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50/50 (2011)
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The film's only real weakness can be found in the girlfriend and mother characters. Howard and Huston give the roles their best efforts, but both of them are stuck with stereotypical and predictable character arcs. We know exactly how each of them will behave from the moment we meet them, and they offer little to the overall experience.50/50 was inspired by Reiser's own experiences with cancer in his mid twenties, and if there's a message to the movie it's that laughter really is the best medicine. Clichéd? Sure, but that doesn't make it any less true. Finding the humor in any situation is an often overlooked key to survival, and while the film never shies away from the pain, suffering, and depression associated with an experience like this, it stays true to its core belief. The people who make you laugh, in good times and bad, are the people you want and need to keep close.
The Vow (2012)
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Where the movie started to lose me however, and where I feel much of its potential is squandered, is in McAdams' character. I completely understand that someone suffering from a memory loss such as hers would be living in their own nightmarish situation, constantly confused and even frightened of the foreign people, places, and routines that used to define who they were. I get that this story is as emotionally decimating for her as it is for him. What I don't understand is why she actively resists Tatum as if he were some sort of troll. They work into the script that she used to be an entirely different person before she met him, and before a certain event changed her perception of her family and her own identity. But until we find out what that event is, we are left with the staggering, black-and-white personality about-face which she seems all too happy to embrace. It makes us wonder how one event could have made her voluntarily leave this life in the first place and whether the car accident at the beginning of the film was the first she had survived.
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
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I thought Christine Brown was great. She fought back and really wrestled with her options. I would love to see a sequel, but I am not sure how they would do it. Hell is not really Hell if there is possibility of escape, so a Justin Long tries to get her back sequel would be pretty grim. If she was really good, she would not have fallen victim in the first place. I thought the Hume was a little much. I prefer scary to funny or disgusting, but when it comes to horror movies where there is more to fear than just death, this is the only decent one I can think of. Raimi is in to sequels so that might be possible. Howsoever, he tends more towards the Lovecraft viewpoint than the biblical (while using his own mythologies) . I.e. there are gods and demons but none of them are nice. In Lovecraft, the only reason nice places like we know can even exist is because the universe is in a temporary state where the bad things are dead — but they will eventually revive. Meanwhile their servants are bad enough. Course, maybe Justin Long can get Tim Allen and the crew of the USS Protector to come help. They owe him one. Since Sigourney Weaver is in that lineup, the Lima would be in deep serious trouble.
2:37 (2006)
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2:37 marks the cinematic debut of young South Australian filmmaker Murali K Thalluri.
It's R-rated because of its theme of teen suicide. This event is discovered in the very first minutes of the film. We don't know the identity of the student who killed him or herself but the film goes back to the beginning of the day to track the lives of six teenagers who might or might not be the victim.
Each of these young high school students are coping with problems, ranging from pregnancy to incontinence.
2:37 copped a lot of criticism when it screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival this year because of its similarity in style at least to Gus Van Sant's Palm d'Or –winning Elephant, which was also set in a high school.
Van Sant famously used long tracking shots and repeated moments in time from different angles to establish a day in the life of a school. And the similarities in style at least are unmistakable.
But Thalluri gives much greater access to these teen lives than van Sant would ever dream of. Just about every teen problem from fear of one's sexuality to incest is represented.
The performances from a group of unknown actors are impressive, they are reportedly fellow students of the director. But the denouement at the end leaves one with a feeling of having been manipulated, undoubtedly by a young man with talent, but manipulated nevertheless.
It's hard to sort the chaff from the wheat with this one, don't you think David?