Pluskylang Great Film overall

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

bob-790-196018 As one of the first of the Baby Boomers (i.e., an old guy) I found it difficult to watch this film about people born in the 1970s and college-educated in the 1990s without forcing myself to make allowances for generational differences.In the early 1960s, college women (then called girls) were still sexually modest and far too unassertive. The college women played by Maya Strange and Kathleen Robertson, Sam and Thea, are recklessly willful and without restraint in sexual matters--the exact opposite of their counterparts 30 years before. As a college man, meanwhile, Mark Ruffalo's character Coles has a certain charm and can be very affectionate but is essentially juvenile in his attitude toward women. As much as he seems to love Sam, nevertheless he has sex with her best friend Thea right before her eyes, as if to deny that his relationship with Sam is anything more than sex play. Thirty years earlier, he would have been regarded by his fellow males as--well, as an asshole.It turns out that in college, Coles was a slacker in training. Ten years later, he is bitter because his dream of a career as a movie-maker went nowhere, and he shows it in his contempt for the people in the ad agency where he works. He has entered the middle class without the responsibility that goes with middle-class living. He has lived for five years with a woman, Claire, who aspires to a grown-up life, with marriage and children, but he is unable to commit to her. They have a nicely furnished and decorated apartment (one imagines this is Claire's handiwork), and he has cleaned himself up a bit, but he is essentially the same feckless boy-man that he was in school. His perennial uniform continues to be the tee-shirt.No surprise that when Sam re-enters his life, it is not long before we are once again looking at Mark Ruffalo's buttocks as he has sex with Sam. Unfortunately, the worthy Claire accidentally happens upon the same scene.At the end, Sam marries someone else in haste, running away from the trouble that is sure to befall anyone who forms a relationship with the juvenile Coles. And Claire decides to give Coles another chance in order to salvage her five years with him and in hopes of having a permanent home and children. One doubts that she will be happy in the long run.Ultimately, Sam and Thea have at least made an attempt to lead grown-up lives,but Coles remains the same boy-man that he was in college. I expect that many Generation X women will not find this surprising.

Kristine I'm not sure why, but while I was at Hollywood Video, I ran across XX/XY and decided to give it a shot. What did I have to loose? It was free! :D I'm in a special club. Anywho, XX/XY takes on at first this gritty type of independent film with a couple of actors I knew. Mark Ruffalo who I just recently saw in In the Cut and Kathleen Robertson who I have seen in Scary Movie 2.The film is about Mark who plays Coles, a wanna be director who meets Sam, a simple girl who lives with her roommate, Thea, played by Robertson. Coles, Sam, and sometimes Thea hook up, but it is Sam and Coles that truly fall for each other. But when Coles goes too far with Thea, Sam breaks it off with him. They meet again ten years later coincidentally and despite Coles being in a serious relationship, questions if he still has feelings for Sam.It's an interesting movie, but I did like it's true honest drama and human emotions. Although I felt like I could easily see these situations on a talk show, it still wasn't a bad movie to watch.6/10

Robert Clarke A tale of 3 twenty somethings who meet at a party and end up having a threesome.two of the trilogy end up in an "open relationship", until feelings for each other get in the way and they end up drifting apart.fast forward 10 years and the trio meet up again, their lives have taken them on different routes but this meeting makes them realise that they never really moved on from each other, and this could have a devastating effect on their "new" lives unless they come to terms with their feelings and sort out some problems that first surfaced years before.Watchable relationship yarn, but the real problem is that all the characters are quite dislikable therefore its hard to feel sorry for any of them, and this reflects on the film - making it hard to enjoy and making it impossible care one bit about anyone involved in it.

Ryan Ellis 'XX/XY' is an above-average examination of love and relationships, through college and then into adulthood. Mark Ruffalo, Maya Strange, and Kathleen Robertson star. They're 3 college kids who open the film with a menage a trois, then 10 years later when they've matured and changed. Or have they? Some characters seem to swap personas while another suffers from the Hamlet complex (ie. never being able to make up his mind).Petra Wright (Ruffalo's grown-up love interest) has a powerful speech which serves as the climax of the film. We find out that she was always just as in the know about things as we are. Both she and Ruffalo play this scene perfectly.When it's all over, this proves to be a successful character study. The characters seem real (and it doesn't hurt that they're all attractive) and they even reminded me of the characters in Mike Nichols' 'Carnal Knowledge'. Films like these seem to say that sex BETTER be fun if it's going to be worth all the trouble it brings.Plus, director Austin Chick never goes more than 10 minutes without a shot of Mark Ruffalo's bare behind. Any potential werewolves in sight would've turned into their hairiest selves with all the full moons in this movie.