Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist: I thought Michael Cera was lovely and most of the cast enjoyable to watch. The story was so-so, and for a movie so focused on music I kind of felt like music took too much of a backseat. HATED the drunk girl vomits and chews vomit gum bits. HATED. And the decision to make the girl that dumps Cera's character such a movie-typical hot teen bitch was really disappointing.

Gigantic: Starring Paul Dano who mostly wasted away here. The only person with any energy in this film was John Goodman, and this very-not-so-great movie was worth it just for his scenes. Zooey D. was the Zooey D. she always is when she isn't awesomely singing, and mostly I just wanted to steal her clothes. There was a subplot involving Zach Galifianakis that was really out of place, adding a "Fight Club" is this guy nuts question mark that is never answered and, based on how the rest of the film played out, really should have been. Quirky fluff that never delivers, again, minus Goodman.