Daredevil

Not the worst superhero movie I've seen. Not good either. It felt like it didn't have any idea what it wanted to be. Like they sat down and made a list of all the characters and concepts they needed to cover and pasted them together with a halfhearted plot and some horribly dated early 2000s licensed music. On the one hand, it seemed to want to be Batman. A gritty noir take on the superhero genre. But it kept taking lengthy forays into over-the-top goofiness, often while hopelessly trying to maintain a sense of drama. Plus, the acting was unremarkable at best (stick to directing, Ben), the moralizing and symbolism were ham-fisted incoherence, and many bits of dialogue sounded like they were written by a 5th grader. The wire-fu fight scenes were mildly entertaining, but not THAT entertaining. Like the rest of the movie, they oozed wasted potential.

Still better than the wretched Green Hornet reboot, but not really worth seeing.

Looper: Really enjoyed it. Gordon-Levitt did a great job as Little Bruce, and the story was interesting and well-shot. And I LOVED that they basically ignored the paradox that the story creates.
[Spoilers ahead:] My only real problem was that I didn't feel like they built up the Ringmaker to be all that evil. I mean, yeah, he took control of a bunch of things and started closing loops, but... Isn't that a good thing? They're hitmen for future mobsters, they're not exactly good guys. I may have missed something with all the Big Bruce vs Little Bruce mumbling...
[Spoilers over]

The Lonely Guy: Cute early-80s Steve Martin comedy. Not much else to say, really. Charles Grodin was in it.

She was competent in Braveheart, but yeah, just a pretty face.

Hobbit! totally recommend it!

Saw Gangster Squad last night, really enjoyed it.

Alucarda
-a few nights ago I couldn't sleep so I turned on the tv to the shitty cheap channel to fall asleep to some movie, I saw some old mexican horror movie from the late 70's with witches and satan and lesbians and nuns. Although it was really cheap, over acted a lot and really silly I couldn't help not watching all of it, it was one of the most bizzare movies I've ever seen. Worth a watch if you're into horror movies and dont mind going into cheap obscure B movie land.

Yeah, Looper was one of my favorites of 2012. Setting aside a few of the expected plot holes (why not kill them in the future and just send the bodies back for disposal?), I thought it was really incredibly tight and well made, with many scenes that were little gems in their own right.

Also, I always find it really funny to watch Garret Dillahunt try to be anyone other than Bert from Raising Hope.

Rurouni Kenshin 2012

Gave me the same good Samurai vibe as 13 Assassins, Abarenbo Shogun and Hidden Fortress.

Sherlock Holmes, game of shadows

Immensely boring. Boring. Terribly boring. Heavy. And boring.

And what's with "two mules for sister sarah" in the middle ? Hans Zimmer's industrial derivative movie factory didn't have enough of its own to spit by the meter ? Had to go fetch additional music from actually talented composers for a few more minutes of film ?

I liked "Sister Sarah". It was no "Good the Bad and the Ugly" or "Mag. 7" or "West World" or Quigly Down Under" but it was okay.

I liked it too. A bit disappointed by the reveal near the second half, that spoils a bit of the fun in retrospect. Sergio Leone absolutely hated that movie, mostly because of how predictable that aspect was.

And I love its music, and I don't like it being stolen, especially by soul-less composers for soul-less movies.

The day I saw your heart (France, 2011) :

Families are complicated...Especially when Eli, the father, who's about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes...without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family is on the verge of falling apart. Will they all be able to make peace before it's too late?

Awe-some movie.

Renoir


Interesting more as a celebration of one woman's beauty and grace than as an examination of two world famous artists and their relationship. In fact, that seems to be the point of the whole movie... that said woman is as important to the works of these artists as they themselves are.

They almost seem to be leeching from her, a notion which is reinforced by the ending which describes the fates of the main characters in text, and in a more meta way, by the fact that the movie is titled 'Renoir' despite drawing most of its appeal from Andrée Heuschling. Come to think of it, they might as well have called it 'Christa Theret'.

Also, beautiful landscapes.

Watched recently the 2 first episodes of 'House of cards' (yea I know 'tsnot a movie) with Kevin Spacey. It's not Boss, it could be compared to Boss, but the important thing is that it's as captivating as Boss.

Oz the Great and Powerful

Ehh, it was ok. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect. Stilted, kitschy, predictable, colorful, mildly enjoyable. It had a lot of ham-handed 3d, and a lot of lingering panning shots of things that could have come straight out of Alice in Wonderland. Not really worth the money I spent to see it, but not really anti-good, if you know what I mean. I...really don't know what else to say, other than to remark that Mila Kunis was obviously having a grand old time playing the Wicked Witch of the West, and that Glenda was (as always) completely devoid of anything resembling character.

Oh, and am I the only one that's bothered by the fact that it's a prequel to a movie that by its own admission actually never happened? Or is that something that was explained in one of the books?