I've seen three movies in the last week, and I'm starting to form this theory about professional movie reviews. It goes like this: Everything they say is right, just exaggerated.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End got almost unfriendly views. People said it was too long, and nothing happened, and no one knew what was going on. Well it was about 45 minutes to long, and there were scenes that seemed like nothing happened. But I challenge a person to pick out any of those scenes and count them as unnecessary enough cut out. And I can see why people didn't know what was going on: people are stupid, and don't pay attention.
Ocean's Thirteen was just as long, and for the first bit it actually did seem like there was no plot development. The worst part about it was when there wasn't even a big thing at the end where they showed you how they actually did it. You just watched it all happen and that was that.
Finally, Knocked Up was just as long as the other two and filled with really awkward character development. The problem with Knocked Up was it was real. It was funny – incredibly so. It was also way too real, and filled with all of life's awkward moments and references to really bad Vince Vaughan films.
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