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The Double

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The Double is an espionage, spy thriller that starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace. The premise of the film is a prominent senator in D.C gets killed and it looks suspiciously like the work of a Russian assassin that Richard Gere hunted for most of his career and was presumed dead. The story is pretty standard. Old guy comes out of retirement and has to work with new young buck blah blah blah. It’s pretty predictable and the one thing that might have taken the audience at least maybe a quarter if the movie to predict is given away in the trailer. Richard Gere is the Cassius. Turns out he has been hunting himself this entire time. WTF. Seriously. I watched the movie wondering what else is there to this since everything was given away already. There is one twist at the end of the movie but when it happened all I thought was “oh ok.” Nothing else. I was really indifferent about the movie until the part where *****SPOILER ALERT*****
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Drive

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Drive is a movie starring Ryan Gosling (The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love).  He plays a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. When one of the heist he drives in goes wrong, he finds out that a hit has been put out on him.  I saw this movie and I WAS NOT READY.  I went in thinking, “Ok, this is going to be a heist movie with some nice driving stunts a la Fast and the Furious.”  WRONG.  It turned out to be a pretty slow at the beginning, which was fine, but it left me wondering where exactly it was going.  Gosling was soo creepy to me in this movie.  He reminded me some of his character from Murder By Numbers. It was just weird seeing him this way since I just saw Crazy, Stupid, Love last month and he was just so delicious in that one. The movie itself when it finally got going about an hour into it got extremely violent and kind of went off the rails.  I liked the movie though.  The acting was good and it has a good cast (Carrie Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks).  If you are a fan of film noir, then you’ll like this movie.  It opens in theaters Sept 16.

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One Day

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I know this movie came out maybe 3 weeks ago but I hadn’t seen it.  I kind of wanted to see it because I like Anne Hathaway but I also didn’t want to because it just looked ok and I would have had to pay for it because there was never a screening for it.  Anyway I was dragged (just kidding) to go see this by some lovely, wonderful friends of mine and what started out as a clichéd chick flick left me feeling pissed off and bamboozled by the ending.

I had seen the trailer to this movie a million times in the past weeks leading up to its release and never did any trailer I saw allude to what was to come in the movie.  I thought I was going to have a lovely time with friends where we laugh at all the ridiculous things leading up until these two main characters get together (they ALWAYS get together) but by the end were in tears and angry (and not just at Anne Hathaway’s awful British accent).

I can’t say what happens in the movie but if you are going in expecting la dee da roses and rainbows brace yourself because this is definitely not a movie to watch when you want something light.  Overall I thought the movie was pretty good and typical, it’s just that the ending kind of killed the good feelings I had for it.

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Moneyball

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Moneyball is the new movie staring Brad Pitt, Johan Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and a whole lot of other people.  I saw this movie last night and didn’t even know it was about baseball (I clearly didn’t pay attention to the trailer). I’m not really a fan of the sport but I’ll say this movie was a good one.  Its about this guy named Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, who is the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, which was one of the poorest teams in baseball.  They didn’t have deep pockets and therefore couldn’t afford star players like the Yankees and other top teams could.  The movie is the story of how he tried to get turn his cheap team into a winning one  using an unconventional method with the help of Peter Brand, played by Jonah Hill.

I haven’t really liked a movie with Brad Pitt since Inglorious Basterds. Granted I haven’t seen the last movie he was in, Tree of Life, but that movie just didn’t make me want to see it and you know I’ll watch anything. The movie had a kind of Jerry Maguire feel to it but not much.  The movie is written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, Social Network) and its got a nice cast with some good acting and a couple of good laughs. What else can you ask for in a movie.

Check out it out September 23