Pain & Gain

Oh Pain & Gain I so wanted you to be a good movie. I love Mark Wahlberg, I mean like watch all of his movies and over and over just to look at his pretty face (and of course observe his wonderful acting skills). So, naturally when I saw he was in this movie I was excited and couldn't wait for it to be released.

Unfortunately, I was extremely let down. To sum up the movie *spoiler* it's body builders, stealing, big time fail, murder, busted. If you are not aware this is a true story or at least based off a true story, so I don't know if that makes it better or worse. The movie is really slow, it takes a long time for it to get to a plot. Once it gets to the plot you're hoping okay great it's got to get better, but it doesn't.

I don't know if this was just not my type of movie, but I had a hard time finding the comedy in this story. There is definitely drama and action, as well as a lot of detail paid to the murders but comedy was severely lacking. As much as I love Mark Wahlberg I was really disappointed I paid for this movie.

Sorry folks, for me and my taste this movie is a skip it!

Small Apartments

Something I often do is find any and all films certain actors/actresses are in and watch them. It just so happened that this movie had both Rebel Wilson and Juno Temple in it and I love both of them. I want to say that those two made this film worth watching, but they did not.

This is a strange movie, with a strange main character. Most people would recognize him as Rebel Wilson's brother from Bridesmaids. There are definitely funny parts to this movie, however I am not sure I would actually classify it as a comedy. By the way the film is done and the odd script the movie seems comparable to Indie films. Don't get me wrong, I do like some Indie films. 

The message at the end of this movie is touching but I'm not sure the rest of the movie is worth watching to get to that point. Sorry everyone, this is another skip it movie.