Crazy Heart

Scott Cooper directed this drama, music, romance, starring Jeff Bridges (Bad Blake), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Jean Craddock), Colin Farrell (Tommy Sweet) and others. Crazy Heart is the story of Bad Blake essentially analyzing his own life as he is back on the road making country music; from there this story incorporates a relationship, alcoholism and various friends. The story and movie was originally a novel by Thomas Cobb. Well I hope you did not go see this movie thinking you were going to get a lesson on cardiovascular disease like I did; no just kidding, I knew this was for sure a cowboy, country, music movie from the previews. Well the movie was entertaining enough, it was kind of like watching an interlude piece of Willie Nelson's life or something; so you get to see some of the stuff that has been known to occur in country rock stars lives; so I can't really find where the movie derailed or anything, it was just a drama story about this amusing character Blake. I think perhaps the one thing that might sway others views on this picture would be from there full opinion on Crazy Heart by the end, which I imagine could be debated in different ways by some. The movie did get awards though and I would have to say to be a little more clearer that I bet most would probably grade this picture around an 8 or so, as far as a interesting story would go; so perhaps you might want to check this out and I always recommend of course bringing friends who like to wear cowboy stuff as well for movies a bit like this one.
Crazy Heart Trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0349E7kFEM

Invictus

This movie directed by the very famous Clint Eastwood is a biography, drama, sport and history film, starring the also very famous Morgan Freeman (Nelson Mandela), Matt Damon (Francois Pienaar) and others. The movie is essentially about Nelson Mandela in his first term as president of South Africa and who is on a quest to have his country win the 1995, Rugby World Cup to help restore the image of what had been an apartheid torn sort of country. I thought it was good to see something of historical content and intellectual matter, perhaps a little more advanced then the Hottie & the Nottie in this category out of Hollywood. I did enjoy how the film incorporated a lot of facets into a story, such as rugby, Nelson Mandela's life, South Africa, the apartheid and so forth. So yeah I thought the movie was fine but to perhaps express a few thoughts more clearly I kind of felt like I was watching a movie on A & E with Hollywood cameras with more special effects perhaps; so it seemed to really present the details of Nelson Mandela and I think at times you might feel like this is really more of a detailed history lesson from school not things flying around or some other typical Hollywood fun; not that there is anything wrong with either or but just to let you know. On the whole though I thought the movie was worthwhile, perhaps something like a 9 out of 10 shiny rugby ball stars could sum up my perspective on this one; hope that was helpful!
Trailer-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ovkye6lac