A must-see for Bostonians, especially since it has a lot of good aerial helicopter footage, is The Town, which I enjoyed last night. The portrait of some criminals trapped in their hometown (Charlestown) and family business (i.e., crime) is believable. The one off note is the FBI agent, whose energy and dedication cannot be squared with the bureaucracy-first FBI that we’ve come to know post-9/11 (see Washington Post, for example, and Reason). Some great cinematography, but the violence can be hard to watch and a friend who took her 13-year-old son to the movie said “It is very awkward to be sitting next to your boy while people are fucking on screen”.
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Imagie how the 13-yr old felt about having his mother sitting by him as he watched that movie.
It was a great movie. It’s also an ‘R’ rated movie with a trailer that contained a ton of gunfire. It sounds like your friend should have considered both factors before taking her 13-year-old son to see it.
Pedro, Brian: In this day and age of Internet porn, I’m not sure that 13-year-olds are as tender-hearted as they once were.
But even the most jaded of 13 year-olds doesn’t watch internet porn with his mother. Hollywood should be more considerate of their target market.
What kind of parent takes a 13-year-old to any “R” rated movie (any R-rated movie)?
Have they no concept of parenting? It’s sad.
Jeff: As far as the R-rated movie exposing 13-year-olds to the possibility of sex among adults, I think it is worth pointing out that in many societies, including some modern-day ones, it is not uncommon for 13-year-old girls to be married.
Good movie but completely unbelievable. How many armed bank robberies occur these days? Perhaps if the movie was set 80 years ago.
I agree. Good heli shots
I watch R rated movies, at home but not at the movies, with my 2 kids (16-girl and 14-boy) only if there is no strong sexual context such as nudity. As a parent, I find this important to do not only to get first hand experience about their reaction, but for me to know how much they know. That is, I’m watching them more than I’m watching the movie, and when the movie presents an unappropriate language, scene, etc., I want to know their reaction and will interrupt the move to talk about it.
The reality is, as early as 8 years old, they are already exposed to many of what you see in an R rated movies, no matter how much control you constrain on them (private school, limited friends / internet, etc.). This you can’t stop, but guiding them you can.
George: Not make light of your intentions… – you must be a ton of fun for your kids to watch movies with! I know I would only watch Disney with my dad if he kept watching me and interrupting movie night to draw out life lessons. when I did watch movies with my dad at that age – a couple decades ago, he would only interrupt the movie for help understanding English
I watched it last night.
I kept thinking to myself, though, “all that work for $3.5 million? How many minutes does it take Goldman Sachs to earn that amount for pushing paper around and buying off congressmen and senators?”
I did a Google news search for “armed bank robbery”. The oldest story on the first page was less than two weeks ago. So there still seems to be a fair bit of it going on.
I watched this film this over the weekend partly based of Philip’s recommendation. I rate it is three stars going on three and a half. It was a much better than average action film and the best one this year. For action fans, it is basically Heat set in Boston. The action scenes really do rise to the quality of the ones filmed for Heat. Maybe overall it wasn’t as good as Heat – I felt more attachment to the characters in that film. And just like Heat, the bad guys get their comeuppance in the end, all except exactly one! But I won’t tell you which.
Yes, it reminded me very strongly of Heat as well, especially the scene with the girlfriend waiting in her apartment with John Hamm’s character and his team: very similar scene in Heat. I think that, apart from Jeremy Renner (Hurt Locker), the acting talent did not reach the heights of Heat, but then Pacino and de Niro in one movie is setting the bar pretty high!