MOON...I'll give this 3 out of 4 stars...it was very good and
kudo's to a great performance my Sam Rockwell...While it definitely took a lot of concepts you've seen before it was it's own movie and would recommend seeing it in the movies for 3 reasons...(please note this is a thinking man/womens Sci-Fi flick not a CGI fest w/o a story)
1) Sam Rockwell's performance
2) The shots of the moonscape were very cool...
3) So they keep making movies like this...straight to DVD movies generally SUCK...
One question...the facility on the moon was pretty big...why was his bed
soooooo small??? Maybe it was outsourced and built by a Japanese conglomerate?
Also, the actress that plays Sam Bell's wife...pretty HOT...
The Girlfriend Experience...This gets 2 1/2 stars...I did like it better then I expected to...and the lead actress Sasha Grey who plays a high end escort in the movie was pretty good (she is a porn star...or so the write-ups I've read say...I may need to check out her "body" of work). This one you could wait for DVD because this could be a HBO or Showtime movie. It is not in chronological time...which for certain elements of the story worked but for others not as well...I would like to see a Directors Cut with most of it in chronological order...I would break the movie into three parts...
Beginning - A lot of vapid shallow characters talking about nothing...wasn't sure where it was going
Body of movie - it started getting pretty funny...wasn't expecting that and it was good...
Ending...this is where being all over the place didn't really work...didn't ruin it...but I would have done it differently...
This for the record is a VERY NEW YORK centric movie especially catching the here and now... her girlfriend looks like every other girl in NY...constant designer name dropping, scenes shot in plenty of restaurants you know or have walked by...and constant harping on the state of the economy and the upcoming election (it takes place Oct/Nov of 08)
