Don Jon
Crit
Not really sure how I feel about this. I mean, I didn't like it, but then I didn't hate it enough to decide not to spend another 2½ hours in a dark room watching people drive really fast. But then again, when I came out of the theater, that's exactly what I decided.
One objection I have to this is that it seems to be a way to show a lot of online porn on screen--seriously, there's a lot of porn on screen--while maintaining deniability about actually purveying porn.
I guess the (you should pardon the expression) bottom line is that almost everyone (excepting MFW Julianne Moore in an odd underdeveloped role as Jon's connection mentor, and maybe excepting Brie Larson as his sister, who provides metaphorical backup to his porn addiction with her own device addiction--to the point that she speaks only once in the film) is just really stupid, and not stupid in an engaging Homer Simpson way, but stupid in a the-story-of-your-growth-is-not-worth-my-eight-bucks way.
The good reviews and the brilliant Rotten Tomatoes numbers are a mystery.
Trailers
- Out of the Furnace--Little brother in trouble, big brother gets back into the bad game, yadda, yadda, yadda.
- American Hustle--New from David O. Russell, who for my money--which is very different from the Academy's money and most critics' money--needs to find his groove again.
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