Get on Up
Takes non-linear story telling to all new heights. The scenes are just scattered around for no reason. Not to suggest that if it was edited correctly it would actually be a good movie. Pulseless.
Chef
This movie takes place in some upbeat dreamworld, where Scarlett Johansson and some spanish supermodel want Jon Favreau, and then he gets a food truck and becomes a millionare. But for some unexplainable reason it's actually an enjoyable flick.
Life Itself
This movie should be called Death Itself, because it's mostly about Roger succumbing to severe cancer. I think a lot of us here have a lot in common with this guy, who wasted most of his life watching movies and writing what he thought about them. I was expecting something brilliant, a documentary that validated all of this time I've spent watching movies. Instead we get this. Not terrible, but it's subject deserves much better.
Jodorowsky's Dune
An outrageous story about a ridiculous filmmaker filled with enormous passion for movie making. Just seeing glimpses of Jodorowsky's films made me break down in a laughing fit. His version of Dune belongs next to the two movies below, which were also unrealistically ambitious.
Boyhood
Somehow it never draws attention to it's spectacular gimmick, but what makes
Boyhood worthwhile is some of Linklater's best writing. Although I did enjoy the first half where he's a little kid much more than the rest of it. I felt as the boy got older, I related to him less and less.
Apocalypse Now
Wasn't really planning on watching the whole thing, but 20 minutes in I was completely sucked back in. Although I've always admired Apocalypse Now, I never understood how evil
Martin Sheen's character was until this viewing. I also didn't remember the bizarre synthesizer score, which lends a giant hand in shaping the nightmarish landscape the journey inhibits.There are a lot of things I didn't understand about this movie 2 or 3 years back and some things I still don't.
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