The big release this year is the new Transformers movie. I like the action and special effects. I missed out on the Transformers cartoon. So I get frustrated not knowing which are the good robots and which are the bad robots. Who do I root for?
I want to see the new Tom Hanks/ Julia Roberts movie Larry Crowne. Sadly it's getting hammered in the reviews and the only person I know that has seen it said it wasn't very good. I could see where this could be a sleeper. Or a rental.
I decided to rent some movies and spend some quality time with the wife. The wife time was good. The movie rentals were not.
Just Go with It
Rating- really bad.
Can anyone remember the last very good movie Adam Sandler made? It takes some thinking. This one won't make the list. The movie is based on the absurd notion that young hot babes are drawn to married men. Hot single women see the wedding ring and want to rip his clothes off. I have never found this to be the case. Sandler plays Danny. For years he has played the game of pretending to be married just to get women to sleep with him and having no attachment. He meets an amazing blonde (Brooklyn Decker) whom he tells he is married but getting a divorce. She want's to meet the ex. Danny talks his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) into pretending to be his ex wife. The movie just gets worse as it goes along.
Cedar Rapids
When I saw the trailer for this movie long ago it looked to be funny. Great reviews. Yet the movie never came to a theater near me. Surprising with the reviews and a decent cast. Ed Helms from the Hangover movies, Anne Heche and the usually likable John C. Reilly. Helms plays a naive insurance salesman who gets to go to the big city of Cedar Rapids for a convention when the lead salesman dies. The movie has spots of humor and is not overly offensive (especially compared to Hangover). The problem is the spots of humor are too seldom. Most of the movie is just dull or stupid. Not even worth a rental.
How Do You Know
This movie was so bland I saw it two days ago and for the life of me couldn't remember what it was or who was in it. The story is bad on so many levels I am amazed they got a decent cast. Reese Witherspoon plays a lady cut from the US Softball team and somehow feels her only options are a full of himself pro baseball player that treats her like crap (Owen Wilson) or a slightly more likable lawyer that is under federal investigation for a crime he probably didn't commit (Paul Rudd). I have never under stood the popularity of Rudd or Wilson. This movie seems to prove my point. Why would she pick either? Jack Nicholson is thrown in to the mix I guess because the films budget wasn't high enough? Waste of time. : <
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