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The Gift (2015)
Good-Guy/Bad-guy
Part way in, I thought this was going to be a Good-Guy/Bad-guy movie, with the question being resolved at the end.
It wasn't! I sat through the credits trying to figure it out. I almost asked the usher on the way out. Maybe I should have stayed in the theater and watched it a second time.
I hadn't heard anything about this. I didn't see it advertised. It was playing at a convenient time and it had gotten good reviews. It wasn't a blood-and-guts movie, and it didn't appear to be, nor was it, a horror movie.
I'm still wondering: Did I miss something? Was it clear who was the Good Guy and who was the Bad Guy? Is there something I didn't understand?
This was good - really good. Very worthwhile seeing.
American Sniper (2014)
Great movie, bad story
Odd. It was an excellent movie, well produced, well directed, well acted. Excellent special effects.
However, I didn't like the story. I recently watched, for the second time, Apocalypse Now, and I felt the same way about that film.
I've also seen Zero Dark Thirty and Full Metal Jacket. I thought these, too, were excellent films but somehow I found them as better stories, much better films to watch. These two films I would watch again, but I wouldn't watch American Sniper or Apocalypse Now again. The only reason I watched Apocalypse Now the second time because such a long time had passed and I didn't remember it
It was a good film, but I wouldn't recommend it. I'm glad I don't have to participate in the Academy Awards selection process.
The Road (2009)
Not for the casual film goer
I just saw this tonight and I'm still digesting it.
It is NOT for the casual film-goer, or a first-date as others have said. I went with my daughter. She hated it but we talked about it all the way home afterward. Maybe she didn't digest it either.
I didn't read the book; maybe I will now just to compare. If someone asked me an opinion I would warn them that it isn't a conventional story told in a conventional manner. The characters, and their behavior, is what's important and what's been told. You see the changing of the character of the father, and the slow maturing of the son. The other parts are only minor supporting parts.
I guess I could say it was a very well made movie, even if it wasn't overly exciting or attractive to me.
The Weinstein's make good movies and I don't want to discourage them; that's my I don't want to be critical.