Crazy, Stupid, Love
Directed by : Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570728/
I am wildly unhappy, and I am trying to buy it, and it's not working.
Cal (Steve Carell), middle aged man, is taken by a surprise when his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) at restaurant suddenly asks for divorce and also tells him she slept with someone named David Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon). Cal's son Robbie (Jonah Bobo), who is 13 yrs old has feelings for the 17yr old babysitter Jessica (Analeigh Tipton) who herself has a crush on Cal. And then Cal meets Jacob (Ryan Gosling) at a bar learning how easy its for Jacob to pickup girls. The premise makes a clear case of many comical moments and most of them do land pretty well. It was fun watching Jacob teach Cal with those routine slaps at cheeks. The teacher-Cal scene at bar followed by the house and then meeting at school was easily my favourite and the one where Cal talks to Emily on phone while watching her secretly outside the garden. I almost failed to identify Emma Stone (plays Hannah), whose scenes with Jacob are ofcourse very romantic including the dirty dancing moment. Robbie's love for Jessica and things he tries to do to win her over are fun and cute at same time. All the big stars, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone give in very good performances yet somehow this movie is nothing more than a timepass flick, maybe too many subplots is the issue, specially David-Emily scenes and Jessica's crush for Cal that I found boring. A light-hearted fun movie that despite the flaws I won't mind watching again on T.V.
My Rating : 6.5/10
Rosemary's Baby
Directed by : Roman Polanski
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/
Oh, God!
God is dead! Satan lives!
Spoilers ahead..
Set in 1965, a couple, Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) move into a fancy looking apartment called Bramford despite been told by their friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) that the house has had its share of deaths in past. The lullaby sung by Rosemary itself at start of movie sets up good mood (sung by Rosemary herself) as we slowly learn about the neighbours living in the same flat with most focus on an old couple, Minnie Castevet (Ruth Gordon) and Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer). For me, what worked was the performances of the cast, the acting is really good specially Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon. But the going is very slow as the narrative takes half of the film to reach the stage when Rosemary is pregnant, and on the way we get one dreamy very creepy rape scene. This scene, sudden death of girl living with Minnie through window jump suicide and the over-friendly attitude of Minnie is enough to believe she and her husband have some evil motive in their mind, which is further strengthened with the vitamin drinks provided by her daily that includes some tannis root. Only twist if I can call it that, comes when we learn Dr Hill (Charles Grodin) and Guy Woodhouse were involved too. As a horror movie, there's almost next to none scare sequences, even the atmospheric tension isn't that high to my liking. Then the witch angle comes when only 30 mins of movie is left, and it feels so under-utilised in the narrative as for me they took way too much time to reach here including some un-necessary repetitive scenes.The climax is pretty ordinary too. As a psychological thriller, Rosemary's Baby is still a decent watch but sorry its not a great horror or even a classic movie in any sense for me. So, after Repulsion, that's second Polanski horror movie in a row that didn't click for me as it does for other people.
My Rating : 5.5/10
Directed by : Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570728/
I am wildly unhappy, and I am trying to buy it, and it's not working.
Cal (Steve Carell), middle aged man, is taken by a surprise when his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) at restaurant suddenly asks for divorce and also tells him she slept with someone named David Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon). Cal's son Robbie (Jonah Bobo), who is 13 yrs old has feelings for the 17yr old babysitter Jessica (Analeigh Tipton) who herself has a crush on Cal. And then Cal meets Jacob (Ryan Gosling) at a bar learning how easy its for Jacob to pickup girls. The premise makes a clear case of many comical moments and most of them do land pretty well. It was fun watching Jacob teach Cal with those routine slaps at cheeks. The teacher-Cal scene at bar followed by the house and then meeting at school was easily my favourite and the one where Cal talks to Emily on phone while watching her secretly outside the garden. I almost failed to identify Emma Stone (plays Hannah), whose scenes with Jacob are ofcourse very romantic including the dirty dancing moment. Robbie's love for Jessica and things he tries to do to win her over are fun and cute at same time. All the big stars, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone give in very good performances yet somehow this movie is nothing more than a timepass flick, maybe too many subplots is the issue, specially David-Emily scenes and Jessica's crush for Cal that I found boring. A light-hearted fun movie that despite the flaws I won't mind watching again on T.V.
My Rating : 6.5/10
Rosemary's Baby
Directed by : Roman Polanski
Imdb link -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/
Oh, God!
God is dead! Satan lives!
Spoilers ahead..
Set in 1965, a couple, Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) move into a fancy looking apartment called Bramford despite been told by their friend Hutch (Maurice Evans) that the house has had its share of deaths in past. The lullaby sung by Rosemary itself at start of movie sets up good mood (sung by Rosemary herself) as we slowly learn about the neighbours living in the same flat with most focus on an old couple, Minnie Castevet (Ruth Gordon) and Roman Castevet (Sidney Blackmer). For me, what worked was the performances of the cast, the acting is really good specially Mia Farrow and Ruth Gordon. But the going is very slow as the narrative takes half of the film to reach the stage when Rosemary is pregnant, and on the way we get one dreamy very creepy rape scene. This scene, sudden death of girl living with Minnie through window jump suicide and the over-friendly attitude of Minnie is enough to believe she and her husband have some evil motive in their mind, which is further strengthened with the vitamin drinks provided by her daily that includes some tannis root. Only twist if I can call it that, comes when we learn Dr Hill (Charles Grodin) and Guy Woodhouse were involved too. As a horror movie, there's almost next to none scare sequences, even the atmospheric tension isn't that high to my liking. Then the witch angle comes when only 30 mins of movie is left, and it feels so under-utilised in the narrative as for me they took way too much time to reach here including some un-necessary repetitive scenes.The climax is pretty ordinary too. As a psychological thriller, Rosemary's Baby is still a decent watch but sorry its not a great horror or even a classic movie in any sense for me. So, after Repulsion, that's second Polanski horror movie in a row that didn't click for me as it does for other people.
My Rating : 5.5/10
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