I Watch Movies : Silver Linings Playbook
Jan. 10th, 2013 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Damn, I should have posted this yesterday like i planned to. instead, it seems like I am Oscar bandwagonning, when clearly I am ahead of the curve.
So, I had a few thoughts going into this movie. Is it going to be the blockbuster-style Romantic Comedy that it was advertised as or was it going to be a quirky indie film as the credits (director and screenplay David O Russell) would suggest.
The other possibility is that it could be just a terrible movie (Unfortunately for Russell, the movie that he seems to be most linked with is I (heart) Huckabees and not The Fighter or Three Kings.
It is a good indie romantic comedy with a cast that suggests Big Budget (DeNiro, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles).
Bradley Cooper pulls off a sympathetic, but extremely troubled hero of the film.
Jennifer Lawrence has a strong performance as well, not that she needed it (she was the star of The Hunger Games), but it should impress Hollywood. Her role is one that Juliette Lewis would have played 15 or 20 years ago.
The film falls into a indie romantic comedy category. It works well because it feels so real. It's got a bit of a Requiem for a Dream vibe in that ist is a dysfunctional family tale (though certainly not quite Hubert Selby Jr territory).
It's not a laugh-all-the-way-through film, nor perhaps is it the this-is-an-instanct-classic movie as the Oscar nominations suggests.
It is a very solid little indie film and it's well worth watching.
As an aside, the one thing that this film apparently doesn't do well (which I can only take others' words for) is follow the book it is based on.
Indie film fans should be satisfied, and its unique that it should break through to a mainstream crowd after all.
So, I had a few thoughts going into this movie. Is it going to be the blockbuster-style Romantic Comedy that it was advertised as or was it going to be a quirky indie film as the credits (director and screenplay David O Russell) would suggest.
The other possibility is that it could be just a terrible movie (Unfortunately for Russell, the movie that he seems to be most linked with is I (heart) Huckabees and not The Fighter or Three Kings.
It is a good indie romantic comedy with a cast that suggests Big Budget (DeNiro, Chris Tucker, Julia Stiles).
Bradley Cooper pulls off a sympathetic, but extremely troubled hero of the film.
Jennifer Lawrence has a strong performance as well, not that she needed it (she was the star of The Hunger Games), but it should impress Hollywood. Her role is one that Juliette Lewis would have played 15 or 20 years ago.
The film falls into a indie romantic comedy category. It works well because it feels so real. It's got a bit of a Requiem for a Dream vibe in that ist is a dysfunctional family tale (though certainly not quite Hubert Selby Jr territory).
It's not a laugh-all-the-way-through film, nor perhaps is it the this-is-an-instanct-classic movie as the Oscar nominations suggests.
It is a very solid little indie film and it's well worth watching.
As an aside, the one thing that this film apparently doesn't do well (which I can only take others' words for) is follow the book it is based on.
Indie film fans should be satisfied, and its unique that it should break through to a mainstream crowd after all.
