• Cinema Sound Off


    My good friend,KM Wilsher, and I are heading out toHarkins Theatres each month to watch a choice movie.

    We’ll let you know if it’s worth you spending your hard-earned money or not.

    CLICK HERE for our rating system

    Now…onto the movie.

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    Conviction

    Synopsis from IMDB:

    Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother’s (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.

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    My Review:

    Holy cow. Now, I first have to say, I’m not one to go to movies like this. I mean, I really like my supernatural, paranormal, crazy movies….not ones that are emotional, based on true stories, and too close to real life.

    I mean, I go to movies to escape the every day, right? But that’s just me.

    Anyway, we tried this movie–Conviction, which is based on a true story. Oh my word, it was good. First, the acting. Okay, I always knew Hilary Swank could act. I mean, I’ve seen a lot of her movies. She’s fantastic.

    I hope she gets nominated for something with Conviction. She totally deserves it. Her acting yanked me into each and every scene. My gut wrenched. I cried, laughed, growled in frustration…nearly every emotion she portrayed. She did a fantastic job.

    I first remember Sam Rockwell from Charlie’s Angels. Yeah, I’m sure he’d done others and you’re probably thinking, “Charlie’s Angels? Come on, Lynn. . . .” But it’s true. I loved him in that one. He was a wicked-good bad guy. I watched him over the years since that…he’s good. And he does this movie REALLY well. I got so ticked at him sometimes when he was doing dumb stuff, but still…that’s good, because that means he’s doing his job!

    Even while watching the trailer tears streamed down my face. The emotion between Swank and Rockwell was amazing. Loved it!

    I have to give this our highest rating:

    5 tickets: A must see. Buy a ticket for everyone.

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    Have you seen it? What’d you think?

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    Now, pop on over to KM’s blog and she what she thought of it.

     

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  • Cinema Sound Off


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    My good friend,KM Wilsher, and I are heading out toHarkins Theatres each month to watch a choice movie.

    We’ll let you know if it’s worth you spending your hard-earned money or not.

    CLICK HERE for our rating system

    Now…onto the movie.

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    Funny little story to start this off. We’d originally chosen Machete to watch and review. Less than FIVE minutes into the movie, we walked out. Couldn’t stomach it. I suffered from post traumatic flashbacks the rest of the day, too. Okay, really, I didn’t, but almost. It was that disturbing.

    So, the fantastic staff at Harkins Theatres let us go into a different movie and we chose Going the Distance.

    Let’s just say, we were batting zero on our movie choices that day, but at least we made it through Going the Distance.

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    Okay, onto the movie for REAL this time

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    Teaser from IMDB:

    A romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another.

    My Review:

    This was the second worst movie I’ve seen. I made it through the entire movie, but it’s the second worst because even after only five minutes of Machete, it wins that honor!

    Okay, sorry, tangent. I’m not here to talk about Machete.

    Going The Distance could have been way up on there on the best movie list had they not riddled the dialogue with more F-bombs than I could have tabulated with a freaking calculator.

    Seriously.

    Look, I totally understand the language thing–if it fits with the character. Heck, some of my characters swear in my novels. Lots of the novels I read, both published and unpublished, have swear words. But they fit the character and aren’t constant–as in every single sentence. You know? There’s a difference!

    There’s no faster way to ruin a movie in my eyes than with dialogue that makes everyone look like total idiots who can’t form a semi-intellectual sentences. Oh, and then top it off with random/lewd/gross sex jokes and scenes–that just made the movie even more pathetic in my eyes.

    Some of the writing was rather witty, Drew Barrymore looked fantastic, but overall, I was put off within the first thirty minutes of the movie.

    I mean, come on, they had a story line that could have carried the entire movie, they didn’t need to resort to such vulgar and ridiculous stuff–But they did.

    Sorry, guys…you get my lowest rating

    1 ticket -Don’t go see it. Give your ticket away

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    Did you guys see this? What’d you think?

    Now run on over toKM Wilsher’s blog and see what she thinks of it!