Best movie of this year hands down!

That was an excellent one.

As Good As It Gets

A Disappointing Continuation

Imagine if you will a universe where Katy Perry and Taylor Swift are paid hitmen working for Danny Trejo in another cameo role. Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are downright enjoyable in this quirky dark comedy. This is a genius indie designed to give you a Merrillee Rush. Violet and Daisy come across an easy hit (James Gandolfini) which causes them to examine their lives...one where they met as doll surgeons and life is about a Barbara Sunday designer dress.Some lines from the film:About the number one killer: "He once killed 3 ninjas with a fingernail file." Violet theology: "Heaven is a place...where everything is free or at least wholesale." And "Everything is a test when you are a career woman."Excellent musical score using classical rock tunes to give them new meaning.Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.Written by Geoffrey Fletcher, the first African-American to win an Oscar for best adapted screenplay - "Precious."

Review: What a weird storyline! 2 hit girls for hire, take on a job so they can afford some dresses and they end up caring for the guy that they are going to kill. The music really did spoil the whole feel of the movie, but on the plus side, it does have a shock factor. You really don't know what is going to happen from some scene to the next, which makes you stick with the movie, just to find out what crazy direction it's going to go in next. Although the storyline is fresh and original, it does have a slight comedy feel to it which is a bit strange for a film of this style. Anyway, it's worth a watch but it's not the type of film that you can watch time and time again. Watchable!Round-Up: This is yet another movie with Saoirse Ronan which might have been slightly better if there was someone else playing her role. In this film her effortless acting style does work because her partner in crime is nuts, but her character could have done with some in depth emotion. Gandolfini put in a great performance, as usual, which shows that his contribution in film will be missed. Danny Trejo's couple of minutes were better than a lot of his full length movies and Alexis Bledel, the girl who played Violet, was very believable and totally crazy. As for the movie, the concept was good but it could have been a lot better.Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: $18,000 (Terrible!)I recommend this movie to people who are into there drama/thriller/comedy type movies about a couple of hit girls for hire. 4/10

Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target (James Gandolfini) throws them off their plan."Violet & Daisy" received mostly negative reviews; it received a rotten rating of 24% on Rotten Tomatoes. How this happened is unknown, because I think it is rather outstanding in its own way.Alexis Bledel is probably best known for the quirky role of Rory Gilmore in the "Gilmore Girls". While she was excellent in that, she had a rather limited range. This takes her outside of that, with a darker tone and a different brand of comedy. I thought it was hilarious.The use of flower names was clever and not at all annoying like it could be, even when the third girl (Rose) is added in. They also happen to share names with Daisy and Violet Hilton, well-known Siamese twins. Was this intentional? Probably not, but it seemed like an interesting take to me.Matt Zoller Seitz sums the film up this way: "Gandolfini's quietly magnificent performance is the only reason to see 'Violet & Daisy,' a thriller that might as well have been released in 1996, when everybody and their brother and their sister and their cousin twice-removed was trying to be Quentin Tarantino, writing screenplays about loquacious hit men and gangsters and molls delivering cutesy monologues in wacky, not-quite-real universes." I see what he is getting at, but why must the best type of film from the 90s remain in the 90s? This is more than a rip off or homage to Tarantino, but a worthy spiritual successor.

I thought this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I got it mainly because I was looking for more things that the Orphan Black chick is in, and because it had the late, great Mr. Gandolfini. Well, Tatiana is in the movie for about 60 seconds, for one thing.Sometimes movies can be outrageous and unrealistic and still work because of elements of style, great dialogue, etc., but this movie was just stupid. It had tiny bits of style, e.g., the scenes when they were dressed up as nuns on a job. But, the situation, the writing, the nonsensical decision making...it was just too much.I don't think Alexis Bledel did anything to make it better. Maybe if they had a more likable person in that role it would have helped. I recommend that you don't waste your time, unless you really miss Tony Soprano and just fast forward to all of his speaking parts.