Monday Movie Mania - Here

First of all, I recognize that Here won't be everyone's cup of tea. It's a bittersweet look at life, not a slam bang, explosions, and man fu action flick. Nevertheless, it hit home with DH and me because we became the oldest generation in each of our families two years ago The inevitability that life ends with death of the individual hurts, but the understanding that life will go on is satisfying on a different level.

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PROS
1) Robert Zemeckis does something a little different by showing a single place on Earth through roughly 65 million years. To paraphrase Doctor Who, Zemeckis somehow makes sense of the wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff.

2) The aging/de-aging of the actors wasn't as distracting as I feared it would be.

3) The chesmistry of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright hasn't faded a bit.

4) Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly were simply adorable playing Tom's parents.

5) I have a feeling history will appreciate this movie, much like It's a Wonderful Life was disparaged at its release, but lauded by future generations.


CONS
1) I actually would have liked to see more of William Franklin and the indigenous couple. Their lives were used to punctuate certain events in Richard (Hanks) and Margaret's (Wright) lives, but I would have liked to see some of the differences as well.

2) The pacing was slow at times, but I'm not sure if it was my expectations or an actual problem with the film.


Overall, Here is a movie that doesn't spoonfeed it's audiences, and that's probably the reason I love it. I give it 9 out of 10 stars.