There. More of the cutting edge movie review synopsis you have come to expect from Calmixx.
Seriously though, this movie was pretty cute. Eva Longoria is obnoxious and just a terrible actress in my opinion, – she’s not even that good looking is she?
But Lake Bell – holy crap is she funny.
That Paul Rudd guy is in there too, doing the Paul Rudd thing just like every other Paul Rudd role he’s had – and Jason Biggs (The Pie guy) is there too. What the hell happened to him? Didn’t you expect him to be a bigger star by now?
Anyway, it’s not a bad flick. And Lake Bell is very funny. And hot. Very hot.
On the one hand, they abosolutely NAILED New York City. Many of the scenes were so close to the real thing, you would swear it was shot on location.
I like the story; a Doctor creates a virus that destroys cancer, but it mutates into a lethal virus that tears through the population leaving it’s victims in a sunlight intollerant rabies like rage. Will Smith is naturally immune and the only survivor in Manhattan trying to find a cure . . .
Will Smith is probably the best he has ever been in this, spending much of the movie reminicesent of Tom Hanks in Castaway with only a Dog to act with.
I really was enjoying this movie, until I started thinking about it.
Why would they spend millions of dollars to get the set perfect and then use the same CGI model for EVERY SINGLE VICTIM.
Hey, the first time I saw the “zombie like” infected human, I was impressed and startled. It was excellent – but then I saw the next one – and IT WAS THE EXCAT SAME MODEL. And the next one – SAME MODEL. And a complete group of them – SAME MODEL. WTF.
Did they run out of money?
Why would all of the victims look exactly the same? They all even had the same wardrobe.
Just ruined the whole thing for me.
Whatever.
Worth time in your Netflix queue if only for Will Smith and the incredible work on the NYC sets.
“Things we lost in the Fire” stopped spinning in my DVD player about 5 minutes ago. It was a train wreck.
I don’t mean train wreck in the “bad movie” sense. I mean it in the sincere, “I wish I could have looked away and not seen this because it was hard to watch but it was a damn train wreck so I had to . . .” sense. Comprende?
So this is a very good movie but I am not sure why.
It’s very sad.
The actors are very believable all the way around.
Halle Berry is excellent in it, but really the only time she is ever bad is when she gets withing 30 feet of a comic book character. Benicio Del Toro is very much on the money as a sad heroin addict whom everyone wishes was David Duchovney and David Duchovney plays the kind of guy you would really miss if he was killed breaking up a domestic dispute outside a Cold Stone Creamery.
So in short conclusion, I like this movie but it is depressing and I don’t really feel any better for having seen it.
This movie was very good, but I just can’t help but feel that I’ve seen it like 4 times already.
Once with Michelle Pfeifer and Coolio, once on the Women’s Entertainment Network and at least twice on Lifetime. (Don’t judge me.)
That being said, it was very good though extremely familiar.
No big surprises here except for the inclusion of Patrick Dempsey as Hillary Swank’s extremely “human” and flawed husband.
It was genuinely touching at parts.
The evil school administrator seemed a little over the top for such a “real” story and as she was played by the woman who faced off against Harry Potter in his last movie I half expected her to turn Hillary Swank into a toad.
See what I did with the headline there? Sahara, desert, dry . . . HAHAHAHAHA. I am very clever sometimes. “ahem”
I expected NOTHING from this movie and I was very surprised at how good it was. The whole thing had that Raider’s of the Lost Ark vibe, but not in a “This is a rip off of Raider’s of the Lost Ark” kind of way.
Clever story, genuinely likeable leads and pretty funny as well. Good flick !
Seriously. That is what sticks with me about this movie the most. In fairness, I kept getting interupted by my stupid Blackberry (See how tech savvy I am) while I was watching it, but the Rock should find a Quiznos. He’s looking . . . thin very thin. Freakishly so because his shoulders are huge.
The movie was pretty good and being a Disney movie aimed at children you can imagine all the unforseen plot twists and turns. Also being a Disney movie aimed at children you can rest assured at least one parent is dead by flicks end. Gotta admire the Magic Kingdom, they find a formula that works and beat it underground.
I watched a movie with Alec Baldwin yesterday in which he played a bad father, so you know he had his full “acting” skills in effect.
It had this song in it that is just stuck in my head now.
It’s called “Love Song” by Sara somebody or another (if you want her name check a MUSIC blog) Anyway, I’m afraid I may die from this so I wanted to be sure there was evidence of cause of death.
If it won’t play for you, you (and your sanity) win.
The movie was Suburban Girl and it was pretty good. Not terribly masculine, but not a waste of time.
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