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The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)
Spectacular rendition of a timeless book
One of my favorite, oft-read books is Audrey Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife. It's an all-time classic and has seemed unlikely to ever be rendered onscreen.
Amazingly, two episodes in, a brilliant team seems to have done the impossible. Render a spectacular, complex love story written with many time-jumping angles and superb characters well-acted.
Without giving anything away, I'd read the book and then watch the sublime series, ideally with someone you care about that enjoys a thinking person's film with depth, emotion and wonderfully presented with extraordinary cinematography. Kudos!
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Amazing story; film could have been better
The true story behind this film provides a lot of potential. Unfortunately, while aspects are enjoyable, the slow pace, predictability, dialogue and overacting by the cast take us down a few notches from what could have been a great sports film.
Highlights include slow pans of the Indian countryside, the wonder of the people in India found in baseball, and some of the training clips. Sadly, much of the film progresses down obvious paths, an example of wasted film (this could have been nicely condensed to a 90 minute quality film) are the reaction shots of relatives whose sons were headed to America to play a foreign sport coming from a village in the midst of quiet farmland.
The script could have included the reality that boys who enjoy rap and country/R&B music from a modern democracy (albeit one with 1+ Billion inhabitants and plenty of poor and those unable to obtain internet, university degrees, and thousands of other differences from the US/EU) don't act like 10 year olds when visiting the land with the most worldwide publicity.
Good thing the film was made. A shame it was Disnefied.
The Interview (2014)
Rather awful film (with the best free publicity North Korean hackers can provide)
Possibly the worst Seth Rogan flick with an added bonus of being pulled, then released globally via digital direct release. Unfortunately, I couldn't actually watch the whole thing. I tried, though, as my stance is in favor of freedom and against the way N. Korea treats its' citizens. The humor in the first half-hour at least, comprises low-hanging fruit, sophomoric jokes that stopped being funny when I was 12.
Simply lacking in spite of the professional production invested. Appreciate that the movie was released and have enjoyed Seth in other movies. The Sony hack added to the publicity value and should wake folks up about their digital privacy but N. Korea could have saved the effort and nobody would have watched (other than a few die-hard Rogan fans). Comparisons in other reviews to actually funny flicks such as Pineapple Express are simply laughable. More than I can say for this film.