MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Win Win

Deb 10 Me 10

I don’t know why my shortest reviews seem to be reserved for the best movies. I had no idea what to expect with this thing. Thought it might be one of those feel good sports movies or something, the trailers weren’t really that inviting. It was sort of a throw your hands up in the air and say, “Let’s just go see it”.

I liked the characters, their lot in life was effectively revealed and the story unfolded in a graceful way. Soon I really liked the people and was interested in what would happen next. This is where a lot of movies fail, the next thing that happens is often predictable. Here we had a few Hollywood coincidences but for the most part the story took an unseen path without looking like it was trying to be unpredictable. It was just good storytelling.

This was enhanced by some great acting, there’s a kid who is the central focus who really wins you over, and there’s some great comic moments that were sincere and just plain funny. We both dug this one and felt like it was time well spent.

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