So I watched two movies recently, both were sort of panned by critics yet I happened to enjoy them. First I watched the movie version of Water for Elephants. It was entertaining if predictable, you could say sweet but not much more than that. I don't know about the book, I have not read it. I was also somewhat creeped out by Reese Witherspoon and Pattison as a romantic match. Meh.
The same can be said for the second movie, Larry Crowne. However, I thoroughly enjoyed Larry Crowne. I thought Tom Hanks was delightful and identified some with Julia Roberts' character. I found myself wanting to excuse the movie against the sharp criticism it received with "it was an entertaining movie". Of course, there are frustrations with using that argument, as I have gotten the same argument many times before when asking somebody, "how can you watch this?"
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