Peacock

This should have been good, maybe it was, but I didn't like it at all. There were moments where I wondered what was going to happen, but it was so unsettling and slow that it wasn't worth my time. It's a twisty, strange story about a man who has lost his mother. It's like Norman Bates of Hitchcock fame, mets Lars and the real girl with none of the humor. From the very first it has an unsettling, creepy feel about it. Why they wrote it and why some good actors thought it would be good is beyond me.

If you try it, I'd really like to hear your opinion of this worthless story.

Despicable Me

This is one of the best movies of all time! I had no expectations, I thought it was going to be stupid or insulting. Instead, I discovered a priceless little nugget. A real heart warming adventure. The story and voyage of self discovery and how it effects all around is a message that can and should make us all strive for a better life, to be a little less despicable.

Dinner For Schmucks

I really had low expectations for this one, I was sure that a dinner where you bring your candidate for worst loser sounded like a horrible idea and a horrible premise for a movie. Several of the characters in the movie felt the same way.

But you know sometimes in the opening moments of a movie that you've stumbled on something with promise, like the opening of Ghostbusters. The music of this was from the beginning, funny, or promised to be and it delivered.

I was surprised, there was a lot of story before the dinner and it was not just bearable, it was down right charming. But the dinner just promised to be a train wreck and the set up is part of the comedy genius of this flick.

This was a great comedy! Thinking people will enjoy the life lessons, the rest of us will just laugh at it!

The Lottery Ticket - Eck

This is a movie that had some value, but you had to suffer through too much to get to it.

The ghetto, lowlife idots that populate the movie are uncomfortable to watch. I wouldn't want to live in their neighborhood, because I'd be afraid they would drag me down to their level. This is about living in the projects and having little hope of getting out. The thing is, it's not pleasant and it's dangerous and why would anyone want to pay to see this movie?

It's well done, well edited and has a very good plotline, it's just so difficult to watch!

Flipped, I flipped for it!

Rob Reiner directed this film and it was quite an unexpected nugget. Throughout the unusual film which shifts from viewpoint to viewpoint and back again, I wondered where is this going to go?
We start with the neighbor boys' viewpoint and then shift to the same story from the neighbor girls' viewpoint. In this story it worked and it couldn't have been easy to adapt the book to film.
You never know how the story will turn out but you feel that whatever happens, it will be the right thing for Julie in the end.
A heartwarming look at people, relationships and family.

It's A Druid Solstice Miracle!!

30 Rock...Jeanne doesn't usually care for it but the last episode, "Christmas Attack Zone," had us both laughing. I think Tina Fey is a comedy genius. And this episode is so quirky. It's really about the jacked up way people in big cities get to feeling about the holidays. The whole thing was a constant riot.

You can see it on Hulu if you missed it, but you need to see it while you can.

A Christmas Carol w-Jim Carey

With a great cast and wonderful director, how could this version of a Christmas Carol be a miss? And yet it was. Jeanne and I watched it all the way through Tuesday nite, the day of its' release and we were completely bored. Jeanne commented that there was nothing new that they brought to the story. The next day we talked about it again and agreed that there were some bits that had been interesting, but just not enough to carry the movie.

I didn't care for the animation on occasion when the characters would appear jerky. The style was that of the "Polar Express" but this movie was devoid of the magic of that movie. This was more of a ghost story, but one you didn't believe in.

One Good Man

There are many poor reviews on the Deseret News website and I think the folks that were reviewing were mostly those who hadn't seen the film. It's true that many LDS films are lousy, but this one isn't. It's real, sensitive and not afraid to let silence speak. A very well done, very entertaining view of what it's like to be LDS.

Jeanne says that it's the best of the LDS films and I agree.

Repo Men..R rated

Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker star in this first rate science fiction film. It's reminiscent of Blade Runner as well as Minority Report, but it's completely unique and fast paced. No science fiction film works if it doesn't have a solid plot, there has to be a story and this has a very clever story that held my attention. I really don't want to say more because I wouldn't want to ruin it for you. It is graphic in many blood and guts scenes, these repo men deal in organs and they went for realism.

Lone Star

I really enjoy the start of the new season. But I didn't think much of "Lone Star" It just didn't seem engaging. The main character is a con-man, married to two women and it just didn't grab me. I try to give each show a fair view, but they need to be fairly well executed. This had a fairly good cast, but the concept just wasn't engaging to me.