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'33' - A human interest, uplifting story that does not keep you on the edge of your seat. Nice to see the whole story most Americans hardly paid attention to. This is for the foreign Spanish speaking market. Ho Hum despite Banderas and Binoche trying to steal scenes. If you even bother wait for cable.'The Night Before' - Rogen gives me gas. Thanks, Canada, for giving us both your funniest and foulest. This Millennial Pack holiday comedy has a few laughs (very few) but Jillian Bell (Rogen's wife) and Michael Shannon standout in their perverse roles. Gordon-Levitt has leaned on his buddies for years to provide him with a "family feeling" at Christmas. Now it is time for things to grow up and the final get together is to be killer. My question is: who writes these things? Best seen high or dead drunk.
'Love The Coopers' - CBS Films....okay, I'll just watch this on the TV next year and save my $7.50 senior ticket for something else. There is funny dialog but it all finds a way to be moralizing. Star studded to get you in the theater but not enough to keep you there. Arkin is always great. (We must love him because he is always the same guy.) Wilde and her "soon to be" are funny. Lots of characters yet narration talks down to us. If somebody has got to get out of the house--why not?
'Mocking Jay Pt. 2' - Yeeeah, it's over! You see a lot of JLaw without makeup and she looks better. The silliness draws to an end and is probably the best of the series. (Or maybe it was me anticipating the end?) The most astounding feat was the digitized Seymour Hoffman. I guess his family has surrendered to new digital royalties--even his voice was perfect. Well, they finally crack Emerald City after surviving all the treacherous booby traps, they confront Snow and enter a new era for PanAmerica. The duplicitous Peter comes home and changes his tune (again). Nice final scene wrap up. If you are invested in the books or films then you will see it. If not, you probably have more sense than me then to waste you time seeing it in the first place.
Edits: 11/26/15Follow Ups:
Your movie reviews are very entertaining, well written and in this case better than the real thing apparently. Thanks for watching these for us so we don't have to.
Edits: 11/28/15
Wow Billy. So many films. I liked the first two Mockingjay films. Nothing great but good popcorn films. The third was crap. Good news you like the final installment. I will see it on your tepid recommendation.
...not bad - #1 was the best. This is perhaps as good as #2. #3 was a waste and a money-grab.
Not many surprises in this one.
As a ghoulish desert to my feast of merdemince pie. Beautifully done, astounding CGI with tons of pyrotechnics--it takes a lot of electrical explosions to bring something back to life. It was a Steampunk Dream set in a grand and glorious Britain. McAvoy was neglecting his medical studies in order to create life. Chuck Dance, his ever stern father, disapproved immensely to the point of cutting off his funds. Poor Radcliffe was rescued from the circus where he was abused and tormented as a pitiful hunchback. McAvoy helped him escape in one of the most elaborate getaway scenes in recent memories. More pyrotechnics.
Weak Tummy Spoiler: Once McAvoy get Radcliffe home he immediately discovers he's not a hunch back but has a gigantic cyst. He attacks it with a huge syringe and primes the drainage like one would siphon gas--complete with mouthful spitting. Ew.
Radcliffe is then renamed as Igor because the real Igor ran off. And so the experiments continue.
Quite a visual spectacle for such a dumbass story.
50/50. A rational man would wait for cable.
"It's Alive, it's alive"- just fantastic.
...I wondered what you'd see - you saw them all, except Rocky 7.
Reviewer here gave the Rogan film 4 stars, 5 if you were high, but Rogan is an acquired taste.
Going to see Mockingjay later this evening.
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