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Rotten Tomatoes has Monuments Men clicking along at 34 percent, it will bottom out with I Frankenstein's 4 percent any day now.

The best part of the movie is Nick Clooney.

 

Dallas Buyers Club on this goddamn neverending flight.

I'm glad I didn't know anything about it beyond that McConaughey lost a lot of weight for it and the very least about Leto's character. Really a great movie, and McConaughey was great.

The moment that killed me: Leto looking back over his shoulder on his way to the hospital. Just beautiful and sad.

 

Might have saved me a road trip on MM, thanks. I don't get the opportunity to see movies and it sounds like it would have been wasted time. I can't really research movies where I live, as the internet sporadic, not free and monitored closely. My VPN acts up, too.

On I, Frankenstein. I'm sure it's been said before but Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster. Grr.

 

What's sad about Monuments Men is I had read a really terrific article in the Smithsonian Magazine about what they had done in WWII and was stoked for the movie. I wasn't stoked when I left.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-monuments-men-saved-italys-treasures-180948005/

 

The movie bizarrely tries to take on a comedic element that doesn't work.
Then it will turn right around and ask the audience to care about tragic turns in characters that were barely introduced.
A lot of unevenness from scene to scene. A great and worthy story but a miss. The National Geographic doc was miles better.

 

Hotel Rwanda - great movie

 

Our best picture nominees trek took us to both 12 Years A Slave and Philomena today.
Both excellent films.

12 Years A Slave - wow. Just wow. Beautifully written and loved how the language had a Shakespearean feel to it. Powerful movie. Superb. Of the seven Oscar nominees I've seen so far (Her and Nebraska are the two I have yet to see), I'd rank 12 Years A Slave at No. 2 just barely, and I mean, barely, behind Dallas Buyers Club.

Philomena was such a wonderful story and a bittersweet journey. Funny yet heartbreaking, it's easy to see why it received an Oscar nomination for best picture. It won't win, but you can definitely understand why it was nominated.

 

It would have been a good TV special, but they padded it to get it to 93 minutes. JG and Dreyfus were fine, but glad I didn't pay to see it.

 

The great irony is that the people who might benefit to the greatest extent by having seen it, won't.

 

It's one of the rare movies where the weirdest stuff is attached to the red herring. I'm not sure such a person has ever existed. It's so ridiculous you have to tip your cap at it.

 

Saw Her last night. What a weird movie. That said, Spike Jonze knew he was making a film with a weird storyline and didn't try to make it anything but. And the characters often poked fun at it and said things about the "relationship" between Theodore and his Operating System that I was thinking in the theater. That is just a testament to how wonderfully written the script really is.
I was also impressed with how deep the love story is. At its base, it's simply a movie about a broken man who has to learn how to love again and, surprisingly, this odd flick accomplished that task brilliantly.

 

I watched "The Ghost Writer" last night. Not the first time, mind you, but I really like it.

I'm fascinated for some weird reason by small roles in movies that stick out. I really like James Belushi's brief performance.