Archive for November, 2005

There have been any number of large epics that have come out in the last six years. I always look at the previews and think, “Hey, that looks pretty cool”. I am such a tool. I always fall for it too. Big epic scenes, love, lust, violence, I can’t turn off the guy in me. I don’t think I have seen one that I liked, and Oliver Stone isn’t really known for his movies in the top 50 all time or anything. Usually they are too long and over dramatic with these possessed characters that no one can really relate to, only observe and feel distanced from on the sidelines.

That is what this movie is about. Colin Farrell is pretty good, if I knew anything about Alexander, but I don’t really care. He is just out there, and Jolie, yeah, I think I like her much better as a sexy intelligent lead role like Mr. Mrs. Smith. Not an object, but as an actress with delivery. This is just about her being a psycho no it all mother to Farrell who always stays way too young, but you could care less to hear what she has to say. It is always mind games and furthering her own goals.

Even if you were into mythology, gods, and all that hoopla, which is something I always “didn’t get” in high school, this does some of that, but not like Troy. It demonstrates some how the belief and fear of gods and history played into the lives of these characters, but not too much. I can’t recommend this to anyone, I don’t know the type that would like this. Probably the same person that liked the other recent epics, but be ready for a long one with a unique vision that only Oliver Stone could create. He should maybe stick to football movies, but even then the old time bit actors who always play the same role like Deniro ruin it. It is like a buddy system or something in hollywood, who keeps giving these people money?

Me.

Most of the time, I can take or leave Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. More so Owen Wilson, and that is true with this movie about Wilson at least, without Vaughn, you couldn’t have this movie. Wilson will never be able to carry something. But, my review is not bad, but good. Great as a matter of a fact.

I was nervous about this movie because of my feelings on those two. But what a hilarious movie. This movie did not depend on whether you found the two of them funny, but was a lot about situations. For whatever reason, I keep thinking about Meet the Parents. There are hardly any similarities, maybe a little bit in how you just feel for the guys and the terrible situations they get into, into some girl’s parents house.

But from the buckshot in the butt, the gay artistic brother, and the super cliche but somehow different jock boyfriend that sleeps around, this was a good love story, and a little bit of a coming of age story for these two guys. They get to see themselves for what they are, and there is even a guest spot by Wil Ferrell, which always makes for some awkwardly crazy moment. In this case, Ferrell is a guy who picks up grieving women at funerals.

Funny, not as raunchy as I would have pictured, but take that with a grain of salt as I am numb to most of that. Not something my parents or sister would ever find funny, but if you like this cast in these type of situations, it is just a little bit funnier because it is about weddings and that is a little more of a grown up concept. Vince Vaughn’s girl, very believable as the perfect freaky match for him.