Eric
and I both agree about this movie – it was great! I can’t say enough about this movie. It was enthralling and very touching and I
would watch it again.
The Judge
Posted by
Eric
WE
LOVED THIS MOVIE! It was very
powerful. There were so many storylines
that all tied together without being complicated and were so full of depth. Robert Downey Jr. plays Hank Palmer, a big
city lawyer who has disconnected from his family that returns home for his
mother’s funeral. After having as much
of his family as he can handle and is ready to leave, Hank gets a call that his
father, played by Robert Duvall, is being charged with a murder. The interesting twist is that his dad had
been this town’s judge for many years and is now going on trial – and
eventually is represented by his own son, even though they have a very rocky
relationship. This movie was so much
more than just a murder trial. It was
about family and their connections, right and wrong, living in the past,
looking to the future, forgiveness, life and everything in between. I connected with many different parts of this
film and felt completely worn out after watching it. It was great!!!
Gone Girl
Posted by
Eric
This
movie wound up getting pretty twisted – much more than I was expecting. Ben Affleck plays a man who comes home on his
anniversary and finds his wife is missing.
The longer the story goes on, the more he starts being looked at as a
suspect in her disappearance, and possible murder! How do you prove you didn’t do something? Especially when the facts and clues all start
pointing toward you, no matter what you say or do.
How honest is he being? Before long, it becomes a huge media circus that gets out of control and
makes finding the truth even harder. This
film made me think about how much we really don’t know about people – only what
they “want” us to know. Also, what
lengths people will go to just to protect themselves, no matter how much it
hurts others. There are a lot of
different angles to look at this story, and I can’t seem to stop thinking about
all of them!
Million Dollar Arm
Posted by
Eric
A sports agent,
played by Jon Hamm of Mad Men, is on the verge of losing
his business and comes up with the “crazy” idea of getting attention and
publicity by going to India and recruiting locals to try out for professional
baseball in the United States. I was
thinking that was pretty much what the movie was going to be, but it was more
about what happened AFTER they had been selected. They had never picked up a baseball in their
lives, so you know training them won’t be easy, but the story became more about
everything else they were dealing with having never been out of India, missing
their families and life there along with being thrown into Los Angeles and
American culture. I liked seeing the
main character transform from someone who only cared about himself and has
always been about the bottom line into someone that actually cared about other people
and doing what’s right instead of money and business. It’s all based on a true story and was one of
the better sports movies I’ve seen in a long time.
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