Starting the thread for this year!
1) Home – B+
There were some laughs in this one and it did keep me interested. But I wasn’t a fan of the Rihanna soundtrack, which I felt didn’t fit with the movie and Oh seemed like Sheldon in animated form. I have great respect for Parsons and his acting chops. I have never questioned the authenticity of his Sheldon Cooper, but I want to see him in something completely different and dramatic.
2) Next – C-
This is an interesting plot, but Nicolas Cage’s acting kills this movie. First off, how does he bed Jessica Biel in one day? He just looks bored, not tortured or rebellious like the role calls for. Julianne Moore and the rest of the cast isn’t winning any Oscars either, but Cage sticks out like a sore thumb.
3) A Walk Among The Tombstones – A-
I can’t put my finger on why I liked this movie. It is well shot and outside of the conventions of the clean as a whistle family and law enforcement officer going haggard to find the missing child, very similar to Hugh Jackman’s Prisoners. Liam Neeson is perfect as the tortured ex-cop and the murderers are truly psychotic. My only question for those who have seen this: do the murderers need a motivation as to why they were going after loved ones of drug dealers or can they just be psychotics?
4) Big Game – D+
How can a movie take Samuel L. Jackson and make him one of the wussiest President’s ever put to screen? You could laugh at this movie on the same level as Snakes On A Plane as it matches it improbably stupid scenes, but between Jackson spending most of the movie acting like a wimp and doing silly things, like claiming the Finnish kid’s ATV as “property of the United States of America,” it’s just painful to watch. Watch Victor Garber. He looks like he’s thinking: “I was in Titanic, Alias and Argo and now I’m doing this…”
1) Home – B+
There were some laughs in this one and it did keep me interested. But I wasn’t a fan of the Rihanna soundtrack, which I felt didn’t fit with the movie and Oh seemed like Sheldon in animated form. I have great respect for Parsons and his acting chops. I have never questioned the authenticity of his Sheldon Cooper, but I want to see him in something completely different and dramatic.
2) Next – C-
This is an interesting plot, but Nicolas Cage’s acting kills this movie. First off, how does he bed Jessica Biel in one day? He just looks bored, not tortured or rebellious like the role calls for. Julianne Moore and the rest of the cast isn’t winning any Oscars either, but Cage sticks out like a sore thumb.
3) A Walk Among The Tombstones – A-
I can’t put my finger on why I liked this movie. It is well shot and outside of the conventions of the clean as a whistle family and law enforcement officer going haggard to find the missing child, very similar to Hugh Jackman’s Prisoners. Liam Neeson is perfect as the tortured ex-cop and the murderers are truly psychotic. My only question for those who have seen this: do the murderers need a motivation as to why they were going after loved ones of drug dealers or can they just be psychotics?
4) Big Game – D+
How can a movie take Samuel L. Jackson and make him one of the wussiest President’s ever put to screen? You could laugh at this movie on the same level as Snakes On A Plane as it matches it improbably stupid scenes, but between Jackson spending most of the movie acting like a wimp and doing silly things, like claiming the Finnish kid’s ATV as “property of the United States of America,” it’s just painful to watch. Watch Victor Garber. He looks like he’s thinking: “I was in Titanic, Alias and Argo and now I’m doing this…”
The scenes where Joy realizes she and Sadness are two sides of the same coin is probably the best element of the movie.
