Have you ever listened to a soundtrack before seeing a movie? Well, I did that with this movie and completely fell in love with it and came to memorize and sing the songs whenever I could. So, could the movie be as great as the soundtrack for it? Would the performances match the quality of the songs?
When this movie first came onto the screen, it got lost in the shuffle with The Prestige and all of the big name actors and hype it received, so did it really get the full audience it deserved? Would it prove to be more magical than its competitor?
Over the weekend I was able to watch “Road to Perdition” with Tom Hanks for the first time and I was wonderfully taken away by the film. This film painted a beautiful yet haunting picture of the Father and Son dynamic. I hadn’t ever seen it because people talked about it being hard to see Tom Hanks as a “bad guy” and how that affected their view of the movie. After his performance, he definitely moved up to my Top 5 Favorite Actors List…
From the director of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” comes this beautifully haunting tale of what happens when your dissatisfaction of life leads you to live in your dreams and engage the waking world into them. This visual fancy of imagination and fantasy lead me right in with its raw emotional characters and down-to-earth love story…
Les Miserables is a movie that I have known about for a long time but never wanted to see. I couldn’t properly pronounce the name and knowing that it is a musical and a book didn’t really help my wanting to see the movie. It has always been a movie that never interested or excited me…boy was I wrong.
107 minutes of probably one of the saddest and most depressing movies I have ever seen…followed by 10 minutes of pure joy and satisfaction that made all of the 107 minutes worth it. Will Smith delivers, yet again, one of his defining performances in this heartfelt story about a Dad’s total and desperate pursuit of happiness for him and his son, played by Will Smith’s real life son Jaden.
“The best movie of 2008″ is the best way to describe this eerie, creepy, wonderful and beautiful tale of greed and lust set back in the dusty West Texas days of the oil rush. When the movie ended and the credits began to roll onto the screen, I sat there motionless and silent and tried to recover and digest all of the thoughts and wildness that was circling in my mind…
