Good movie rentals...

With the holiday season upon us and cold stay at home weather ahead (someday!) here are a few suggestions for movie rentals




Warrior

Folks, I tried  to tell you when it was in the theaters.  If you didn't see it and you probably didn't because it left the theaters in a hurry, you need to rent this movie.  Even if you are like Jill Daniels and disagree with every review I do you will like this movie.  Trust me.

It's not a fighting movie.  It's a good family movie with a story that happens to have some fighting in it.  If the fighting makes you squeamish you can easily look the other way for a the short time it's on screen.





Friends with Benefits

This movie suffered greatly by coming out a few months after what seemed to be similar No Strings Attached with Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman.  From the trailers it seemed to be the same movie with different less famous actors.  That is not the case.  I'm not a big fan of Justin Timberlake.  I think he can act sometimes but for the life of me can't figure out what females find so sexy about him.  Never really cared for Mila Kunis either.  Yet I liked this movie alot.  It was far better than No Strings Attached. Kunis shows she can be very funny.  The movie has some good lines and flows right along.

I found it well worth the price of a rental.



Win Win

I'm guessing most of you have not even heard of this movie.  Or you saw the goofy picture above and saw some goofy middle aged man sitting beside a kid in a wrestling outfit and thought there was no way that was for me.  I thought the same thing.  I had read good reviews and think Paul Giamatti is a great actor.  But look at it.  How interesting can a movie with high school wrestling be???  Turns out, pretty darn good.

I'm not even going to give you details on what it is about.  If you have nothing else to rent give this a try and say you are going to blame Royce if this sucks.  I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.  I was.




Larry Crowne

When previews for this movie came out I thought it looked interesting but could go either way.  Then the brutal reviews followed.  Maybe not.  I rented and it was better than I expected.  I admit a movie with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts should be GREAT.  This one is just good.  Well worth the rental fee.