Tag: 3 star

Snow White and the Huntsman

Snow White and the Huntsman

Posted June 4, 2012

I’m predisposed not to like Kristen Stewart. But I really wanted to like Snow White and the Huntsman so I hoped, at the very least, she’d be good enough not to ruin it. I thought: Please let her be flat. Please let her be unemotional. I’m ok with either of those. (I ought to have just come out and said, let her be Jessica Biel but it only just occured to me). If I’d had any foresight

Battleship

Battleship

Posted May 20, 2012

It doesn’t happen often, but Battleship surprised me. I expected it to be big and dumb and flashy and loud, lots of special effects and little story and less characters. But, I was curious and thought a little bit of big and flashy might be fun. Plus Taylor Kitsch never hurts.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Posted March 30, 2012

Eh.

The Hunger Games wasn’t a bad movie. But it wasn’t great either and certainly not as good as all they hype would imply.

The effects weren’t especially shiny or cool.

The action wasn’t really exciting.

There was nothing profound

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Posted December 30, 2011

This movie wasn’t really what I expected. From the preview I expected a little funny and more sex than there actually was. But it was *really* funny, much funnier than anything I’ve seen in a long time. And not a contrived sort of funny, just a really natural kind of funny. I like Steve Carell when he’s not trying to be funny and in this he was a really understandable, normal guy. I loved to see the evolution of his character and how believable it was.Ryan Gosling wasn’t entirely what I expected. I think I expected more charm, less gangster […]

Gladiator

Gladiator

Posted December 28, 2011

Gladiator is more interesting now then it ever was when I first saw it in May of 2000. Because now I have the context of Ridley Scott’s later films (Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood) so it’s fascinating to see him working out a particular aspect of his world view.

Moneyball

Moneyball

Posted September 28, 2011

Moneyball is not your typical sports-inspirational movie. And I guess that’s to be expected from Aaron Sorkin. Though, I can’t remember if Sorkin wrote the draft that Sony abandoned or if he

Iron Man

Iron Man

Posted July 28, 2011

I’m not a huge Robert Downey Jr. fan. In fact, I kind of dislike him more than I like him. Or, I did. But I was actually surprised at how much I liked this movie, even after everyone said again and again how good it is. I still didn’t expect to like it that much, because I generally don’t like him.

Captain America First Avenger

Captain America First Avenger

Posted July 24, 2011

I know I’m in the minority of people who really like this movie. Ok, maybe not the minority because it opened to $65M but it’s one of the few movies Kel and I disagreed on substantially so

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Posted June 28, 2011

I never really felt driven to see this, because I don’t really love Robert Downey Jr. and I’ve kind of been over Jude Law since 2004 (more for cheating on his wife with his nanny than the massive glut of his movies from that year). What I forgot to factor in, however, was that I really like Guy Ritchie!

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

Posted June 8, 2011

In some ways, this was a great movie and in some ways it was uneven (though not nearly as uneven as X2). But the easy stuff first:

I wasn’t thrilled with Kevin Bacon as the villain. In theory I thought it was great, but in