Been on a bit of a movie binge of late - trying the Doug Loves Movies 365 movies in 365 days challenge... which I'm sure I won't get anywhere near once life starts up again tomorrow, but a few days of binge watching never killed anyone.
In the meantime, since I'm going to be doing it mostly with Netflix, figured I'd review the movies here. I have pretty broad tastes in flicks, so I'll try and call out why I liked or didn't like them...
Summary rankings (blank lines indicate tiers, see previous posts for reviews)Someone Marry Barry
Rapture-Palooza
Cottage Country
Romy and Michelle
Liberal Arts
Happy Christmas
14 movies in 13 days - thanks to a sick day...
Wolf of Wall Street
Awesome flick. 30-40 minutes too many knocked this down a few notches thanks to my short attention span.
Devil (Chris Messina)
Love Messina on Newsroom and Mindy Project. Nice little indy mystery/suspense flick.
Best Man Down (Tyler Lapine, Justin Long, Jess Weixler)
Best man dies after the reception. Newlyweds deal with the aftermath. Good story - was surprisingly engaging.
Spring Breakers (James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens)
If you have kids who forced you to watch Wizards of Waverly Place or High School Musical (or both), this is your payback. Thought it was just going to be T&A, but turned out the story was pretty good too.
Anchorman 2
Liked it better than the first one. But I only kinda liked the first one.
28 Hotel Rooms (Chris Mussina, Marin Ireland)
The story of a one night stand that turns into a multi-city relationship. Must have been inexpensive to make - there's almost no other cast and very little wardrobe. Nice character study.
An Invisible Sign (Jessica Alba, Chris Mussina, JK Simmons)
Had higher hopes for this one. Had a few good moments, but overall pretty slow.
Peter and Vandy (Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler)
Another relationship story that is told over time. I really wanted to like this one. Only this one is told in no particular order. Bad move. Bottom of my list so far.
Summary rankings (blank lines indicate tiers, see previous posts for reviews)
Someone Marry Barry
Rapture-Palooza
Wolf of Wall Street
Cottage Country
Devil
Best Man Down
Romy and Michelle
Spring Breakers (only on Prime)
Anchorman 2
Liberal Arts
28 Hotel Rooms
An Invisible Sign
Happy Christmas
Peter and Vandy