Change Your Image
kentotas
Reviews
The End of the Tour (2015)
nice portrait of D. Wallace Foster but technical issues (music supervision)
As a big fan Of David Foster Wallace's writing, I thought Jason Segel did a great job bringing him to life and capturing his mannerisms. I think they could have dived more into his issues with depression and alcoholism though. A lot of his book talks about AA meetings and his addiction.
Also, could have been discussed about his days at Amherst as a math genius and how that ultimately translated into him becoming a literary genius.
My technical issue has to do with the music supervision: Why is it that when we say Wallace and the Rolling Stone reporter driving to and from the convenience store there is 1980's music playing on the radio? And then when they are at the restaurant and the convenience store, there is 1980's music playing and YET - when they return back to Wallace's home. they talk about his Alanis Morrisette poster (she never became popular until the mid 1990s). The music supervisor should be fired. Any movie fanatic will be irritated by this sloppy music faux pas.
Girl Most Likely (2012)
5150 psych hold does not exist in NY or NJ-check facts!!
While I thought the script was funny and the acting solid, I always get hung up on screenwriter's lack of fact checking. When Wiig gets placed under involuntary psych. care, they call it a "5150" - That term is only used in L.A. - not in NY or NJ!!! I realize most screenwriters are based in L.A. (including this one) but can't they do some basic fact-checking before you write the final script? It seems lazy not to and it makes me lose interest in the film as a whole once I see these types of glaring errors. I know this isn't a serious dramatic film on psych disorders but it isn't the no-budget junior high school production of Oklahoma either.
Love Actually (2003)
A 30 second Hallmark Card Commercial in over an hour
Basically. this film is a 30 second fluffy Hallmark love commercial in over an hour.
What this film does not realize is that very few people fall in love or try to fall in love within seconds. No significant amount of time spent on figuring how or why these people got in love or why it is important. A brief, cursory look at the why and how of love would be beneficial.People would be better off watching a series of cheap :30 second commercials on the topic of relationships than watching this crapola.
There were so many stereotypical themes: the upper class English writer who proposes to the poor Portuguese maid, the royalty (Hugh Grant) who decides to "slum it" and approach the middle to lower class aid, the British guy who decided all British women were uptight and would move to American where all women were "loose".
Lots of stereotypes and lots of predictability. Typical.