The Tourist

The scenery is the most amazing thing about this movie.  I've never been to Europe and looking at the scenery during the movie kept me captivated the whole time. 


I have read other reviews on this movie and it hasn't been loved by many, in my opinion I enjoyed it.  My husband said that he picked the ending a mile off but I must have been too short sighted or distracted because I didn't see it and thought it was a nice little surprise.


I'm more than certain that it isn't the best thing I've seen. I really don't get the fascination with Jolie, I could be a jealous female but I just don't see it, big lips, skinny and brown hair she is beautiful I'll give her that but I wouldn't say she is worth all the commotion of sexiest person on earth!  Depp was good but the relationship between him and Jolie didn't work for me, it was all  a bit weird.


Overall, it was an ok movie and although I wouldn't watch it again it was fine to sit through. I'll give it a 3.


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M x

Date Night

I'd only recommend this movie as one of those movies that you watch on a Friday night when there isn't anything else on and you don't really feel like thinking much... 


I don't think I really like Steve Carell... I'm not sure what it is but I think I don't like the way he speaks or something.  


This movie was nothing special, it had few funny moments and I found myself struggling to keep my eyes open which is unusual for me especially watching a movie. It's a blend of Action and Comedy.  I had a few laughs out loud, but didn't really have high expectations.  The best bit was the shirt-less Mark Wahlberg....


It was OK so I'll give it 3


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M x

Inception

Inception Blu-Ray Cover

I missed this one at the movies but was happy to see that it came with not only a Blu-Ray disk but a DVD AND a Digital copy (which is good for the ipod but also exciting now that we have an Apple TV contraption from Santa). 


The thing that I loved about this movie was that it had me thinking about my own dreams and how real they can be, the thing I didn't like was the amount of times I thought "Huh?". One gaping hole in particular for me was when the car started falling in the first dream, but gravity was maintained in the third dream or the Snow dream, how is that possible? 


I found the ending very intriguing and the concept that a guy who was so obsessed by reality didn't even wait to check that it was in fact reality before running to his children because he hadn't seen them in so long. Was it reality or just another dream, I guess we'll never know but do we really care if we are happy with what it provides?


From M I'll give it a 4 for making me think hard.

Love & Other Drugs

Love & Other Drugs Poster

Within the first 10 to 15 minutes of the movie starting I was sitting there thinking, Here we go again, another Romantic comedy for me to go home and wish my man was more perfect than he is because he doesn't have a group of writers writing his lines for him BUT I was surprised to discover that this movie was a little more than that.


Sure the movie was the typical plot of a Boy who is a player, meets a girl, they have crazy sex, fall for each other, start an exclusive relationship, have highs and lows and then break up to discover they can not be without each other... Whoops did I spoil the ending? But seriously you know the one, we've all seen at least one before. Well surprisingly, this one actually had another layer, the girl was also a player and after crazy sex too but because she has an illness, that she didn't want to force upon any companion. This took the movie to explore the levels of complexity that a relationship reaches when an illness is involved and the level of commitment that is required. 


I found the career of Jake Gyllenhaal's character interesting as the drug sales rep doing all he can to push his brand onto doctors. There were some passionate love scenes and a heap of nudity which at some stages had me thinking that this relationship was only about the sex but there was a point that it changed. The brother was on the edge of being a bit disturbing for me and a few scenes could have been left out but I think showed the change in Gyllenhaal's character.


From m it can have a 3