Twittreview: “Runner Runner” – Grade: 2.5 out of 5; Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) a Princeton Under-grad getting entwined into the world of an online poker empire run by Ivan Black (Ben Affleck). Flat script, paint by numbers plot, felt painfully long (ironic as it is a 91 min run time).
Movie Review – Trouble with the Curve
See the ball, hit the ball. A common phrase heard around baseball for years. See the ball…if you see the ball your mind is clear and able to process what’s happening around you. Hit the ball…with your mind clear you’re able to make contact, get a hit, take your base. See the ball, hit the ball. Seems simple enough. Yet this is where Trouble with the Curve misses the mark as it so badly wants to hit a Home Run at the bottom of the 9th, with the bases loaded, your team down by three runs, and you’re at the plate with a full count (3 balls, 2 strikes for those not in the know). When in fact it keeps hitting a foul ball early at bat and eventually when the hit happens, there’s no coming back from the deficit your team finds itself in.
Movie Review: In Time
Forget Logan’s Run, where the state kills you off at age 30 and you leave a pretty corpse. In the world of In Time, you stop aging at age 25. Not to shabby, right? Unfortunately, you’re dead by 26, unless you’re able to “earn” a longer life. Salaries, interest rates, food and shelter, all are measured out by seconds, minutes, hours…and for the wealthy that can afford it, months and years. (Suddenly my latte addiction seems unimportant. “Caffeine will take years off your life”, indeed.) So the wealthy can live forever, while the poor are reduced to living in ghettos and running everywhere to save what little time they have. And hey, wouldn’t you want to live forever if you looked like Justin Timberlake or Amanda Seyfried?
