Vince Vaughn returns with yet another holiday themed movie this season. And good news - it's better than
Fred Claus. As the couple who continually avoid family holiday festivities Brad and Kate (Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon) are forced to visit their families for Christmas when their flight to Fiji is cancelled. As they travel to each house and meet one another's family, they soon realize that maybe they don't know each other as well as they think they do. The film is pretty funny and there are some good laughs, but I think it plays it a little safe. Vaughn and Witherspoon are pretty cute together although I think Witherspoon is underused.
And I definitely think they could have done more with the visual gag of their obvious height difference. But
overall
Four Christmases is a fun time.
This is a great time of the year for movies - mainly because it's when all of the good ones come out.
Milk is definitely one of the good ones. Set mostly in San Francisco during the '70's Sean Penn portrays Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office. What I really liked about this film was that it almost felt like a documentary. Director Gus Van Sant intertwined old news footage with his own footage so well that at times you couldn't tell if what you were watching was shot in the '70's or just a few months ago - a feat also acccomplished by the great production design and set decorating. There's no doubt Penn is on his way to his fifth Oscar nomination for this performance. And deservedly so. His portrayal of Milk is incredibly inspirational and uplifting, to say the least. His ideas and speeches were so passionate and exhilirating you wanted to get up out of your seat and march right beside him.
Vince Vaughn returns with yet another holiday themed movie this season. And good news - it's better than Fred Claus. As the couple who continually avoid family holiday festivities Brad and Kate (Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon) are forced to visit their families for Christmas when their flight to Fiji is cancelled. As they travel to each house and meet one another's family, they soon realize that maybe they don't know each other as well as they think they do. The film is pretty funny and there are some good laughs, but I think it plays it a little safe. Vaughn and Witherspoon are pretty cute together although I think Witherspoon is underused. And I definitely think they could have done more with the visual gag of their obvious height difference. But overall Four Christmases is a fun time.
This is a great time of the year for movies - mainly because it's when all of the good ones come out. Milk is definitely one of the good ones. Set mostly in San Francisco during the '70's Sean Penn portrays Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office. What I really liked about this film was that it almost felt like a documentary. Director Gus Van Sant intertwined old news footage with his own footage so well that at times you couldn't tell if what you were watching was shot in the '70's or just a few months ago - a feat also acccomplished by the great production design and set decorating. There's no doubt Penn is on his way to his fifth Oscar nomination for this performance. And deservedly so. His portrayal of Milk is incredibly inspirational and uplifting, to say the least. His ideas and speeches were so passionate and exhilirating you wanted to get up out of your seat and march right beside him.
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Hey...back off about Jane's hair! We're working on it geez!!
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