Seven Pounds

Very good. Best Picture . . .?
I think I have to see it again.
Tearjerker for me . . . . .

Decent. Not even close to Best Picture, though.

Rosario Dawson gets lots of screen time, which makes one grateful for the gift of eyesight.

I was very impressed with the story.
I had no idea what it was about before seeing it.

i thought it was dreadful

Is it as good a Christmas movie as Die Hard?

"Guitar" on Leno is the greatest performance in the history of rock ' roll

Second Funkiest White Man in America

It sure is nice having adults running our government now

RodeoSchro said:

RodeoSchro said:

CJBabyDaddy said:

Rosario Dawson gets lots of screen time, which makes one grateful for the gift of eyesight.

Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on baby
It has turned off and gone


Lady Day

lately all of will smith movie seem like they just like alike well the trailors do wit him running in the rain standing looking stupid ive never watched one of his movies and dont plan on it

Tell me if this is correct from what I've seen in the trailer and what I've read:


He's suicidal and decides to kill himself and donate 7 organs to 7 people? In a nutshell

Just saw it. It's surely a chick-flick masquerading as follow-me-to-the-end-of-the-movie flick. Not really impressed. Will is kinda boring in it and it took too long to "get going". The extreme close-ups started to get on my nerve as well. The ending was kinda over-the-top with the whole "aquatic" angle. It would have been better as a Tv movie, maybe Oxygen or Lifetime.

MuthaFunka said:

Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on baby
It has turned off and gone


Lady Day

Harlepolis said:

MuthaFunka said:

Just saw it. It's surely a chick-flick masquerading as follow-me-to-the-end-of-the-movie flick. Not really impressed. Will is kinda boring in it and it took too long to "get going". The extreme close-ups started to get on my nerve as well. The ending was kinda over-the-top with the whole "aquatic" angle. It would have been better as a Tv movie, maybe Oxygen or Lifetime.

Kinda?

Mofo is [u]ALWAYS[/b] boring.

But your post sealed it for me I love Rosario,,,,but not enough for me to sit for 2 hours through fluff.

How come Jada doesn't ACT anymore I would love to see more of her and less of that bland husband of hers.

LiquidGold said:

MuthaFunka said:

Harlepolis said:

Kinda?

Mofo is [u]ALWAYS[/b] boring.

But your post sealed it for me I love Rosario,,,,but not enough for me to sit for 2 hours through fluff.

How come Jada doesn't ACT anymore I would love to see more of her and less of that bland husband of hers.

Well, in THIS flick he was TRULY boring. And Jada was in a flick called The Women this year, it's on DVD now. However, jaden, their son, was pretty good in The Day The Earth Stood Still.

MuthaFunka said:

Harlepolis said:

Kinda?

Mofo is [u]ALWAYS[/b] boring.

But your post sealed it for me I love Rosario,,,,but not enough for me to sit for 2 hours through fluff.

How come Jada doesn't ACT anymore I would love to see more of her and less of that bland husband of hers.

Well, in THIS flick he was TRULY boring. And Jada was in a flick called The Women this year, it's on DVD now. However, jaden, their son, was pretty good in The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Love is just like the faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you think it's on baby
It has turned off and gone


Lady Day

Harlepolis said:

MuthaFunka said:

Well, in THIS flick he was TRULY boring. And Jada was in a flick called The Women this year, it's on DVD now. However, jaden, their son, was pretty good in The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Yeah I know that calamity



Some movies should be LEFT alone, dammit I truly hope nobody fucks around and think about remaking All About Eve that will destroy me

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Not that I consider them the final word, but the critics are generally panning this film. For those of you who didn't like it, why not? Is the plot just too depressing, when you expected a feel-good movie? Is the story implausible? Is the directing or acting poor? What's wrong with it?

Lammastide said:

http://www.annistonstar.c...7t3539.htm


By Roger Moore
The Orlando Sentinel
12-18-2008

The rules for a weeper, a movie tear-jerker, could not be simpler. Touch us. Make us fumble around in the dark for a Kleenex. But earn those tears.

Seven Pounds is a weeper wrapped in a mystery centered on an enigma. But whatever pains cast and crew go to preserve its mystery, the movie's tears are righteous, as is its message.

Ben Thomas (Will Smith) is a serious, sad-faced stranger who walks into people's lives like some sort of angel. But is he the Angel of Death or a guardian angel?

Ben's an IRS agent, so he has access to people's entire lives. He shows up, unannounced, and interviews folks — interrogates them actually. He's tactless, a little rude. Who is he? What does he want? What is his mission?

"No questions," he fires back to one and all.

Emily (Rosario Dawson) is one who won't take that for an answer. She has congenital heart failure. She's deep in debt. And this callous Fed seems to be stalking her, seeking to discover, as he does with a blind musician (Woody Harrelson), kids' hockey coach (Bill Smitrovich) or nursing home operator (Tim Kelleher) , if she's a "good person."

Director Gabriele Muccino gives us enough glimpses to guess the big mistake that Ben is atoning for in meeting these people and studying their lives. And since the opening moments of the film are a 911 call, we know where this might go if love, joy or happiness don't intervene.

But forget the puzzle, the cryptic touches and the bracingly sad little music montages that Muccino packs in as filler. Seven Pounds sinks or swims on the Ben and Emily connection; Dawson (Eagle Eye, The 25th Hour), rarely used on film in this way, simply will not let it sink. She lets the camera see what Ben sees in her eyes, the good humor and hope that mask the weariness of a deadly illness. Harrelson and Barry Pepper (playing Ben's best friend) make the case that they each deserve more work than Hollywood offers. Smith usually plays such awards-bait roles with a sullenness that robs him of his movie-star qualities. Not this time.

It's not a masterpiece, but Seven Pounds is perfect in at least one way — its timing. An emotional movie at the most emotional time of the year, it works to keep its secrets. But more importantly, when the tears do come, it has earned them.

I'm glad she has a big roll! That makes me want to see it

Lammastide said:

LiquidGold said:

A few reviews for Seven Pounds:

thought it was a brilliant, beautiful movie.

one of my favorites out of this year.

something different and creative. loved it

when they played Ennio Morricone's "The Crisis". it was beautifuly haunting to play in the movie.. very moving. Hit me right in the heart. Those notes being played technically wrong were to dead on with the idea behind the movie.. beautiful beautiful work.

btw - Will is one of the best actors out right now.. Extremely Convincing, regardless of if you liked the movie or not, his acting skills are first class.

Saw it last night. Thought it was decent, not great, but decent. But utterly confused by all the folks who seem to think there's some great 'mystery' or 'secret' in this movie. I thought it was made fairly clear at the beginning what Will Smith's character is planning on doing.

I thought it was very ordinary.It was drawn out too long.Knock 40 mins off this and it wouldn't have made any difference.Watchable on DVD.Not worth paying to see this.

My cousins saw it, told me to save my money.