It's me again gang, ready to drop a little knowledge on you all about the latest movies that I have seen. It's been a little bit but I have recently been busy getting my body used to the graveyard shift and now that I have it's movie review time.
Okay, so since it's taken me a little while to give you all a movie review I have decided as a special treat that I'm going to give you all two for the price of one. So with that let me start this whole thing off with my review of IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY. I guess I should preface this review by saying that when after I saw this movie I wanted to come home and write about it right away but I didn't quite know where it fit. I knew I really liked it just as soon as I watched it, but I needed a little bit of time to let it wash over me. And now that it has I can 100 percent say that I really really like this movie.
The best way I could describe this movie is by simply saying it is a movie written for not only my generation but that just a bit younger that me. It's hard for me to completely describe what genre I would put this movie in but if I had to I would say it is a sort of hybrid coming of age dramedy. It centers around a kid that comes from a very affluent family that has had everything that he could ever need in life but for some reason everything is getting to him and he is thinking about killing himself. So he checks himself in the adult mental ward in the hospital where he meets all different kinds of characters on his way to realizing and finding himself.
So who is in this movie? Well Keir Gilchrist plays the title character of Craig and for being such a young actor he really gives a good turn as this slightly awkward kid bumbling around in the mental ward trying to find himself. Emma Roberts plays the lovely Noelle who is another kid in the adult mental word who is Craig's love interest. I thought that she was great in the movie. The only problem that I found with her role is that there wasn't more of it. She comes from such a great pedigree and I can tell that she is going to be a force. The way she plays her role is subtle but it really leaves a lasting impression. And now on to the real star of this movie and that is Mr. Zach Galifianakis, playing the role of Bobby, a dad that is trying to make it out of this darkness that he has been in so that he can be there for his kid. I really like Galifianakis but after this movie I love him. Finally he gets to play a real person and not just a character which I feel that he does in most movies. Bobby is a really funny guy but he has depth. You are not just sitting there waiting for the next one liner to be thrown out there, he is real and you can see the pain that he is struggling through.
This is a movie that really flew under the radar and that is just too bad. I really do wish that more movies like this were getting the due that movies like Twilight does. Shame on all of you. Grow up, and go see this movie.
ME AND ORSON WELLES
What can I say about this movie besides, FFFFFUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK! I mean this is everything that a movie should be. To say that I love this movie is an understatement. RICHARD LINKLATER is an absolute god. He is one of my favorite directors working today. I mean the guy just knows how to tell a story, from DAZED AND CONFUSED to BEFORE SUNRISE to BEFORE SUNSET. I just love this man's work. This movie is just so damn fun I love it. I watched this the other morning after working all night long, and this movie kept me up and entertained the entire hour and forty eight minutes of its run time. The movie is about a young boy who is a bit of a dreamer and is aspiring to be an actor in 1937 and he lands a role in "Julius Caesar" that is directed by a young Orson Welles.
So who is in this movie? The title role of Richard is played by ZAC EFRON. I hate to admit this but this kid I is really going to be something I think. He is already a heart throb but the thing that is so great about this kid is the fact that he really is picking out smart roles to do. I sure there have been a number of roles thrown his way to try and cash in on the whole High School Musical success, but it appears that he has it in his head to really do good movies and I have to applaud him for that. CLAIRE DANES plays the lovely Sonja, who is the girl that is loved by everybody in the playhouse and young Richard eventually falls for her. She does a great job in the role, because she in not just this absolutely like able character, she is sort of this hot ice queen type that has is hard working yes but she really is driven by ambition and the fact that she is beautiful she uses it to her advantage. Then there is CHRISTIAN MCKAY who plays Orson Welles. To say that he is phenomenal in the movie would be an understatement. I don't know who this guy is at all but to play such an iconic role such as Orson Welles and do it this well really is something great. I mean this guy nails every single scene that he is in and it just seems effortless. I applaud you sir, somebody please cast this guy in something else.
This movie truly does have everything that a movie should have. It is fun and funny, but it is also serious and a little bittersweet. It is going to make you smile and then at times it is going to feel like it crushes you I am absolutely in love with it. The only other movie that I have enjoyed this much this year was the little known movie by the name of FLIPPED. I mean there is a great scene in the beginning of this movie when Richard is just getting used to the playhouse and they are all sitting around and him and two guys talk to him about the quadruple space which is just great. For those of you that don't know what it is, it is when two characters in a book are about to have sex the book with talk about a long hard embrace and then there is a quadruple space and it reads the next morning the sun is up and shining bright. They basically tell him that the best things in life happen in the quadruple space. I encourage everybody to go out and see this movie as soon as possible. This is a great movie and if you don't see it you should be kicked in the nuts, Boom!!!!
Like always, don't start nothin' , won't be nothin'
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