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.

Friday, July 20, 2012

To Rome With Love

Deb 2       Me 4

After the success of Midnight in Paris I couldn't help but be optimistic about this one. I'd sworn off Woody Allen movies for a long time, then I got to thinking this might be a new niche for the old boy, travelogues. I've never been to modern Rome or had much desire to go there (unless it was with a historian). I hoped this might stir the travel pot a bit. There were a few landmark shots, some of them in the background and a bit out of focus. It really could have been shot on any sound stage in the world. Woody can still generate some funny and his insights to the social traits of metropolitan Americans is uncanny. There's some promising casting here, the ubiquitous Alec Baldwin plays a weird Twilight Zone conscience for the guy from the Social Network. Roberto Benigni can be a treat, but here his character is very unsatisfying. It was more of a train wreck than I'd hoped, but the fact that I rated it higher than Deb and the folks we went with helped convince me that I'm pretty done with Woody for a while.
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