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Movie Review: Regretting You

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The new movie “Regretting You” is a formulaic drama/tear-jerker based on the novel with the same name written by Coleen Hoover, which serves to prove how difficult an art form screenwriting is. There is a predictable, tragic event within the first 25% of this story, and then the problem is, where do you go from there? Unfortunately, the remainder of this story includes an entire daytime soap opera, with multiple discoveries of cheating that happened years earlier, with an on-again, off-again teenage relationship story fillers that, for the most part, provide scenes to make this rather bad movie its two hours.

Regretting You stars Allison Williams as Morgan Grant, McKenna Grace as her daughter, Clara Grant, with
Scott Eastwood as her husband Chris, and Jenny Davidson (Willa Fitzgerald) married to Jonah Sullivan (Dave Franco). They all create a love quadrangle involving two couples, all of whom have many secrets of infidelity. The problems with this movie are that it is too predictable, too boring in too many areas, with no real message after the two hours are finished.

This screenplay required many more rewrites and looks like it was rushed into production. The central climax/tragedy in this story happens too soon, and could have been corrected by more setup in the first act of this screenplay. The acting is OK, but due to the slow and boring parts, and the soap opera-like story there is no way this movie will be in theaters any longer than two weeks. This time around the extremely low Rotten Tomatoes of 30% is correct, with a recommendation to miss this movie.

Movie Review: Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

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Most fans of the great entertainer Bruce Springsteen will probably think that the new biopic “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” is about how someone born in Freehold, New Jersey, in September 1949, came from nowhere and became an international sensation. This movie would be about a sequential story spanning many years of squalor and hardship, including sleeping on couches, living in a car, and in bad hotel rooms, with no money, hunger, and desperation, and somehow never giving up the impossible dream of becoming a famous singer. This film would also be about his friends in “The E Street Band” and how their friendships grew, and how they all overcame so many years of bad times and then finally tremendous success.

Unfortunately, this movie is not about any of these things. The screenwriter/director, Scott Cooper, decided to make this entire movie about a small moment in time in Springsteen’s career after his album “The River” was released, when Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White) spent time in a rented house in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and records a new album on low-quality sound equipment and spends too much of the remaining movie brooding and depressed over releasing this new album “Nebraska” as he recorded it originally. This includes many disagreements with his manager Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong), and his off and on again relationship with a single mother Faye Romano (Odessa Young), which, due to his conflicts and depression he treats very badly in this film. Ongoing flashbacks with Springsteen and his abusive alcoholic father (Stephen Graham) are at times hard to watch, because his father turned his anger and rage over his horrible life and bad jobs out on his wife and son, a life reality familiar to too many of us.

Most impressive are the way too few singing performances of Jeremy Allen White, who closely masters the sounds and single style of one of the greatest singers of all time. Anyone would have to admire the amount of hours of training and practice to master a voice as challenging as Springsteen’s.

Once again, in an effort to do something new and different, a great opportunity was lost with this movie because just about everybody would rather see a true biography and not a small, depressing excerpt of the career of Bruce Springsteen. This is the reason behind the low ratings of 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, making a movie that should have been a huge hit, a big miss, for reasons that are so obvious. Overal I also rate this movie a pass, only recommending the scenes of some good acting and the too few singing performances of Jeremy Allen White.

Movie Review: After the Hunt

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Some months from now, some insomniac will be streaming the new movie “After the Hunt” and will be sound asleep within minutes, and then worry that the coma this movie puts you in might never end.

After the Hunt is entirely about PHD candidates and professors at Yale University in the year 2019. Julia Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a professor of philosophy, who is married to Frederik Imhoff who is a psychiatrist played by Michael Stuhlbarg but is also having an affair with Hank, another philosophy professor who later in this story is accused of raping a PHD student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri).

Given that the main part of this story is a he-said-she-said conflict, amazingly, all these well-named successful actors agreed to act in this long and boring movie, but stunningly, this simple storyline dragged on for a nightmare 2 hours and 18 minutes. There are attempts at filler side stories, including Dr. Kim Sayers (Chloë Sevigny), who is friends with Alma Imhoff and is a student/faculty liaison at the university, but her presence in this film has almost no significance. The worst part of this bad movie is the too many scenes of chain smoking, once again, a decision the producer made to fund this movie, probably because the script was so bad, they could not get money anywhere else.

The merciful ending includes a scene with Alma, who is in the hospital for an ulcer condition, and provides a major revelation about an event in her childhood that tries to tie together with the story, which also mostly fails, along with this movie, which, despite some scenes of good acting, is a big miss.

The very low 38 and falling ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for this extremely long and boring movie are correct this time around. This one should be missed by everybody, except for the most die-hard insomniacs.