Apparently I decided that things have been too happy in my movie viewing lately. I clicked on the Oscar nominated Silver Linings Playbook in my Netflix queue. First things first, this is mostly watching two mentally ill characters make bad decision after bad decision. Some of it is comical, some of it is touching, but mostly it is sad. But let's make one thing clear, Bradly Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are amazing in their roles. Robert DeNiro is even good.
This movie is amazingly written, directed and performed. One of my favorite parts was that throughout the film Jennifer Lawrence's character chases Bradley Cooper's character, figuratively and literally. Near the end of the movie those roles reverse, figuratively and literally. Another good thing about the movie is that Bradley Cooper's character lost a ton of weight by working out, so that is inspiring a little bit. Although it is hard to imagine fat Bradley Cooper. Although when the movie got a little too heavy handed and dark, it was fun to picture Bradley Cooper's character replaced with Rocket Racoon from Guardians of the Galaxy (who Bradley Cooper voiced). I would actually like to see a reedited version of this movie with a CGI Rocket. That would make this movie much more watchable. Don't get me wrong, I thought this movie was very well done, I just don't ever want to see it again.
And speaking of bad decisions, I weighed myself today after a very questionable weekend and it was bad news. Up a pound and a half. So the scale again reads 301. This probably makes me more sad than the movie. I thought I was going to get under 300, which is psychologically a huge goal to conquer. Now I have taken a big step backwards.
Overall Silver Linings Playbook gets a 280 out of 301.
Days: 19
Movies: 15
Minutes: 1508
Miles: 82.6
Pounds: 4
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