Movie #862 "Her" is the least favorite of all the movies nominated for best film for the Oscars this year. I just never got into it. I missed the "wonder" of it ---- that is, I think it is terribly over-rated. I get the point that in the future that it might be possible to fall in love with your "sure" type phone, but it just seemed silly to me all the way through ----- I couldn't buy it on any level --- as a satire, as sic fi, as a romantic comedy, as a tragicomedy, whatever......but there were some good things in it, one big one was Amy Adams----- this seemed so different from the Amy Adams we have seen before. She is very timid, but very genuine and intelligent and playful all rolled into one person. She is definitely the person he should be in love with instead of his phone, so I guess I got that out of the film. Also that it is ridiculous to fall in love with your phone --- but then I knew that already! Really, at the end of this movie, Dave and I just looked at each other and wondered why we saw it. It was nominated, that's why, and we had heard lots of good things about it. Well, that's not how we felt, so I thought I'd save you time and money if you are on the edge here whether you should see it or not. I am not a fan. Now, we did talk about it, but what we said was that it seemed a little like "Lars in the Real Girl" -- except in that film, Lars (the great Ryan Gosling) falls in love with a blow up doll. But that movie was SO MUCH BETTER than this!!!! However, not everyone can get past the silly idea of someone falling in love with a blow up doll (talking to it, kissing it, etc.) In that film, it is about so much more ---- he's working through some mental illness there. And people try to help him through it, and the film becomes so inspiring. This one, you can also see, that he is in need of some counseling --- he writes letters for a career, but it spends more time on how much the sure character changes .......the writing isn't near as good as "lars" --- so my recommendation is to see "Lars" over "Her" --- it's a better film, in my opinion.
Her2013R I would give it 3 stars out of 5.
In this sci-fi romantic comedy starring Joaquin Phoenix, love comes to a lonely young writer in the sleekest of packages when he finds himself falling for the advanced operating system he purchased to run his life.
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pratt, Matt Letscher,Portia Doubleday
- Genre:
- Indie Dramas, Indie Romance, Romantic Dramas, Drama
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