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Rams (2020)
Perfect
I might wonder why I would choose to rent this movie. Well, partly because I had Amazon credits to use, but mostly because the available selection was rather pathetic. Plain bad movies. Or movies for which they wanted $20 to rent since you couldn't go see them in a theater.
Not only was Rams a wonderful movie in every respect, it was touching, entertaining, and without the boilerplate plot that we are forced to become accustomed to.
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Gory Crap
Not worth watching. Even for Bradley Cooper fans. Skip it.
Wander (2020)
I don't usually like Eckhart
But he did a good job in this one. Had to watch it twice to really understand it.
Boiler Room (2000)
Could be Vin Diesel's only good performance.
But Ribisi makes the movie. Good stuff all around.
Greenland (2020)
Selfish People Being Selfish
The answer to global catastrophe: just go someplace else. Leaves one wondering if they'll have enough toilet paper. Best quote (SPOILER): when the plane crashes into a mountain, the kid says "I don't want to fly anymore."
Paycheck (2003)
Interesting concept gets sappy
It started out well, then could decide how much humor to throw in. But tolerable until the end.
The Upside (2017)
I didn't watch the Intouchables
And I don't understand why a movie has to have some deep hidden meaning to be good. Yeah, there was a lot of absurd stereotypes about race and disability. But it was presented well. Just like anyone can't tell the same joke as a comic and get the same reaction. I'm not crazy about Hart or Cranston (other than in Breaking Bad). But Hart was thoroughly believable in his lack of false sympathy for a quadriplegic, as Cranston was for ignoring the assumptions about a black ex-convict. It provoked thought about suicidal ideation of a man who had everything but control of his limbs. Or the streetwise Hart reinstalling the joy in those fantasies that most could not afford but to Cranston had become meaningless without physical abilities to enjoy them with. Each shared what they did have with the other. Sometimes overlapping like Aretha singing opera, or smoking a joint relieving phantom pain or instilling appetite. All the while involving we audience in their escapades or rooting for their successes. Just as we are still capable of laughing at SNL portraying societal disappointment. Sometimes all the pieces fit without our trying to figure out why they shouldn't.