Last movie you watched......

Just watched "50/50." Nice little movie, although Ben_Hecht wouldn't have liked it.

 

Most esoteric. Snark. Ever.

 

Mrs. Novelist and I went to see One for the Money. Kind of a guilty pleasure. Funnel cake in the realm of creme brulee, but sometimes you gotta have funnel cake, you know?

Watching Moneyball right now. Pitt's too cheesy, and I'm totally not buying Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe. Like the story though.

 

Entertainment Weekly gave One for the Money a D ("Imagine an Elmore Leonard movie scripted by a bad Nora Ephron imitator, and you'll have an idea of how dead-in-the-Jersey-water it is."). Judging by the trailer, it's gonna suck out loud. One of Stephanie Plum's constant worries is getting less chubby, and Heigl is not that body type. Once I heard it'd be Heigl, I didn't have high hopes.

 

It's at 3 percent on rottentomatoes.com.

That's not a typo.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_for_the_money/

 

And this one is pretty much what I fear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/money-bankrupt-material-katherine-heigl-article-1.1013187

 

And, from Travers:

 

Last one, I promise, but this made me laugh considering Moddy's last two movies:

 

I will never see a film in which Katherine Heigl is the lead. I just have no time for her.

 

Wow, it's up from yesterday. When I looked, it was at zero.

I loved the books. For that reason, I don't think I should consider seeing the movie. No Ranger could live up to what I imagine.

 

Just finished 50/50. Gonna post a spoiler-full review so don't read on if you haven't seen it ...




So, I loved this flick. I'd wanted to see it in theaters but decided I couldn't subject myself to a two-hour movie about a guy dying without tripping up my own insecurities about death and I only watched it tonight after accepting the fact that he would die.

Glad I was wrong.

Nine times out of 10, I hate movies that go with the conventional happy-time ending and the way this one was built up, I figured there was no way in hell they would end it with the sunshine, rainbow scenario of him recovering, especially considering the scenes leading up to his surgery.

For once, I'm actually glad they went the cop-out route. I was genuinely surprised and it made for a cool little moment.

Things I liked about the film: I loved the performance of Joseph Gordon-Levitt here. With this and 500 Days under his belt, the former 3rd rock from the sun kid is turning into one hell of an actor. I loved seeing his character go on the path towards self-destruction and I felt like it was real the whole time.

I also loved whoever played his therapist. She was so gorgeous and seemed like a lot of fun.

What I hated, though, was everything to do with Seth Rogen. While I'm one of the few people who liked Green Hornet, I feel like he was terrible in this flick. In fact, he kind of brought it down a bit with his "Hey, I'm Seth Rogen and I'm going to play an asshole pothead because that's all I ever do" mentality.

I was hoping for more from him but I'm starting to feel like he's a one-trick pony.

All in all, a pretty solid movie. If I were grading it, I'd give it a B only because Rogen easy lops an entire letter grade off the overall score.

EDIT: One more note. The final moments of the final scene were absolutely, 100 percent perfect. The line "Now what?" and the look Joseph Gordon-Levitt has on his face couldn't have ended the movie any better and coupled with the Pearl Jam song, from a group I normally hate, I think it might rank up there in best final moments of a movie I've seen. Just a great, great, great ending.

 

Really? No time to watch this in a movie?
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