The movies you loved as a kid sometimes turn out to be
classics (i.e. Back to the Future and
Star Wars) while others, it turns
out, were really just not very good. Ah, the undiscerning view from a child’s
perspective. When you’re a kid, a movie is good or not because it has
excitement, adventures, romance, and comedy. For some adults I guess that never
changes. Before Robert Zemeckis directed Back
to the Future, he had a big commercial success in Romancing the Stone, a sort of Raiders
of the Lost Ark knock-off starring Kathleen Turner as a dowdy romance
novelist and Michael Douglas as a roughneck who saves her in the jungles of
Colombia.
A blog mostly dedicated to cinema (including both new and old film reviews; commentary; and as the URL suggests - movie lists, although it has been lacking in this area to be honest), but on occasion touching on other areas of personal interest to me.
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Southpaw Movie Review
Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw
is a little chaotically scripted by Kurt Sutter with plot points that are
occasionally unbelievable, nonsensical, or irrelevant, but it is Fuqua’s most
restrained directing effort I can recall and contains enough moral uplift that
it just crosses the line of what’s worth watching as a minor diversion.
Jake Gyllenhaal is impressive as Billy Hope, the light
heavyweight champion of the world. Hope (and Gyllenhaal by extension) is
physically imposing with a ripped torso and biceps. He has an anger control
problem that remains mostly confined to the ring. So that he garners our
sympathies, he’s got a beautiful wife, Maureen (Rachel McAdams), and daughter,
both of whom he adores and dotes on. Maureen doesn’t want him to keep fighting
because his style allows him to endure punch after punch until he’s angry
enough to pummel his opponent. His manager (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) wants him
to sign a three fight deal.
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