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Horrible Bosses (2011)
I think I've seen about 300 movies like this.
I didn't absolutely hate this movie. For the most part the characters will well played and the heros likable.
The problem for me is that the type of humor that is used in Horrible Bosses has had its day. What attempts to be edgy and shocking is hackneyed and all used up. There's nothing new anymore about bodily function humor . At one point it would make you squirm in your seat because it was uncomfortable, broke social standards and was funny because of it. The only squirming I was doing in this movie was being embarrassed for the fine cast that had to act their way through this tiresome affair.
L'arbre de Noël (1969)
If you like watching children die you'll love this
As a child for three years in a row my parents dropped me at the local grind house to see this while they went Christmas shopping. I'd need to see it again to give an adults opinion of this movie and I haven't, so it being a Christmas movie who parents subjected their children to, I will give my child's opinion on this...
Hey mom and dad...this movie really stinks!!! Why do you keep leaving me alone in a dark theatre to to watch an exceedingly painful movie that forces me to face my own mortality when I'm only 8 years old? Come on folks...I'm a child I don't need this now. I have a life time coming up to worry about my own demise. So...is watching a kid my own age be found dead under a Christmas tree Christmas morning someone supposed to make me full of The ol' X-mas cheer? Why are you doing this to me!??? Next year could you simply lock me into a closet while you go Christmas shopping instead? I'll be fine...I'll play with the shoes.
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Very entertaining with witty clever dialogue through out
I wasn't expecting to much from this movie but was pleasantly surprised. Though the plot is a quite far fetched I couldn't help but fall in love with this fairy tale. So often with modern Hollywood comedies the laughs are from base and uninteresting humour. Not so here. The jokes are well thought out and do not challenge ones intelligence. I'm not a prude and the humour here is not prudish. Sometimes very subtle....as when Grant admires Loy's breasts at their meeting in an upscale restaurant. A prime example of a 1940s screen writer slipping one past the Hollywood censors. This movie has no dead spots...no lulls and entertains from beginning to end.
Deja Vu (2006)
Rock video editing and impossibly improbable
This movie is a two hour music video. Jerky so called documentary style shooting and an edit every 8 frames or so. Even an epileptic experiencing a seizure could hold a camera steadier then what's presented here. I'm not sure if it's the ego of the D.O.P. the editor or the director that for so long this style of film making has been popular. Get over it folks....move on...this is a completely hackneyed look. So much of the viewers attention is brought to what's going on behind the camera instead of what's going on in front of it. To compliment this style of shooting you will find included a music score that never stops. I understand why though....this movie is so poorly put together that without it dictating how we should be feeling at any given moment we'd be completely emotionally nonplussed.
I almost walked out on this film but I was hoping that with so many apparent holes in the plot line that it would somehow miraculously pull itself together with a surprise ending that would at least bring some intelligence to the film. It doesn't.
The movie is dedicated to the spirit of the people in New Orleans. I think they could have done without this vote of confidence.
I give it a two because I did for a few moments find myself enjoying the movie but ultimately the premise of the movie is so retarded that it was impossible to suspend my disbelief.
The Perfect Storm (2000)
had all the clichés that make a film bad
Was I supposed to feel sorry for these guys? They got greedy. They had a whole bunch of fish but still they wanted more. The fisherman's life is a hard life...yeah so whatever. The buggers had enough fish they should have gone home a lot sooner. Beyond that everything that could possibly done to pull on the old heart strings was done in this movie and the result was a big stinking pile of trite crap. The music dictates every emotion. Was the director unable to get his point across with hammering it home endlessly with an overdone soundtrack? The last 40 minutes or so (it felt like a bloody eternity) was quick cuts, no more then a few seconds each of water and waves and boats and people and things. What the hell was going on here? Yeah yeah...it was a turbulent sea. We could have figured that out in a lot less time then 40 minutes. I can't go without mentioning the scene with George Cloney going down with the ship...yeah right!!!!!! I would have been a lot happier to have seen the director, sound editor and screen writer at the bottom of the deep blue sea. Thirty pounds or so of wasted hackneyed acetate. Highly not recommended.