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re: The Cabin in the Woods. TulaneLSU's 2011-12 movie review thread
Posted on 11/16/11 at 7:21 am to TulaneLSU
Posted on 11/16/11 at 7:21 am to TulaneLSU
The Mechanic the best thing about this movie is it's filmed in New Orleans. Watching it, I was more attuned to figuring out which building or where in the city they were set. The movie has way too much blood and violence to recommend. The story is interesting enough and Straham or whatever his name plays the role well, but the movie has no message except killing. Hard to recommend a movie like that. It moves fast and is tightly knit, but the lack of a worthwhile theme makes this a bust. 3/10
Megamind It's been a couple of months since seeing this, but thought it was decent. I'm glad they reduced the role of Brad Pitt. Even though it's animation, it is a romance movie, not a kid's movie. The love Megamind has for Ms. Palin is admirable and I came to feel for the guy. 6/10
Moneyball If you think you're going to see a movie about baseball, think again. The baseball scenes are sparse and not good. This movie is about one thing and one thing only: faith despite the evidence and tradition. 3,000 or so years ago, or maybe never, a man named Abram lived. And God approached this man, telling him that if he were to leave his home, God would bless him with a new land and many descendants, despite his wife's old age and barrenness. At the time, it looked like a ridiculous commitment only a fool would make. There was no evidence that hinted that the decision would pay dividends. But Abram packed his bags and headed out, probably to the consternation and ridicule of all his neighbors who mocked him as a mad man. Faith for Abram, Karl Barth, and possibly Billy Beane was believing in something despite all the evidence, and standing back, and watching all the evidence change.
In that way, this movie is much more about a Copernican Revolution, a Abrahamic Revolution, really, than it is about baseball. Without question, this writer was influenced by Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which has deservedly become reading for college freshmen across the disciplines, so much so that the paradigm shifts it discusses have almost become cliche' in conversation. In the book, Kuhn uses history to show how normal science is governed by faith, even if its followers claim a lack of faith. Faith in a system and a method, faith in a certain ordering of ideas, is how each school of science becomes dominant, and the assumptions of that school become dogmatic, which is not meant to be used in a pejorative sense. But every system of belief has flaws and will face stalemate. Eventually, a revolutionary questions the assumptions of science to create a new form of science. This is the revolution, the paradigm shift.
Moneyball seeks through the superficial relationship between the plenipotentiary general manager of the A's, Brad Pitt, (Billy Beane) and his head scout and head coach to show a revolutionary butting heads with tradition. But the interplay doesn't work because from the get-go, the old guard is cast in a mocking way. We're never given time or reason to support anyone but Pitt and his way of thinking. Thanks to the overly revealing trailer, we know all the smart lines and ending before the beginning. Pitt is the hero and the movie is agitprop to build the hero. In that sense, the movie is one-faced, simple, and doesn't give justice to the other side, which a good drama demands. The scenes from Pitt's past don't add anything to the character or story, though the director tries to force an interpretation down our throats, but to no avail. Even more superfluous and useless is the weak attempt to bring Pitt's family into the movie. Pitt is not well cast here; his strength is shown when he plays the bad guy with the good heart, not the innovator. His relationship to Jonah Hill, whose me'tier is numbers, is clumsy. Hill is the real hero in the story, yet he is cast to the side as a troll. The only thing that really works is the message: that in order to bring real change, you need a faith in something higher than yourself because the ridicule and rejection the prophet faces is too much for one person to carry alone. Too bad Pitt's character is left as a shadow and the audience in the dark about why he believes the new system will work. 4/10
Monte Carlo I felt my soul being destroyed by this cooked u,p sentimental life-is-better with-what-you-have snoozer. It's all a crock. The message makes no sense in the movie's backdrop.
How do these girls pretend to be pleased with what they already have? For instance, Selena, she finds happiness after returning to Europe??? How does a five dollar an hour waitress afford to go back to Europe just weeks after her first trip to Europe? And her clothes? Sorry, but when you're making what she does, you're happy to have a place to sleep at night.
