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Bad Moms (2016)
do not bother. Bad movie with bad performances
I rented this movie online because my wife wanted to watch it. I thought that maybe she could identify with some of the situations and the jokes. She likes these chick-buddy movies and we both liked the hangover series movies so we thought we would give it a shot while maybe we did get a few laughs out of it. its not a bad idea for a movie, but this is just not well done. Its not funny, and it feels over-long. the plot is tired and insanely droll and predictable. There are also several plot holes that are so obvious they just take you out of the moment. this movie is not even worth the $4.99 rental fee. Mila Kunis and Christina Applegate are the more memorable characters by a long shot, but still definitely skip it. Sometime movies that are really just not performed or written very well are still kind of worth a couple of chuckles, and I think this one probably had a couple of those moments in it, but overall its definitely a stinker.
The Awful Truth (1937)
Excellent Movie, A real sleeper
I grudgingly watched this movie at my fiancé's request. But I really enjoyed it wholeheartedly and I laughed out loud at least a dozen time. In addition to being very clever and funny, the story was interesting and heartwarming. Cary Grant player Jerry Warriner, am man to whom we are introduced while he is in a tanning bed to help provide the alibi that he was on vacation in Florida. We never find out what he was 'really' doing but it was probably naughty. He returns home to an empty house early in the morning. He doesn't know where his wife is and then she returns in a full evening gown with a handsome "continental" man. It sounds dramatic, but its actually very very funny. I enjoyed seeing the double entendres and the innuendos that they were forced (by convention) to use in 1937. I am going to buy this movie and watch it repeatedly, just as I watch "The Apartment" and "Some Like it Hot"
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
surprisingly entertaining western without gunplay.
I was moderately interested in the movie as it started. Henry Fonda play a traveler on his way to purchase a 40 acre farm. At a stop in the small town of Laredo, TX, he is overcome by his gambling addiction and somehow gets into the biggest poker game in the territory. Then he has a heart attack and his wife has to finish the game for him. You discover at the end that the whole thing was a ruse to "win" the money from the other players by bluffing.
The movie was fun for me up until the point that we discovered it was a ruse. Then it was just overlong and sappy. There is a short scene in which the meanest poker player is seemingly overcome with admiration for the wife and he cancels his daughters wedding because of it.... huh? I just didn't get that at all. Whats the message there?
Also there are huge plot holes that are hard to ignore. I can usually overlook them, but these were huge. e.g. How could Meredith (Henry Fonda) know he was going to be allowed to watch then actually play in the Poker game when it was very private and exclusive. That's a huge assumption. there are plenty more.
However, the character interaction is intriguing and the dialogue is pretty good. A fun movie that I might get from netflix, but I wouldn't buy it for sure.