Originally posted by
Jizzelbin
I was recommended *Maleficent* last week -- decided it wasn't for me. I relented and put *Guardians of the Galaxy* on the nurd chopping block, though.
What *was* for me:
*Hot Shots*
*Hot Shots Part Deux* (by far the superior of the two -- actually pretty damned funny)
*A History of Violence*
*Spider*, crap-fest.
*Crash* (I saw it soon after it came out, meh, but now I think it's one of the better movies of that period, and makes a nice diptych with *Magnificent Ambersons*, two movies which dwell at length on the miserable sickness of automobile kulchur).
*Focus* -- I don't understand the enemies among some critics this picture apparently has made. I've seen a shit-load of crappy grifter-conman-gambling movies, and this isn't even close to being as bad as *House of Games* or...whatever that movie was with the guy from *Croupier* and Denzel, not to mention all of the made-for-TV-level garbage like *Heist* or *Poolhall Junkies* or *High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story* or 99% of the shit that those Coen morons make on the toilet.
Best quote from *Focus* -- "Put some clothes on, there are Australians here. There's a reason they were all shipped down there." Also, "Drink some cement and man up."