The other girl, the one from The Roommate, who by the way is not attractive at all, she lets go of all her pain by traveling around the world for a few months with some ex rugby player who has chicken legs, so unbelievable. How does she afford that? And how is travel throughout the world consistent with be happy with what you have? Does the producer have any clue how expensive it is to do what she did at the end? She's nothing but a hitched Julie Roberts from Eat Pray Love. She'll get tired of her new found boy, have an epiphany, and even though she's in great debt from her college education that she doesn't use for a job, she'll continue to travel.
And that last blonde, the real skanky one who cheats on her boyfriend by going out on date after date in Europe. Do we really buy that it's only through cheating that we find who we truly love? If I were her boyfriend and found those flowers, I would have kicked her skank arse to the curb. Damn whore. So what if that French guy on the boat hadn't been a jerk? Does that mean she would have fallen in love with him?
This movie is a kid's version of Eat Pray Love and totally contradicting to itself. I could have written a better script in 30 minutes. 2/10
Megamind It's been a couple of months since seeing this, but thought it was decent. I'm glad they reduced the role of Brad Pitt. Even though it's animation, it is a romance movie, not a kid's movie. The love Megamind has for Ms. Palin is admirable and I came to feel for the guy. 6/10
Moneyball If you think you're going to see a movie about baseball, think again. The baseball scenes are sparse and not good. This movie is about one thing and one thing only: faith despite the evidence and tradition. 3,000 or so years ago, or maybe never, a man named Abram lived. And God approached this man, telling him that if he were to leave his home, God would bless him with a new land and many descendants, despite his wife's old age and barrenness. At the time, it looked like a ridiculous commitment only a fool would make. There was no evidence that hinted that the decision would pay dividends. But Abram packed his bags and headed out, probably to the consternation and ridicule of all his neighbors who mocked him as a mad man. Faith for Abram, Karl Barth, and possibly Billy Beane was believing in something despite all the evidence, and standing back, and watching all the evidence change.
In that way, this movie is much more about a Copernican Revolution, a Abrahamic Revolution, really, than it is about baseball. Without question, this writer was influenced by Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which has deservedly become reading for college freshmen across the disciplines, so much so that the paradigm shifts it discusses have almost become cliche' in conversation. In the book, Kuhn uses history to show how normal science is governed by faith, even if its followers claim a lack of faith. Faith in a system and a method, faith in a certain ordering of ideas, is how each school of science becomes dominant, and the assumptions of that school become dogmatic, which is not meant to be used in a pejorative sense. But every system of belief has flaws and will face stalemate. Eventually, a revolutionary questions the assumptions of science to create a new form of science. This is the revolution, the paradigm shift.
Moneyball seeks through the superficial relationship between the plenipotentiary general manager of the A's, Brad Pitt, (Billy Beane) and his head scout and head coach to show a revolutionary butting heads with tradition. But the interplay doesn't work because from the get-go, the old guard is cast in a mocking way. We're never given time or reason to support anyone but Pitt and his way of thinking. Thanks to the overly revealing trailer, we know all the smart lines and ending before the beginning. Pitt is the hero and the movie is agitprop to build the hero. In that sense, the movie is one-faced, simple, and doesn't give justice to the other side, which a good drama demands. The scenes from Pitt's past don't add anything to the character or story, though the director tries to force an interpretation down our throats, but to no avail. Even more superfluous and useless is the weak attempt to bring Pitt's family into the movie. Pitt is not well cast here; his strength is shown when he plays the bad guy with the good heart, not the innovator. His relationship to Jonah Hill, whose me'tier is numbers, is clumsy. Hill is the real hero in the story, yet he is cast to the side as a troll. The only thing that really works is the message: that in order to bring real change, you need a faith in something higher than yourself because the ridicule and rejection the prophet faces is too much for one person to carry alone. Too bad Pitt's character is left as a shadow and the audience in the dark about why he believes the new system will work. 4/10
Monte Carlo I felt my soul being destroyed by this cooked u,p sentimental life-is-better with-what-you-have snoozer. It's all a crock. The message makes no sense in the movie's backdrop.
