The headline says it all. Comedy took a bit to get going but I kept cracking up so it worked. Carell, Buschemi, and Carey have good jokes and Carey's physical humor is only as he can do it.
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4 Reviews
A great way to portray Mr. Rogers
25 November 2019
Beforehand I was wondering how Tom Hanks was going to pull it off because his voice is so different from Rogers', but by the end it didn't matter. And "A beautiful day in the Neighborhood is a biopic, but it isn't about Fred Rogers' life story--the story is Fred's impact on other people, summed up in Lloyd. A brilliant way to do it.
And with Hanks' ability to conjure emotion mixed with his portraying Mr. Rogers, it was like every time he opened his mouth he was trying to wrench every bit of emotion out of you. It was a plot line that was so simple and predictable but yet so profound. I've really never experienced anything quite like it. I never watched Mr. Rogers as a kid but I feel like I did now.
And with Hanks' ability to conjure emotion mixed with his portraying Mr. Rogers, it was like every time he opened his mouth he was trying to wrench every bit of emotion out of you. It was a plot line that was so simple and predictable but yet so profound. I've really never experienced anything quite like it. I never watched Mr. Rogers as a kid but I feel like I did now.
Labor Day
(2013)
Amazing movie
19 July 2014
Bobby Flay develops an unusually high testosterone level and breaks out of prison. Most hard-up woman in Mass. Meets up with him when her son Oedipus meets Flay in a store. There is no way to spoil it because you can guess the rest. It slowly devolves into a sequel, "The Convict of Madison County." They try to build tension everywhere, and it marginally works, but it was overcooked. The romance doesn't save it, she just seems neurotic. Brodin does a good job of playing Brolin. And Griffith does a good job playing a kid who is deathly afraid of puberty. From top to bottom, the plot, the cinematography, the plot--oops, said plot twice, but it was terrible--was one of the worst movies I've seen. Ever.
American Flyers
(1985)
A blast from the 1980s Coors Classic
1 August 2013
OK. not a cinematographic masterpiece, but there are some great nuggets from a lost period in American bike racing. The film came out in 1985, the year that Greg Lemond broke into the Tour de France and beat his teammate Bernard Hinaut, though The Badger got to win it (Lemond won his first the following year). And the Coors Classic was the best racing outside of Europe, with Team 7-eleven breaking into the continent. The Muzzin character with 7-11 was modeled directly after Alexi Grewal, who won gold in the 1984 Olympics and won the Bob Cook Memorial race up Mount Evans twice. He also had emotional/anger problems. The Soviet team was brought in after the cold war tensions and the Olympics, though they should have been a French team to make it accurate.
You might even see a banner in the first stage south of Boulder with a Denver TV station logo and "Coors Classic" that didn't quite get hidden.
A mushy movie, predictable turns, geographic mistakes in the footage, and some weak acting, but a good movie if you are in, or love, American road racing--and remember how it started in the Rockies.
You might even see a banner in the first stage south of Boulder with a Denver TV station logo and "Coors Classic" that didn't quite get hidden.
A mushy movie, predictable turns, geographic mistakes in the footage, and some weak acting, but a good movie if you are in, or love, American road racing--and remember how it started in the Rockies.
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