Rating: C
Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman are dying from cancer. They make a list of things they want to do before they “kick the bucket” and break out of the hospital to start doing them.
Major pet peeve: Movies that are marketed as comedies but are actually more drama with a few funny/touching scenes. This is one of those movies. It wasn’t terrible but I never need to see it again.
Rating: C
Chuck and Buck were friends as kids – friends who may have crossed the line a bit in their relationship. This movie takes place 15 years later when Buck decides that he wants to cross the line again but Chuck wants nothing to do with him. So Buck stalks Chuck.
The Netflix pouch for this movie describes it as “An offbeat film…” Um, yeah. Offbeat is one work to describe it. It’s not funny, just odd. I didn’t hate it but I could have lived my life without ever seeing it. I’d be careful to whom I’d recommend this one. The sexual tension jumps off the screen at you.
Rating: C
This takes place in a world where people's souls live outside their body in the form of an animal. There is a conspiracy going on to remove the soul from children so they remain innocent. A child, Lyra, is destined to fix this.
So I think that was the synopsis. I'm not a huge fan of fantasy because there are usually too many worlds, creatures and plots and this was no different. I got it towards the end. It was well done just not my thing. Although I would watch a sequel if they decide to make it. I suppose I'm undecided. For Daniel Craig fans, he's only in it for a few minutes.
Rating: C
Story of Andy Warhol's muse, Edie Sedgwick.
I mostly liked this movie. I thought the performances were awesome (Sienna Miller, Guy Pierce) but parts of the movie were a little slow for my taste. Plus the Hayden Christensen performance was pretty awful. If you have been interested in seeing it - go ahead. If you've been on the fence - pass.
Rating: C
During the time of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco Goya's muse is named a heretic and sent to prison. When she is released by the French 15 years later, she enlists Goya to help her search for the daughter she gave birth to in prison.
I didn't hate this movie, but I didn't exactly love it. It seems really long and it is very dark. Not like a movie set during the Spanish Inquisition should be light hearted but this was really dark. I thought that Stellan Skarsgard and Javier Bardem did great work but Natalie Portman was a weak link. It was more "interesting" than anything else.
Rating: C
Day in the life type story centered around two best friends that are about to graduate from High School and attend two different universities. They just want to party and get girlfriends.
I remember this getting a lot of hype and so it went on the NF queue. I didn't think it was that great. Some things were hysterical (McLovin) but for the most part - eh. I think this must be a guys movie.
Rating: C
A dying mother recounts her secret love story in a series of hallucinations which confuse her two grown up, yet dysfunctional daughters.
What an odd movie. The parts I liked the best were the flashbacks in which Claire Danes plays the young version of the dying woman. The real-time sequences, focusing on her daughters various issues, were really lame and depressing. They should have made a movie of the hallucinations. With this big-name cast, it should have been a lot better. The hallucinations parts are worth watching.
Rating: C
Based on some serious family dysfunction - Dad is a professor of jewish mysticism who thinks his young daughter is a sort of prophet, Daughter is a champion speller, Brother decides to become hindu and mom likes to steal things from people's homes. Centers around the family basically falling apart.
Interesting movie - a little slow. The little girl was good but Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche were a little odd. Didn't love it, didn't hate it.
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