Trouble with the Curve
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So, yesterday I ended up not seeing The Master and instead going to Trouble with the Curve with two friends. I naturally have plenty of opinions about it, but they've all been said better, more eloquently, more professionally, and more clearly elsewhere. See what Roger Ebert or somebody thinks if you'd like to hear whether it's any good.
See, the thing is, there's one major aspect of that movie that still stands out to me above all the others. The "I am your father" of Trouble, if you will.
I could tell you that Amy Adams delivered a great performance, but I only recall a couple of lines.
I could tell you about how forced parts of the romantic sub-plot felt at first, but that was corrected quickly.
I could tell you that Justin Timberlake was played his character endearingly, but I don't recall much about it.
I could tell you that it was a little bit too predictable, but that could be said for anything.
I could tell you that the ending was rushed to perfectly happy endings, but I didn't mind it for the most part.
I could tell you it was memorable overall, but that wouldn't fit the theme of this entry.
No, what resonates most about Trouble is the fact that, at one glorious moment which may be the greatest second of cinematic history, Clint Eastwood yells, for the second time this month, at a chair. It was rather spectacular: We had just finished talking about Eastwood's RNC chair-rant, when, only an hour into the movie, he replicates it. What a stroke of pure serendipity.
Seriously, though, it was a pretty good movie, well-acted but occasionally a bit too perfect.
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