Comments on: The Adjustment Bureau http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/04/the-adjustment-bureau/ Thu, 23 May 2013 06:06:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Manoel O. Audaz http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/04/the-adjustment-bureau/comment-page-1/#comment-106701 Manoel O. Audaz Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:03:24 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=27618#comment-106701 I’m glad to hear about that stuff you guys did. What about the movie?

]]> By: bb http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/04/the-adjustment-bureau/comment-page-1/#comment-106662 bb Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:06:36 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=27618#comment-106662 hi Glen!

sorry The Adjustment Bureau didn’t float boats. I must say, attending any movie with Ken and Laphroiag is going to improve the experience 15-500%. Speaking of bad movies, given that it’s 4/20, I’m itching to go see Your Highness, which I know will be idiotic but perhaps sublimely idiotic. One can dream.

Hopefully the next blockbuster you find yourself in front of gives a little ambition back!

BB

]]> By: Glen Helfand http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/04/the-adjustment-bureau/comment-page-1/#comment-106660 Glen Helfand Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:50:08 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=27618#comment-106660 Brandon, love that you wrote about the Adjustment Bureau! I’m a little jealous, though. I sheepishly admit I saw it also,in a mall, and had a drink or two beforehand. But rather than generating philosophical discussion, it elicited a melancholy of mediocrity. Maybe it needed whiskey to make the movie come alive. (Come to think of it, last time I ran into Ken, he graciously plied me with bourbon samples.) For me, the film was utterly MOR– shot like a TV movie, a lite version of Inception (something I really couldn’t slog through) with a less complicated script and lower grade special effects. It had those cheesy cameos by Mary Matalin and James Carville, the preposterous flirtatious trust Emily Blunt put in Matt Damon, and that ominous silver-haired guy from Mad Men who seemed to carry his same wardrobe from the TV show, as if they couldn’t afford to tailor a new suit. It made me sad for it being so middling. It wasn’t good enough to be engaging, nor bad enough to irritate– and it seemed like the filmmakers were aware of that. It was just product, a profound example of our cultural decline– squeaking by on bare bones. Oh, maybe I was just in a mood. Or I’ve managed to avoid seeing this kind of mainstream movie for a good stretch, and was overly sensitive to its lack of ambition– I’m a Capricorn.

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