to begin to be stretched. And over the years progressively, albeit sometimes too slowly, things have been changing. TV has become the new black, to coin an incidental phrase.
The Networks are still hopelessly caught in the deer-in-the-headlights-not-getting-it -full-of-crap tie downs that keep them limited by sensibilities of a by-gone era. Good. Keep thinking that losers. Because nobody cares anymore. The Networks are so yesterday's papers, that I can't imagine why anyone goes there. Okay I liked "The Blacklist" but the idiots at the network only bought 10 episodes. When it was a hit, they hurriedly bought 10 more, but hey, it's been a while and my patience grows thin. It wasn't THAT great, after all. Your colon looks fine NBC, pull your head out and see some sunlight.
Okay, Modern Family is brilliant, but after the first two seasons what the?.....
But let's look at what else has been going on. Oh, let's see.....can you say 'everywhere else on the dial' brilliant?
Let's start with the Premium channels. HBO: There are some I didn't like (Okay, they were The Sopranos, (the most over-blown piece of shit ever), Deadwood, and Entourage. ) But I loved The Wire, Homeland, True Detective, The Newsroom, and The Extras.)
On SHOWTIME: There was one of the greatest shows ever: Weeds. Then followed Dexter, and one of my personal Favorites: Californication. Hey, Networks, starting to feel it yet? No, you dummies are probably still scratching your heads wondering why you're tanking. So, let me continue.....
AMC: The biggest show on cable: The Walking Dead. Zombies apparently rule over CSI crapola. Mad Men. The darling of reviewers everywhere, but is in reality only slightly above average.
And there's Justified. Great show, and not just because of the great Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
I'll add more as it occurs to me.
The Networks are still hopelessly caught in the deer-in-the-headlights-not-getting-it -full-of-crap tie downs that keep them limited by sensibilities of a by-gone era. Good. Keep thinking that losers. Because nobody cares anymore. The Networks are so yesterday's papers, that I can't imagine why anyone goes there. Okay I liked "The Blacklist" but the idiots at the network only bought 10 episodes. When it was a hit, they hurriedly bought 10 more, but hey, it's been a while and my patience grows thin. It wasn't THAT great, after all. Your colon looks fine NBC, pull your head out and see some sunlight.
Okay, Modern Family is brilliant, but after the first two seasons what the?.....
But let's look at what else has been going on. Oh, let's see.....can you say 'everywhere else on the dial' brilliant?
Let's start with the Premium channels. HBO: There are some I didn't like (Okay, they were The Sopranos, (the most over-blown piece of shit ever), Deadwood, and Entourage. ) But I loved The Wire, Homeland, True Detective, The Newsroom, and The Extras.)
On SHOWTIME: There was one of the greatest shows ever: Weeds. Then followed Dexter, and one of my personal Favorites: Californication. Hey, Networks, starting to feel it yet? No, you dummies are probably still scratching your heads wondering why you're tanking. So, let me continue.....
AMC: The biggest show on cable: The Walking Dead. Zombies apparently rule over CSI crapola. Mad Men. The darling of reviewers everywhere, but is in reality only slightly above average.
And there's Justified. Great show, and not just because of the great Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
I'll add more as it occurs to me.
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