How do these girls pretend to be pleased with what they already have? For instance, Selena, she finds happiness after returning to Europe??? How does a five dollar an hour waitress afford to go back to Europe just weeks after her first trip to Europe? And her clothes? Sorry, but when you're making what she does, you're happy to have a place to sleep at night.
The other girl, the one from The Roommate, who by the way is not attractive at all, she lets go of all her pain by traveling around the world for a few months with some ex rugby player who has chicken legs, so unbelievable. How does she afford that? And how is travel throughout the world consistent with be happy with what you have? Does the producer have any clue how expensive it is to do what she did at the end? She's nothing but a hitched Julie Roberts from Eat Pray Love. She'll get tired of her new found boy, have an epiphany, and even though she's in great debt from her college education that she doesn't use for a job, she'll continue to travel.
And that last blonde, the real skanky one who cheats on her boyfriend by going out on date after date in Europe. Do we really buy that it's only through cheating that we find who we truly love? If I were her boyfriend and found those flowers, I would have kicked her skank arse to the curb. Damn whore. So what if that French guy on the boat hadn't been a jerk? Does that mean she would have fallen in love with him?
This movie is a kid's version of Eat Pray Love and totally contradicting to itself. I could have written a better script in 30 minutes. 2/10
This post was edited on 11/16/11 at 7:30 am
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Posted on 11/16/11 at 7:21 am to TulaneLSU
Never Say Never Never would I think I'd say that spending $10 on my Never Say Never ticket was the best value for money of anything I bought this year, but here I am to say that. The movie itself is good. It's an interesting documentary on a kid who is trying to stay a kid in this big world. The music is great. The sequence and timing are superb. But what puts this movie over the top are the fans. That's right. By the end of the movie, 75% of the theater, consisting mostly of early and pre-teen girls were on the ground level with their hands up, screaming and touching the screen as if the movie were a concert. It was exhilarating to be in that number! I confess I too ran down to the floor and began dancing and screaming with the masses. What an awesome movie experience. Movie 6/10 Experience 10/10.
No Strings Attached Why does it seem like every movie set today has a flashback to either the late 80s or early 90s? NSA starts with a bad premise and the movie is intent to show how wrong that premise is. The problem is along the way, the movie doesn't completely reject the premise or other vices which make the premise possible. There is a moving scene at the end, as you might expect, but with the impurity scattered throughout the movie, it's hard to feel like the characters have really undergone catharsis and been redeemed. Nonetheless, there are humorous parts, but if you've seen the trailer, you've seen most of the movie. Portman is a good actress, but she's not that attractive. 6/10
One Day Life, which for humans is defined by relationships, has a sort of beautiful symmetry to it. Where we begin, we often end, or "In my beginning is my end," as T.S. Eliot so elegantly stated in "East Coker." And so it is in the strong writing of One Day, a sweeping, sometimes mawkish, story of the birth, regression, transgression, secession, and consummation of a friendship, friendship that is always evolving because its participants are always changing.
Through the relationship of Hathaway's fey character and the Cockaigne born and raised character played by Jim Sturgess, we see two of the most important aspects of humanity: the being of joy and the becoming of someone better. The two play off each other, all their lives long; the two need each other like the yin, bringing to mind that old passage from Proverbs: "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." The journey of both lives is captivating. As one ascends, the other descends. But somehow, like in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, there is a point of intersection where, despite the past and the future, the two are equals. Gone, then, are the nostrums of alcohol, drugs, manipulation and use of others for their company. All that remains is love, the love of best friends, the love of knowledge of the other, for what is romantic love, a lower form of love yes, but what is it but a knowledge of and acceptance of the other? Even despite their foibles. One day, we all hope to return home, to the one, or One, who knows us completely as we are.
