Letterboxd — Your life in film

Despite the producers ongoing desire to make me dislike every movie he has ever made before said film ends, I still find that his actors transcend his bs.
I liked this film, right up until the end, and still I liked it.

Scene: Movie Executive Boardroom 1997
Movie Exec 1: " Boy that Wedding Crashers movie did pretty well!"
Flash forward 2012:
Movie Exec 1: "What about Google Crashers?!"
Movie Exec 2: "Fantastic, we'll use the same script and cast!"
You: "fuck."

Meh

Baz Luhrman made one of my very favorite movies, one that fucked with the same conventions that Gatsby fails to fuck with. This was probably the most disingenuous movies I've seen. Its slick, dull and uninteresting. We've all read the book, yes, all of us except Baz. It is so bad it makes me fearful to go back and watch Moulin Rouge.

Enjoyed this film for exactly the reasons we are supposed to enjoy such films. Big, bombastic, beautiful and absurd. Shit blows up real good in a way that totally doesn't suck.

A movie that banks far too much on the attractiveness of the cast and far too little on a topic that would have benefited from a deeper examination. The public loves an explanation, sure, but did this movie really need to have one? In the end, it felt vapid.

Nebraska is one of those movies that feels important while you are watching it and almost a ghost of a memory after its over. It remind me a lot of that David Lynch movie- the one with the lawnmower. Same sort of thing. Its not a bad thing, but somehow these movies leave me feeling a bit adrift after they are over. Perhaps that is the intention?

South African accents are really interesting.
Having said that, I saw this movie twice, a rare thing for me.
The reason I saw it twice is I simply could not figure out if I loved it or hated it. I ended up a bit apathetic about it in the end. It has its moments, but its flaws *almost* outweigh them.

Saw this on an airplane. I also saw this when it was about poker. and every other time I've seen a shitty heist movie.

We should all be thankful that none of the cast of "Grown Ups" was in this film, because this film was darn near perfect. Sure it could have gone a little further to get to that final level of laughs, but it still hit the right notes all the way thru.

This movie has no idea what it is about. Probably one of the most disjointed films I've seen.
Anyone sick of Zombies yet?