'Mr. Brooks'. How is this movie not getting talked about? No spoiler

[Dids]

It's a 56% on RT, and 52% in the "Cream of the Crop". The reviews I read generally trashed it.

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It's a 56% on RT, and 52% in the "Cream of the Crop". The reviews I read generally trashed it.

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Yep. Pretty much every review I've read said it was fairly terrible. At some point in my life, I started feeling bad for Kevin Costner. I thought, 'This guy's not a terrible actor, but for some reason he just stars in dud after dud after dud." Then I realized he is a terrible actor.

[Howard Beale]

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It's a 56% on RT, and 52% in the "Cream of the Crop". The reviews I read generally trashed it.

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This movie is GOOD and I know movies. There isn't a dull, lagging, moment in it. It's horrifying, mesmerizing, disturbing and 'funny' at varying times.

Demi Moore looks fine (boy, is she EVER good enough for me, as if) and gets her own great action scene. William Hurt is absolutely delicious.

And it has the incredibly adorable semi-newcomer Danielle Panabaker who is close to replacing Anne Hathaway as my new dream girl.

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It's a 56% on RT, and 52% in the "Cream of the Crop". The reviews I read generally trashed it.

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This movie is GOOD and I know movies. There isn't a dull, lagging, moment in it. It's horrifying, mesmerizing, disturbing and 'funny' at varying times.

Demi Moore looks fine (boy, is she EVER good enough for me, as if) and gets her own great action scene. William Hurt is absolutely delicious.

And it has the incredibly adorable semi-newcomer Danielle Panabaker who is close to replacing Anne Hathaway as my new dream girl.



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Please share five to 10 examples of movies you like in the same or similar genre.

[Howard Beale]

There IS no similar genre and that's one of the great things about this movie. It's fresh. Sure, there are movies with these elements separately but not brought together like this.

If I had to list movies that I like because I think they were different from everything else I'd pick movies like 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'Brazil', 'Adaptation', 'Memento' and 'Requiem for a Dream' as examples.

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There IS no similar genre and that's one of the great things about this movie. It's fresh. Sure, there are movies with these elements separately but not brought together like this.

If I had to list movies that I like because I think they were different from everything else I'd pick movies like 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'Brazil', 'Adaptation', 'Memento' and 'Requiem for a Dream' as examples.

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So you're saying it's better than those?


J/K but thats a pretty strong list

[Howard Beale]

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There IS no similar genre and that's one of the great things about this movie. It's fresh. Sure, there are movies with these elements separately but not brought together like this.

If I had to list movies that I like because I think they were different from everything else I'd pick movies like 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'Brazil', 'Adaptation', 'Memento' and 'Requiem for a Dream' as examples.

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So you're saying it's better than those?


J/K but thats a pretty strong list

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I considered editing my reply because you're right, that is a strong list and Mr. Brooks doesn't really belong with them but it was the only way I could think of to convey the experience I had. The movie gets going, you don't know what to expect and the next thing your thinking is 'Wow, what's this?' and you can't wait to see what happens next while you enjoy everybody's performance.

So, no, it's not that good but it's pretty darn good, imo.

[Inthacup]

The movie gets going, you don't know what to expect and the next thing your thinking is 'Wow, what's this?' and you can't wait to see what happens next while you enjoy everybody's performance.

This is a good way to describe how I felt about "Brick".

[CharlieDontSurf]

I've heard costner and hurt are fantastic but the other storylines--demi/dane cook hurt the film.

[Howard Beale]

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I've heard costner and hurt are fantastic but the other storylines--demi/dane cook hurt the film.

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Dane Cook is the weakest link. They should've gone with someone else. He's not horrible but not very good. Demi has a distracting side story but is ok in her main part and has a great knockemdead action scene that makes up for any prior lack. Come to think of it, her side story is vital to the movie so I take that part back.