Piotzar's stats
- Review count27
- Helpfulness votes7
- First reviewOctober 19, 2009
- Last reviewJuly 14, 2013
- Featured reviews0
- Average rating3.6
Overall rating
5
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5
So much better than the previews
PostedJuly 14, 2013
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
5
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5
Special Effects
5
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5
Art Direction
5
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5
Acting
5
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5
Story
5
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5
Camerawork
5
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5
From the previews I expected a total special effects movie, with no redeeming features. Instead it turns out to have plot, actors, comedy. All in all this and Despicable Me2 are by far the best summer movies out this year. Miles ahead of Superman, the Lone Ranger, maybe even Ironman3. I think all ages will enjoy it. You can even suspend your disappointment that with all the technology of the future our best defense is still a good old punch-fest.
Pros well paced, great story, great actors, humor
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
Fun Two Hours
PostedFebruary 15, 2013
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
4
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
4
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5
I'm not sure exactly what I went in expecting. The trailer is a little vague, it sounded like another indictment of big pharma, and I'm not enough of a movie buff to care about Soderbergh's swan song. But it turned out to be an entertaining thriller with enough twists to keep up interest. Everything about it was good, except for the performance of Rooney Mara, which was very good. There are a lot worse ways to spend two hours in a movie house.
Pros solidly good
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
Interesting in Unexpected Ways
PostedJanuary 13, 2013
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
3
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
4
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5
This is a well-written, well-acted, well-directed movie, with a surprisingly real grittiness for a movie about such a hot topic. I didn't see Hurt Locker, so can't compare, and I admit to liking any movie which can annoy some US Senators with too much time on their hands. If you want an excoriation of water-boarding or a hero worship of the team that killed Bin Laden, you are in for a disappointment. The torture sequences are not introduced with the expected explanation of what waterl-boarding does, they just happen. The CIA agent is just doing a job he finds wearing, not a sadist. The terrorists seem mostly small, not given to religious tirades. And the heroes seem more like guys at a southern truck stop than buff and beautiful creatures of justice. So if you truly want all this to be at some extreme, the movie will be disappointing. I thought it rang very true to the way individuals and organizations really act. It's not an action thriller, but a thoughtful look at a lot of issues.
Pros well paced, great actors
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
3
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5
Important Subject, Incompetent Debate
PostedJanuary 9, 2013
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
3
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5
Special Effects
2
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5
Art Direction
3
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
2
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5
Camerawork
2
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5
I love Matt Damon, one of my favorite actors. And he acted very well in this movie, as did the entire cast. But the movie is a large, vacuous sham. I get it that I'm supposed to hate the big company, love the rural folk and shut down all fracking. Global is so bad, and Hal Holbrook is so decent, and rural America has never looked better that it's easy to draw back from those stereotypes and mentally deflate them. But I actually would like to know more about the pros and cons of tracking because we will have to decide. This movie provides not one smidgeon of sensible insight. Just a series of ginned-up scenes. But I am still looking for answers, and for Matt Damon's next movie.
Pros matt damon
Cons treats us as stupid
No, I do not recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
What's not to like? Or love?
PostedJanuary 3, 2013
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
3
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5
Art Direction
3
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5
Acting
3
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5
Story
3
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5
Camerawork
3
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5
You can't get too far off track with Billy Crystal and Bette Midler, both with good comedic instincts and freshly lifted faces. And adorable kids. Everything about the movie is a bit over the top, exactly what you would expect and a pleasant way to spend less than two hours.
Pros pleasant
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
Erratic but fun
PostedJanuary 3, 2013
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
3
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5
Art Direction
3
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5
Acting
3
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
3
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5
From the trailers it looks like a comedy, and at various points it is hilarious. But it veers off in to the slightly treacly area of family relationships. But it's all very warm. Everyone is good, which is all the movie demands, the humor is good, the scene with the school principal is pricesless.
Pros funwarm
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
Mixed Reaction
PostedDecember 29, 2012
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Special Effects
4
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
4
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5
I've seen the stage version five times, so I went to the movie a little nervously. First, I enjoyed it and the surest measure is that the time (all of it) passed pretty quickly. Second, the movie stayed true to the novel/stage versions, if anything it's Catholic origins shine more fully. Third, the performances were mostly quite good with the exceptions of Russell Crowe, who just hasn't enough voice, and Sacha Baron Cohen, who somehow gets lost in two major scenes rather than stealing them as is often done on stage. An offsetting pleasure is Marius. Fourth, it is kind of a guilty pleasure: you really shouldn't so enjoy a creaky, dated, and over produced movie. And that's I still prefer the stage. Much of the excess is left to your imagination and you can have as much or as little as you like.
Pros great story, marius
Cons mixed singing, over produced
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
Really Good But.....
PostedNovember 13, 2012
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
3
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5
Special Effects
3
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5
Art Direction
5
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5
Acting
5
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
5
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5
This is a veritable cornucopia of good things: actors, scenes, camera work, lighting. The writing was the only thing not up to snuff. But so full of production values that I sometimes felt I was looking at pictures with the color too saturated, or listening to music played too loud. The result was that while I enjoyed the movie I also felt a bit distant from the drama. Having said that, much of the audience applauded at the end. And Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field should get Oscar nominations. But I don't think the picture should. But it will. It is interesting to see what we choose to elevate in our most current heroes, and how times change.
Pros great actors, oodles of production values
Cons what is good is a bit too good
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
Strangely Enjoyable
PostedNovember 10, 2012
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
4
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
4
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5
Camerawork
4
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5
I was all prepared to dislike this movie, and be annoyed at spending almost 3 hours in one seat. Strangely, I enjoyed it thoroughly and was surprised when it ended. Never read the book, but just from the movie this seemed less complicated and less mysterious than I had thought. Everything about it was well-done, including the little funny-talk that Hanks and Halle slipped into for the unimportant parts of the film. Between the time shifts, the make-up shifts, the multiple parts, this movie was like a cat toy, energetically entertaining.
Pros well paced, clever inventive
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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Overall rating
4
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5
What Can You Say.....?
PostedNovember 10, 2012
Piotzar
from Belmont, MA
Age:65 or over
Gender:Male
Goes to the movies:weekly
Dialogue
4
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5
Special Effects
4
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5
Art Direction
4
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5
Acting
4
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5
Story
3
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5
Camerawork
4
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5
Daniel Craig is great, Judie Dench is great, Javier Bardem is weird, everyone else is expendable or expended. Perfectly pleasant movie. The only problems are that Daniel Craig seems a little old, though still serviceable, the evil genius is just a super-hacker with a mommy complex, maybe that is the new evil, and this movie has nothing distinctively "Bond" about it, which may be of no interest to new viewers. A glossy action movie with a little thrill.
Pros everything was good
Cons nothing was great
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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