Think Out Loud [6] Movies!

I'm a sucker for sports movies and romantic comedies. I love finding a foreign film that can make me forget I'm reading all the lines. All those big blockbusters with monster budgets love me; I'm their target audience. Slapstick comedy, bring it on. Sappy love stories, hello, right here. I've even seen way more horror movies than a wussy girl like me has any right.

 

Here are few hit and misses I've watched this year.

Misses:

Skyfall - I think if James Bond is licensed to kill he should have a bigger gun. The opening scene drove me nuts. I'm Bond. I wear a slick suit in the boiling sun. I have a tiny gun and maybe two extra clips, but I'm good with my hands. I'll chase you to the ends of the earth...to the top of a super fast train. I'll fail, I'll get ... SPOILER ALERT ... I'll get shot, fall a long way to the water below, be rescued by a mermaid (seemed that way in the opening credits), be too injured to shoot straight, but not too injured to have sex with the hot mermaid up against a wall, then I'll call myself old dog for the rest of the movie while I sex my way to being the cranky, tired hero. Grrh! Bourne Legacy and Jack Reacher were much better action/suspense movies.

 

Flight - This is the best example of a fantastic preview and a crappy movie. I was hoping for something triumphant, what I got was an alcoholic going through the basic stages, pre-rock bottom, rock bottom, enlightenment, but throw in a plain crash at the beginning. GRRH!! A much better movie about alcoholism is When a Man Loves a Woman. Heavy and amazing.

 

Chasing Mavericks - This one was my mistake. If I had known this was a true story, I would have looked into the main character's story. I have to suggest Soul Surfer here as an alternative. It's my favorite surfing/true story movie out there.

Hits!!! 

Perks of Being a Wallflower was so amazing. My head is still swimming with scenes flashing so vividly my moods are affected by what tidbits I recall. I had to return the movie to the library, but I plan to hop right back on the waiting list. Sure, this is a coming of age movie, but it's more than that. It's a movie about trauma and pain and loneliness. About fitting in and finding where you fit in. It's about the damage caused by terrible actions. It's about soaring, screaming, laughing, and crying. It's about falling in love with friends, with that one person you'll never get over, with yourself. Can you tell it's one of my new favorites? 

 

Here Comes the Boom is funny and sweet and throw in that's it's a sports movie, I loved it. Kevin James hasn't been this good since Hitch. There's a bit of romance, but mostly bromances all over the place. I cheered, laughed, cringed, laughed again. Great family fun for sure!



Jack Reacher was so much fun, and then sometimes not fun at all. I wrote a movie review for this one because of the car chase scene...so awesome! Remember, I'm the target audience. Tom Cruise played the role perfectly and romance didn't play into the story at all, which was refreshing. The bad guys were Russian prison type bad guys, guys impervious to little things like pain and loss. I covered my eyes a couple times, I admit it.

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