Movies Galore

We saw a million movies over the holiday break. And they were all serious and somber, I feel like I need to get in a comedy pretty soon here.

Seven Pounds

I love Will Smith. He is a wonderful actor. That said, Seven Pounds was a very slow-paced movie. I read the review before and was nervous I would fall asleep, but it kept me interested through its slowness. Rosario Dawson was lovely and it's a love story, and a story of redemption. I enjoyed seeing it in the theaters, but probably would not see it again. 3 out of 5.


Doubt

I was drawn to this movie because of the Oscar buzz and its wonderful actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Amy Adams. It was a good movie, but as my brother-in-law Sam put it, the whole movie could be summed up in 2 sentences, and it was a 2 hour movie. It is about a catholic school and the main nun accuses the father of abusing a child. Very dark in tone, which I liked. The acting was worth it and I give it a 3 out of 5.


Curious Case of Benjamin Button

This was my favorite out of all 4 holiday movies. Also getting Oscar buzz, the story just makes me smile. It's about a boy who is born looking like he is 90 years old, and he ages backwards. It got kind of bizarre when he had lived a full life and reverted back into a baby, but all in all I really really liked the movie. The love story was so good and Brad Pitt, who I don't particularly like or dislike, did a very good job at playing a man of all ages. Someone in front of me said the movie reminded them of The Notebook, that's pushing it too far, the love story wasn't that good! I heard another comparison to Big Fish, and that is a far better comparison. 4 out of 5.

Valkyrie

Juan just had to see this movie. He loves Tom Cruise (don't even try the Scientology weirdo, he has Katie locked up theory on Juan, he gets very defensive). I did not like this movie. It is during WWII and I just finished a fabulous book set in WWII and so of course I was comparing. The character development was not good. I was not invested in the main characters, although it was quite suspenseful at times. It's about an assassination attempt on Hitler, which also ruined the movie because we all know it wasn't successful. There was no suspense when it came to that. 2 out of 5.