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Begin Again (2013)
Terrific non-musical movie about music and love
I thought this movie was going to suck, but I am hot for Keira Knightley and I don't mind Mark Ruffalo. I don't enjoy romantic comedies and especially not musicals. Bring in a musical artist as a main actor, I thought this movie was a recipe for failure.
Regardless of my predispositions, I always give every movie a fair and unbiased shot. I was pleasantly surprised with this flick, despite it's predictability. This is one of few movies to successfully fuse music, love, self-discovery, passion, self-worth, business, and family.
Another big surprise to me in this movie was Keira Knightley, who turns out to have a magnificent Americanesque singing voice, which you can sample on the official soundtrack.
Overall, a surprisingly good movie with feel-good vibes.
Bad Johnson (2014)
Bad acting and directing. Hilariously crude writing.
Overall this movie was bad, not compelling, completely predictable (pun intended). The acting in it was fairly bad, as well as the directing and overall production of the movie. That sounds like a recipe for a 1 or 2 out of 10. But no, the writing and jokes in the script, although VERY crude, are hilarious to a certain audience. If that script had landed on the doorstep of the complete cast of This Is the End I think it would have been a success. The script and jokes therein are the only reason to watch this film. If nothing else, you can take away the one-liners and jokes from this crude and hilarious could-have-been. Jeff Tetreault needs a broader audience and larger scope of people to work with. And yes, I did have to look up him name on IMDb.