The Time Traveler's Wife - starring: Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams ... now the haters can say "soft!" or "chick flick" ... but ever since I was a kid watching Back to the Future, I've been fascinated with the concept of time travel ... so watching this movie was a no-brainer for me ... now the generic chick flick formula is: guy meets girl, guy gets girl, relationship is tested, ultimately end up together ... now in this film, the guy got with and married the girl right away, complete departure from the "formula" ... the movie centers around Bana's character's uncontrollable ability to time travel and the hinderences on his marriage with McAdams' character ... my only complaint about the movie is that a couple of characters that were explicity stated to be "important" figures were merely bystanders, honestly served no purpose at all to me ... but all-in-all, the movie had elements that had the same feel as Field of Dreams and Phenomenon, two movies I loved ... on top of that, one of the scenes in this movie was filmed right in front of one of my university classrooms, which was cool ... score: 4/5
Law Abiding Citizen - starring: Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler ... my thoughts before watching this movie ... 1) a lot of hype, had people buzzing and 2) I'm not a fan of Jamie Foxx and I'm not familiar with Gerard Butler ... well watching this movie, all that got thrown out the window ... this film was just brilliantly done ... Butler's character was what made the movie for me, the quintessential villain ... had a full grip on the question of morality ... a psycho, who had full right to be, but extremely intelligent at the same time, always one step ahead ... had me saying to myself, "how do you out-think an intelligent psycho?" ... so when the movie hit its climax, I had the same expression on my face that Butler's character did ... "brilliant!" ... only a minor complaint ... there were a couple scenes that I saw coming from a mile away, but it didn't take away from the film at all ... score: 4.25/5
~J-Smooth~
3 comments:
I was going to say that BabyGirl is changing you and then I realized...
Love actually and now Time Travelers Wife?
It was there all along.
sign the contract ... Black Prophet is ducking J-Smooth in this challenge LOL
It will be drafted for our dinner.
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