As for the particulars, Anne Hathaway is terrible. She is not a good actress, and she should have quit with Princess Diaries. The saving grace of this movie, besides the terrific writing, is Sturgess, his mother, played by Jackie Clarkson's daughter, and his father. Those three actors hit the ball deep in the corner. It may not be a homerun, but considering what's out there, they make it worth leaving home to see. 7/10
No Strings Attached Why does it seem like every movie set today has a flashback to either the late 80s or early 90s? NSA starts with a bad premise and the movie is intent to show how wrong that premise is. The problem is along the way, the movie doesn't completely reject the premise or other vices which make the premise possible. There is a moving scene at the end, as you might expect, but with the impurity scattered throughout the movie, it's hard to feel like the characters have really undergone catharsis and been redeemed. Nonetheless, there are humorous parts, but if you've seen the trailer, you've seen most of the movie. Portman is a good actress, but she's not that attractive. 6/10
One Day Life, which for humans is defined by relationships, has a sort of beautiful symmetry to it. Where we begin, we often end, or "In my beginning is my end," as T.S. Eliot so elegantly stated in "East Coker." And so it is in the strong writing of One Day, a sweeping, sometimes mawkish, story of the birth, regression, transgression, secession, and consummation of a friendship, friendship that is always evolving because its participants are always changing.
Through the relationship of Hathaway's fey character and the Cockaigne born and raised character played by Jim Sturgess, we see two of the most important aspects of humanity: the being of joy and the becoming of someone better. The two play off each other, all their lives long; the two need each other like the yin, bringing to mind that old passage from Proverbs: "As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another." The journey of both lives is captivating. As one ascends, the other descends. But somehow, like in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, there is a point of intersection where, despite the past and the future, the two are equals. Gone, then, are the nostrums of alcohol, drugs, manipulation and use of others for their company. All that remains is love, the love of best friends, the love of knowledge of the other, for what is romantic love, a lower form of love yes, but what is it but a knowledge of and acceptance of the other? Even despite their foibles. One day, we all hope to return home, to the one, or One, who knows us completely as we are.
As for the particulars, Anne Hathaway is terrible. She is not a good actress, and she should have quit with Princess Diaries. The saving grace of this movie, besides the terrific writing, is Sturgess, his mother, played by Jackie Clarkson's daughter, and his father. Those three actors hit the ball deep in the corner. It may not be a homerun, but considering what's out there, they make it worth leaving home to see. 7/10
This post was edited on 11/16/11 at 7:30 am
Posted on 12/8/11 at 4:13 pm to TulaneLSU
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Never Say Never Never would I think I'd say that spending $10 on my Never Say Never ticket was the best value for money of anything I bought this year, but here I am to say that. The movie itself is good. It's an interesting documentary on a kid who is trying to stay a kid in this big world. The music is great. The sequence and timing are superb. But what puts this movie over the top are the fans. That's right. By the end of the movie, 75% of the theater, consisting mostly of early and pre-teen girls were on the ground level with their hands up, screaming and touching the screen as if the movie were a concert. It was exhilarating to be in that number! I confess I too ran down to the floor and began dancing and screaming with the masses. What an awesome movie experience. Movie 6/10 Experience 10/10.
Holy shite I'd never seen this.
Awesome.
Posted on 12/13/11 at 12:56 pm to TulaneLSU
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The Mechanic the best thing about this movie is it's filmed in New Orleans. Watching it, I was more attuned to figuring out which building or where in the city they were set. The movie has way too much blood and violence to recommend. The story is interesting enough and Straham or whatever his name plays the role well, but the movie has no message except killing. Hard to recommend a movie like that. It moves fast and is tightly knit, but the lack of a worthwhile theme makes this a bust. 3/10
Megamind It's been a couple of months since seeing this, but thought it was decent. I'm glad they reduced the role of Brad Pitt. Even though it's animation, it is a romance movie, not a kid's movie. The love Megamind has for Ms. Palin is admirable and I came to feel for the guy. 6/10
Moneyball If you think you're going to see a movie about baseball, think again. The baseball scenes are sparse and not good. This movie is about one thing and one thing only: faith despite the evidence and tradition. 3,000 or so years ago, or maybe never, a man named Abram lived. And God approached this man, telling him that if he were to leave his home, God would bless him with a new land and many descendants, despite his wife's old age and barrenness. At the time, it looked like a ridiculous commitment only a fool would make. There was no evidence that hinted that the decision would pay dividends. But Abram packed his bags and headed out, probably to the consternation and ridicule of all his neighbors who mocked him as a mad man. Faith for Abram, Karl Barth, and possibly Billy Beane was believing in something despite all the evidence, and standing back, and watching all the evidence change.
