Lulu's comments (member since Aug 06, 2008)

Lulu's comments from the Movies We've Just Watched group.

Just saw this and really liked it. However, I wouldn't say it was a phenomenal movie. It had the potential to be great and then somehow was not executed properly. A.O. Scott ripped it apart in his New York Times review and then pointed out at the end that he by no means disliked it. Oddly enough, this was my reaction. It was a bit cheesy and overly sentimental. All characters aside from John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph were mere caricatures of humans. Rudolph and Krasinski were definitely put on a pedestal for us to admire and yet they were so insecure and nervous about their abilities to parent. The movie is very flawed and yet I thoroughly enjoyed it and cannot imagine anyone seeing it and not liking it.

The Visitor with Richard Jenkins- one of the most powerful movies I've seen in my life. I think it's out of theatres now. It was an arthouse movie that played, at least in my town, only for about six weeks. Watch the trailer on Youtube. It makes me cry even though it's not really a tear-jerker movie, I promise!