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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
can I get my money back?
What a cruel joke! We thought this was a pretty terrible movie. Perhaps if you are a lover of folk music trivia you can find subtle meanings. It was lost on us and we are big 60's folk music fans although we did enjoy the soundtrack. There were no characters in this film that we liked or cared about. Of course folk singers did have trials and tribulations in pursuing their craft but they were people with values, nothing like the singer portrayed here. The plot meandered from one mean vignette to another. The John Goodman sequence wasn't funny or deep, it was just annoying. The hallmark seemed to be that everyone when off on an irrational rant for whatever reason. The use of profanity was overdone. It further belittled the characters. I'm shocked that the film has apparently gotten some measure of critical acclaim.
I was certainly expecting something clever and amusing. This was not it.
The Beaver (2011)
Painful to watch, a disappointment
I really like Jody Foster and wanted to like this movie that she has been making the rounds on talk shows for. I found Gibson's character and his family totally unsympathetic, just sad. The therapeutic puppet strategy which I believe is used often with children just didn't seem fitting to me. The whole thing seemed too strange and too painful to watch. The plot meandered all over the map and didn't hold my interest. The flopping between comedy and dark drama was unsettling and jarring. Very unrealistic to my thinking. Perhaps a less rough hewn actor or cuter puppet might have carried it better. Some of the puppet sequences seemed twilight zone creepy. I came out feeling unsatisfied and depressed.