We finally got to see
The Town. It took five of us to finally get up and go on a Tuesday night. Not many people would really care, but I think us living in Boston this year made the movie that much better, at least for me. Ben Affleck did an amazing job, directing, acting and co-writing this movie. Jeremy Renner was great as always as he picks up right where he left off with The Hurt Locker. I think we came to a consensus that we all really enjoyed
The Town. Surprisingly, I thought the movie was actually really funny at parts, maybe it's just the characters and their accents but I did happen to laugh out loud at a couple scenes.
The Town was just a well-thought out and well-scripted movie. Completely worth seeing. If you get the chance to see it before it leaves theaters I highly recommend it. The previews looked great too, so expect to see lots more good movies this winter.
Overall Rating: 8.6 / 10
- Josh Berg
The Town. I can't mention this movie without reiterating Josh's comment about how cool it was to watch it in Boston. Though we could have predicted them, the "We were
just there!" moments made the movie so cool. But that wasn't the only reason I got a kick out of the movie. The first half to two thirds of the movie seemed a little bit flat; a slightly predictable and more than slightly tired plot theme seemed to be the movie's only lifeline, so I wasn't extremely enthused (except, of course, for the neatness of the Boston feel).
The last part of
The Town - as everything breaks and we see our hero/director/co-writer's character's situation get interesting - more than makes up for the first half, which (despite my initial impression) didn't serve as much as the main course but as an appetizer of character development. It was a fun ride, for sure. Predictable at times? Yes. Full of cliches? No, but it had its moments.
As a Boston movie blog, it would be a sin to review The Town without at least mentioning the quality of the accents. I don't know if that's really how Ben Affleck talks or what, but he seems to have a very complex and unpredictable algorithm as to which "r" sounds he's going to skip ("Get in the cah.") and which he will articulate with startling strength ("Is that clea
r?"). As for the rest, they varied from actor to actor, but nobody seemed like a stiff or a try-hard. Not terrible. (
Note: I am not from Boston and don't hang out around Southie, but my understanding is that Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting or The Departed has the most accurate Boston accent in Hollywood.)
I recommend this movie. It's not
Boondock Saints, but it's a gritty, well-done crime thriller with some of the better character development I've seen in such a movie.
Overall Rating: 8.5 / 10
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The Usual Suspects is such a phenomenal movie, I can't rave enough about how great this movie is. From beginning to end, at no point in time should you be bored watching this movie. Every minute is either filled with non-stop action, or your laughing at how funny Benicio Del Toro is. Stephen Baldwin is obviously great, especially when he gets to play the role of a car-jacker. I'll just go through the list because I feel that I just might have to. Gabriel Byrne plays off his role of "Dean Keaton" so well, that it may just seem to viewers that it actually might just be him in real life. Kevin Pollack is my least favorite in the bunch but that doesn't mean he didn't play his role well. Last but not least the greatest of them all, Kevin Spacey takes the gold medal for his performance. If anyone's keeping track still, Kevin Spacey is one of my top 5 actors. He's such a brilliant actor, he can play any role any which way he wants and receive an Oscar Winning Performance. Bryan Singler did a great job directing this film, while Christopher McQuarrie's brilliance of creating such a movie is a gift to us all. Oh, and this film may have one of the best twists of ever created. Absolutely amazing movie, anyone who hasn't seen this, has to go see this film immediately.
