August Rush
Apr/16/08 01:07 PM
Alright so first on the list was 2007's August
Rush.
Ok, first things first, apparently the person that writes the blurbs to go on the stickers on the front of the Netflix envelope do not watch the movies they are writing the blurbs about.
I say this because it mentions that August runs into a caring stranger (played by the ever annoying Robin Williams) who helps him develop his musical talents. Okay, first he doesn't help him develop his talents, he just provides a chance for August to get ahold of an instrument & then pimps him out. Second, caring my ASS! Robin William's character was creepy as hell and a jerk! So yeah Netflix. You should probably at least watch the movie before you have someone blurb it for your stickers, not just watch the trailer (cause yeah, in the trailer he does seem like a caring stranger).
ANYWHO, overall it wasn't a bad movie. But it wasn't a great movie. I wouldn't buy it, that's for sure. I probably wouldn't watch it again, unless I was flipping channels and it happened to be on and I couldn't find something else to watch. So it was a lazy Saturday type movie. The ending felt rushed. Like all that build up with Lyla searching and then the end. I just felt like they could have added about 10 more minutes and cut out some parts here and there and a nice explanation would have ended it well.
The kid who played August did a good job - he didn't make his aloof/sincere-ness over the top. It easily could have gone that route. The bullies in the movie though, TOTALLY over the top. I kinda giggled at the beginning when he's in the orphanage. Oh and the girl who meets August in the church was hella cute. I remember when she was playing tennis on the Wii at the Oscars with Jon Stewart. That just makes her more cute.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers did a good job too, I especially liked the scene with him & August in the park. I feel like Keri Russell is trying too hard with her movies lately. Waitress was kind of a letdown, as was this. Like she's trying to get romantic/indy cred. But it's not working. Not that she was bad in this movie, she wasn't. It's just the record she's building up for movies lately seem to lean in that direction. OH! & I KNEW that was Mick St. John from Moonlight on there; I don't know his real name, but I knew that was him!
The music was really good in the movie. I actually went on iTunes and bought two of the songs by Kaki King that August plays on his guitar in the movie. Luckily it never got down to the hokeyness of the Opus that Mr. Holland wrote.
So overall, wouldn't seek out to watch it again, but if there was nothing else on TV and I had nothing better to do I'd probably waste some hours on it.
Next up is either No Country For Old Men or the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. We'll see which one I get to first.
Ok, first things first, apparently the person that writes the blurbs to go on the stickers on the front of the Netflix envelope do not watch the movies they are writing the blurbs about.
I say this because it mentions that August runs into a caring stranger (played by the ever annoying Robin Williams) who helps him develop his musical talents. Okay, first he doesn't help him develop his talents, he just provides a chance for August to get ahold of an instrument & then pimps him out. Second, caring my ASS! Robin William's character was creepy as hell and a jerk! So yeah Netflix. You should probably at least watch the movie before you have someone blurb it for your stickers, not just watch the trailer (cause yeah, in the trailer he does seem like a caring stranger).
ANYWHO, overall it wasn't a bad movie. But it wasn't a great movie. I wouldn't buy it, that's for sure. I probably wouldn't watch it again, unless I was flipping channels and it happened to be on and I couldn't find something else to watch. So it was a lazy Saturday type movie. The ending felt rushed. Like all that build up with Lyla searching and then the end. I just felt like they could have added about 10 more minutes and cut out some parts here and there and a nice explanation would have ended it well.
The kid who played August did a good job - he didn't make his aloof/sincere-ness over the top. It easily could have gone that route. The bullies in the movie though, TOTALLY over the top. I kinda giggled at the beginning when he's in the orphanage. Oh and the girl who meets August in the church was hella cute. I remember when she was playing tennis on the Wii at the Oscars with Jon Stewart. That just makes her more cute.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers did a good job too, I especially liked the scene with him & August in the park. I feel like Keri Russell is trying too hard with her movies lately. Waitress was kind of a letdown, as was this. Like she's trying to get romantic/indy cred. But it's not working. Not that she was bad in this movie, she wasn't. It's just the record she's building up for movies lately seem to lean in that direction. OH! & I KNEW that was Mick St. John from Moonlight on there; I don't know his real name, but I knew that was him!
The music was really good in the movie. I actually went on iTunes and bought two of the songs by Kaki King that August plays on his guitar in the movie. Luckily it never got down to the hokeyness of the Opus that Mr. Holland wrote.
So overall, wouldn't seek out to watch it again, but if there was nothing else on TV and I had nothing better to do I'd probably waste some hours on it.
Next up is either No Country For Old Men or the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. We'll see which one I get to first.
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