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Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Charming, but stop telling me what to feel....
The best word to describe this movie was purely charming. The atmosphere, the dialog, the actors, even the soundtrack, all of it was charming. It's a sweet date night sort of film that I would have happily spent two dollars on to see it at the local discount theater.
So why only 6/10? Because I paid full price for the ticket, and I don't like paying full price for a movie that feels it needs to dictate how I should feel about various characters. Granted, a movie is supposed to guide you along to feel certain things and gain certain reactions, but there's something wrong when a movie needs the characters to tell me just how great they are or how long they've been doing something. I kind of get the feeling that the entire first act of the movie had to be scrapped, so to make up for it they decided to have the characters tell me that this person is so very sweet and that person is horribly addicted to their work.
I expect this sort of thing in the most recent trend of action movies that leave so little room for things to actually develop beyond the action. Yet for a film that's supposed to be thought-provoking, it doesn't leave a person room to think for themselves. Please, with movies like this, stop telling me I'm supposed to love this character or be annoyed with that character. Instead, ~show~ me why I should feel the way you want me to Movie. Otherwise I would rather save myself ten dollars and wait until you come out into the two dollar theater, thank you.
Tangled Ever After (2012)
An Excellent Short From an Excellent Movie
I adored the original movie, and it ranks as one of my top five favorite Disney movie in recent years. I winced a little inside when I first read about this sequel, having seen how horribly Disney tends to handle sequels to beloved classics of old and new. I decided to check it out though since it would only be six minutes of my time, and I'm so glad I did.
The short managed to hold true to the characters from the original movie down to a t, and the graphics are beyond epic for a short cartoon. What I enjoyed most is that it's a great throw-back to the shorts of old, retaining a beginning, middle, and end, yet keeping the slap-stick and jokes enjoyable and just plain fun! The few nay-sayers who reviewed this seemed either too young to remember the old days when the likes of Looney Toons and Hanna-Barbera used to throw in a ripe morsel of entertainment to get us that much more in the mood for the main feature. Either that, or they simply don't grasp the concept of a fun short cartoon built solely for the entertainment value.
If you're one of the many who do remember those times though, or if you know just how to have a good laugh and enjoyed the original film, be sure to catch Tangled Ever After. You won't be disappointed!
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Pick a Freakin' Genre!
I wanted to like this movie, I really did. Leonardo DiCaprio has been epic in his previous movies, and had done Gatsby so much wonderful credit from the book I couldn't help but to wonder if he himself was a fan. After King of Wallstreet, and the high reviews this movie had received, I was excited and I really, really wanted to like this movie. I walked away feeling as if I had wasted not just the price of a movie ticket, but a painful, excruciatingly long 180 minutes of my time that felt closer to 300 minutes.
Not only did this movie utterly fail in knowing when to cut things off (there were multiple times in the movie I expected the next scene to conclude the story, only to be dragged through more scenes that weren't needed), but it couldn't seem to decide what it wanted to be. The humor is a wash between slapstick, big-lipped alligator moments, god-awful prejudice against an assortment of groups, with a bit of witty commentary on the ridiculousness of the stock market and what big suckers most buyers are. Just a bit though, after all, let's not take things too seriously since there's drug addiction, adultery, and idiocy galore! I had suspected that some fridge logic was involved in all this since there was just enough wit to keep me in my seat. I felt like despite the movie's horrendous length, maybe I had missed something in the storyline that would wrap everything up in such a way as to explain the high rating and reviews and that this would be brilliant. Well, weeks later, I'm still left feeling utterly at a lost at how this movie is still rated so high. I'm starting to think that the movie industry is beginning to be plagued by what I lovingly refer to as the "Napolean Dynamite Desease", where a movie falls so short of a delivery and yet is rated at such critical acclaim. Hell, at least Napolean Dynamite had some okay quotes to make up for its anticlimatical ending. Wolf of Wallstreet just left me feeling empty inside. The only saving grace was the bit of comedy that didn't go so deep into the utterly ridiculous that it was actually funny.
If you want to waste your time and money on this excuse to throw midgets around, go right ahead. Give me King of Wallstreet any day of the week.