In that way, this movie is much more about a Copernican Revolution, a Abrahamic Revolution, really, than it is about baseball. Without question, this writer was influenced by Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which has deservedly become reading for college freshmen across the disciplines, so much so that the paradigm shifts it discusses have almost become cliche' in conversation. In the book, Kuhn uses history to show how normal science is governed by faith, even if its followers claim a lack of faith. Faith in a system and a method, faith in a certain ordering of ideas, is how each school of science becomes dominant, and the assumptions of that school become dogmatic, which is not meant to be used in a pejorative sense. But every system of belief has flaws and will face stalemate. Eventually, a revolutionary questions the assumptions of science to create a new form of science. This is the revolution, the paradigm shift.
Moneyball seeks through the superficial relationship between the plenipotentiary general manager of the A's, Brad Pitt, (Billy Beane) and his head scout and head coach to show a revolutionary butting heads with tradition. But the interplay doesn't work because from the get-go, the old guard is cast in a mocking way. We're never given time or reason to support anyone but Pitt and his way of thinking. Thanks to the overly revealing trailer, we know all the smart lines and ending before the beginning. Pitt is the hero and the movie is agitprop to build the hero. In that sense, the movie is one-faced, simple, and doesn't give justice to the other side, which a good drama demands. The scenes from Pitt's past don't add anything to the character or story, though the director tries to force an interpretation down our throats, but to no avail. Even more superfluous and useless is the weak attempt to bring Pitt's family into the movie. Pitt is not well cast here; his strength is shown when he plays the bad guy with the good heart, not the innovator. His relationship to Jonah Hill, whose me'tier is numbers, is clumsy. Hill is the real hero in the story, yet he is cast to the side as a troll. The only thing that really works is the message: that in order to bring real change, you need a faith in something higher than yourself because the ridicule and rejection the prophet faces is too much for one person to carry alone. Too bad Pitt's character is left as a shadow and the audience in the dark about why he believes the new system will work. 4/10
Monte Carlo I felt my soul being destroyed by this cooked u,p sentimental life-is-better with-what-you-have snoozer. It's all a crock. The message makes no sense in the movie's backdrop.
How do these girls pretend to be pleased with what they already have? For instance, Selena, she finds happiness after returning to Europe??? How does a five dollar an hour waitress afford to go back to Europe just weeks after her first trip to Europe? And her clothes? Sorry, but when you're making what she does, you're happy to have a place to sleep at night.
The other girl, the one from The Roommate, who by the way is not attractive at all, she lets go of all her pain by traveling around the world for a few months with some ex rugby player who has chicken legs, so unbelievable. How does she afford that? And how is travel throughout the world consistent with be happy with what you have? Does the producer have any clue how expensive it is to do what she did at the end? She's nothing but a hitched Julie Roberts from Eat Pray Love. She'll get tired of her new found boy, have an epiphany, and even though she's in great debt from her college education that she doesn't use for a job, she'll continue to travel.
And that last blonde, the real skanky one who cheats on her boyfriend by going out on date after date in Europe. Do we really buy that it's only through cheating that we find who we truly love? If I were her boyfriend and found those flowers, I would have kicked her skank arse to the curb. Damn whore. So what if that French guy on the boat hadn't been a jerk? Does that mean she would have fallen in love with him?
This movie is a kid's version of Eat Pray Love and totally contradicting to itself. I could have written a better script in 30 minutes. 2/10
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