Tag Archives: Brad Pitt

Moneyball

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This had some good moments, and a good message about always trying to find the next angle. Ultimately, we do get to see enough of the back story of Billy Beane to make sense out of his character.

But, I would have liked to know more about the Bean Counter (the Jonah Hill character – Peter Brand), he’s the one who really made the system work; Billy Beane just gave him a shot because he was desperate. Who was this kid? Why was he working in the bowels of the Cleveland Indians office? did he have any friends? family? Passions? Feelings? He just kind of stood around like none of that mattered. No knock on Jonah Hill, who I thought did a fine job, but I thought the script really short-changed his character.

Babel

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This movie tried a little too hard to pull at our emotions… and because of that I thought it was like cheating, and it lost its heart. There are some well-crafted scenes (liked the grittiness of the mexican wedding), but on the whole, I just felt like I was being fed a lie.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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Yes, this was interesting to watch, just for the curiosity factor… How about a movie where someone ages in reverse? Isn’t that interesting? Yes, I suppose… But I’m not sure I really learned much about anything. I don’t need to learn something every time I watch a movie, bit this was one of those movies that had an aura like it was teaching some grand life lesson… But there really wasn’t one that I could discern. I was just left thinking… “hmm… I guess that was interesting”.

The Assassination of Jesse James

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Can a movie that’s more style than substance actually work? Yes, I think so… There is enough substance here to keep the balance, and although the style sometimes goes over the edge (things like selective/tilt focus and such), the movie was very watchable. The pace was a bit slow, but I didn’t m ind. The main character – the guy doing the assassinating – was really bothersome at first, but he kind of grew on me. As for Brad Pitt? Something troubles me about him, but I’ll have to say that I’ve liked most of the stuff he’s done.

Burn After Reading

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How many times have you seen a movie about some caper and the plot just gets deeper and deeper until there’s a conspiracy for someone to take over the world? Well, this movie is the opposite of that. A bunch of fools stealing something that just isn’t that valuable… A guy who thinks he’s way more important than he is… you get it. Twisted hilarity ensues.

Troy

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All the younger actors in this movie were great – I really liked Brad Pitt in it (and Eric Bana, etc… even that wimply guy who woo’d Helen was OK). But the older Kings? They were too “unkingly”, and “unwise”. Maybe that was part of the point, but it really made the movie frustrating to watch. As for its adherence to the “true story”? Get over it! It’s not a truly told story anyway, so who cares? People who get all worked up about “the classics” miss the point I think. The classics were never classics when they were written – they were just the pop fiction of their day.

 

Seven Years in Tibet

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I thought this movie was a lot better than the “word on the street” made it out to be. I actually liked Brad Pitt in it. I couldn’t believe people were upset that he was a nazi… like the movie somehow forgave the nazis or something. You know, a lot of nazis were really bad people, but most of them were just caught up in the whole thing. BP’s character wasn’t even a real supporter of the nazis either, he just wanted to go climb mountains. If you’re upset about that whole angle, then I guess you hated Das Boot too.

 

Se7en

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I never really can get into “lunatic” movies because they always make these people out to be geniuses, when they never really would be. Go see “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” if you want to see a good lunatic movie.

Oh, and that title? very clever with the 7 instead of the V. Very very clever.