Monday, January 14, 2013

Logging

Film:  Magic Mike

Fantastic little movie.  First hour truly great.  Starts to lag after that and 3rd Act is weakest.  The girl steals the movie -- Cody Horn.  There was a dimension to her performance that is rare, a steadfastness, a dignity you don't often see.  You can say this stems from writing, but in lesser hands it rings false.  She brought it.

I can't figure out Soderbergh.  When he's good, he's so damn good, but his batting average on films is pretty low and he strikes out a lot.  Also, I'm not sure his films age.  Puzzling.  Haywire and Magic Mike in one year.

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