Another Movie...
We rent a lot of movies.
I check new releases every week or so and grab everything I recognize that is new.
There is a problem with that logic, in that some movies do not stick in my memory. Some stick for no good reason.
As such I grab probably 80% of all action and adventure movies. Only about 65% of which are things I want to watch (while I have penchant for cheap throw-away adventures, I have very little time to watch them, and no one to watch them with).
The flipside is that I remember the names of comedy's, romances and dramas about 40% of the time, and I want to watch about 60% of them.
This leads to a stack of unwatched movies because we've watched too many "boy" movies. Moreover, these are usually the VERY boy movies, currently that includes Shoot em Up, 3:10 to Yuma, and the new Justice League cartoon.
How thankful was I then to realize, somehow, that we had skipped over Juno...
Fantastic cast, really well cast for each part with obvious attention. J.K. Simmons best role ever. He so works as a dad it made me completely reconsider him as an actor. Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner are great. Garner delivers a performance I didn't think she had in her, there are better actresses, but not for this part. The actress whose name I disrespectfully didn't know, Allison Janney comes from behind as a character you expect to be stereotypically unlikeable to being a standout in a sharply written group.
The dialog is outstanding. This is Kevin Smith dialog with more maturity, and fewer punchlines. It is superb.
I check new releases every week or so and grab everything I recognize that is new.
There is a problem with that logic, in that some movies do not stick in my memory. Some stick for no good reason.
As such I grab probably 80% of all action and adventure movies. Only about 65% of which are things I want to watch (while I have penchant for cheap throw-away adventures, I have very little time to watch them, and no one to watch them with).
The flipside is that I remember the names of comedy's, romances and dramas about 40% of the time, and I want to watch about 60% of them.
This leads to a stack of unwatched movies because we've watched too many "boy" movies. Moreover, these are usually the VERY boy movies, currently that includes Shoot em Up, 3:10 to Yuma, and the new Justice League cartoon.
How thankful was I then to realize, somehow, that we had skipped over Juno...
Fantastic cast, really well cast for each part with obvious attention. J.K. Simmons best role ever. He so works as a dad it made me completely reconsider him as an actor. Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner are great. Garner delivers a performance I didn't think she had in her, there are better actresses, but not for this part. The actress whose name I disrespectfully didn't know, Allison Janney comes from behind as a character you expect to be stereotypically unlikeable to being a standout in a sharply written group.
The dialog is outstanding. This is Kevin Smith dialog with more maturity, and fewer punchlines. It is superb.