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Southpaw (2015)
How to make money by selling your used toilet paper.
First off this screenplay makes Rocky 5 look like a Shakespearean masterpiece. Whomever vomited this forth knows nothing about boxing. Knows nothing about managing, promoting or training a boxer. Has never seen or possibly even heard of an actual boxing match.
They know nothing about HBO, HBO sports, sporting fans or anything related to any sport of any kind.
They also know nothing about bankruptcy, foreclosure, family services, anything related to being poor, anything related to being rich, anger management, losing a loved one, dying from a gun shot wound or anything related to anything a child may ever do or say in the real world.
This most amazing thing about this screenplay is somewhere out there in the real world someone got paid (for real) many thousands of dollars (for real) for this handful of used toilet paper.
So, from now on instead of flushing my own used toilet paper I am going to stick it in a envelope addressed to Hollywood and give each piece a title like "Southpaw", "Hockey Stick" or "Field Goal" and wait for the checks to start rolling in.
State of Play (2009)
Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
OK! So this big bad evil company is going to take over all of Da Motherland security and it was built and made up of all top brass ex military leaders all of whom are experts in terrorism, counter-terrorism and espionage. So? The best they can come up with for a super spy plan is to hire an unemployed waitress they found through a doped up public relations guy?
Give me a break!
A company such as that would easily be able to come up with 1000 and 1 ways to just kill the upstart congressman and make it look like a tragic accident.
If his old buddy news reporter started sticking' his nose in then they would simply kill him the same way.
But! Why even bother with killing the congressman? Mr. Smith goes to Washington he was not! The congressman's moral compass was in a constant state of spin. The company could have easily bribed him with a large sum of cash or maybe a seat in the senate.
This movie does do one thing very well. It proves beyond doubt that the art of making a good political thriller is dead!
I want my 2 and a half hours of life back!