Lions for Lambs

[TNC9852002]

I'll definitely give it a shot tomorrow. I saw Fred Claus today.

-TNC

 

[TNC9852002]

Hmmm...It has a D user rating on Yahoo! Movies.

-TNC

 

[Fenrir]

Just from the trailer of the film, it looked way too preachy and not sophisticated enough.

 

[Sebastos]

Hmmm...It has a D user rating on Yahoo! Movies.

-TNC

Yeah, I think i'm going to pass...

 

[Mr. Socko]

This propagandistic film has flopped critically and BO is looking bad as well.

Shame on you Cruise.

 

[Dark Donnie]

Hmmm...It has a D user rating on Yahoo! Movies.

-TNC

I wonder why?

 

[Sebastos]

This propagandistic film has flopped critically and BO is looking bad as well.

Shame on you Cruise.

I don't know, I think people want to laugh or see something else rather then be stuck watching these kind of movies.

 

[Warhammer]

I was seriously thinking about seeing this tomorrow, but since this wasn't one of those films I was anticipating, I usually let critical reception sway me. Reading Roger Ebert's (I agree with him 90% of the time) review, I don't feel like watching a 2 1/2 out of 4 star "talkathon."

 

[Spider-Fan]

I am gonna see this eventually...though I will have to do it alone. Nobody else I know wants to see it.

I think people's political views definately is part of the movie's bashing. Might not be all of it (I have not read any reviews), but I am sure it is part of it.

 

[Warhammer]

Spider-Fan, you took the cure, too.

 

[Sugarculted]

Saw Lions for Lambs on Tuesday, at a free preview screening.

Cruise was at top form yet again, he's a great actor. Same goes for Meryl Streep. Their parts in the film, which were just about discussing the Senator's new plans, were in fact, fun to watch. The chemistry between them was superb.
Then, we cut to a rather tiresome Robert Redford trying to give a lecture to a kid who doesn't care about war/school/anything in general. Something about this segment of the film seems too forced upon you. We find out that Redford tries to encourage this disaffected student into actually caring about the issues today. Why is Redford so bothered? Well, mainly because two of his past students left to fight in the war.
We don't actually get the set up to the two previous students who decide to join the battle in Afghanistan until the second half of the movie. Which to me, really meant the ending of the film lacked in emotional appeal.
I feel like we were supposed to connect with the soldiers, connect with Redford, and pretty much everything else. But, in my eyes the political issues were too forced onto you wrongly. Something about Redford's direction bothered me.

I'm not bashing the film entirely for it's political issues and how they are shown to us, it was just that something about the film didn't settle for as great a performance as we could've received. Honestly though, Lions for Lambs isn't the typical sort of film I'd watch. I'd raise my fist in the air for Rodriguez's Planet Terror in the trailers before the film, and then sit silently throughout a political drama. But that doesn't change my views, I kept an open mind and attempted to enjoy it.

That said, Lions for Lambs isn't an awful film. Oh no, far from it. But it's imperfections as to how the story is told, bothered me. Cruise and Meryl were stellar, but as for the rest of the cast? They felt sub par to me, sorry to say.

Marks outta ten? I'll give it a healthy six. For it's imperfections with the storytelling of the students, everything else was handled okay.