Last movie you watched......

'42' should have been GREAT, and was only OK.

One thing it was missing was an epilogue scene in 1949, when Rickey 'took the wraps off' Robinson, said he could do or say anything he wanted to anybody who gave him any shit on the field, and Robinson responded with one of the great MVP seasons of all time, and shocked opponents and fans by suddenly jumping into fights, umpire brouhahas, etc etc.

Robinson developed a rep as a 'hothead' for the rest of his career, precisely the thing Rickey wanted to avoid in 1947. But by 1949 Robinson was established and nobody was running him out, so his response, essentially, was "too fuckin' bad," to anybody who didn't like his attitude.

You can bet Spike Lee would have left THAT in.

 

Draft Day. Fantastic.

 

Are you high?

Any person on this board could have written a more plausible script.

 

Watched American Hustle this weekend and if I didn't already know David O. Russell directed it, I would have thought it was a Scorcese film. Really enjoyed it. The music, the performances and the story were all top notch. It deserved all the accolades it received.

 

Maybe. And maybe. But I thought it was great. Much funnier than I thought it would be, and the dialogue overall was very good. Different strokes, I guess.

Does a movie - or a TV show, for that matter - have to be plausible to be entertaining?

 

It helps. I know I find it distracting if the story is not plausible.

 

I could have dealt with unrealistic with a Hollywood ending.

This was so much beyond that it wasn't even funny.

There are three main points to the main plot. None of them would ever happen in a million years.

 

I'll back you up on Moonrise Kingdom, and I like (most of) Anderson's films. Seeing an 11 and 12 year old fool around was not something I ever needed to see. Aside from the fact that the plot is just too out there. Plus Bill Murray getting abused by his wife?

 

I saw Draft Day with the family and was happy that we could together go see:

1. sports movie;
2. no special effects;
3. sports movie.

I had a really hard time with the primary transaction because no way that's done under the circumstances depicted. Now for my wife and kids, that went over their head so they really enjoyed the movie.

For me, pretty cool to see a beauty like Jennifer Garner who loves football; but then to see her wearing 5 inch heels on draft day and a skirt? Come on, if a woman is in the front office, she's in khakis and a button down and flats.

Overall, implausible but entertaining. What blew me away was how much of the NFL Draft they recreated.

 

You mean you don't think a team would trade three No. 1 picks to draft a QB they knew nothing about?

And that was actually the most plausible of the trades that took place in the movie.

 

We saw this yesterday and it was great. Loved it. It's a funny, quirky, witty and charming caper story.

 

After going to see The Grand Budapest Hotel, we came home, packed for Puerto Rico and then had dinner while watching Rush. This was a very good movie that portrayed two drivers, who weren't very likeable and did not like each other, but Howard kept it interesting while making us try to understand the personality of both Hunt and Louda. This was just a well-done film.

On the way to Puerto Rico, the in-flight film was Ender's Game. I liked it and it held my interest, although the whole "you fooled me" aspect at the end felt like an unfulfilled ending. My girlfriend was bored with the film. It was a decent popcorn (or in-flight) flick, but not what I would call a great movie.