Anthony of The Daily Rotation wrote, "When I initially heard about the upcoming drama, 50/50, I was instantly intrigued by everything that it represented. The story line looked like it was going to be solid, the cast looked to be superb and to top it all off – it looked like it was going to be hilarious. Some might find me cynical when I can use the word “hilarious” towards a cancer related issue but the trailer for 50/50 made it seem like we would see both “hilarious” and cancer colliding on the big screen. I mean how can it not be hilarious when you have Joseph Gordon-Levitt standing in front of Seth Rogen about to shave his head using Rogen’s “body” clippers. Regardless of how you take the trailer, hilarious or not, it still seemed to have the capability to grasp you and not let you go. Like I said, I was instantly intrigued with the movie on many different levels."
A powerfully empathetic performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt saves 50/50 from succumbing to the annoying presence of Seth Rogen and his hophead propagandizing.
Jeremy of We Got This Covered wrote, "One of the best films of 2011 came in the form of a cancer dramedy directed by young filmmaker Jonathan Levine and starring Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. 50/50 hits all the right notes as it walks the fine line of being a hilarious comedy and an emotional drama. It’s authentic, honest and it makes for one hell of a film. The film is anchored by its heart-felt performance by JGL, but Rogen, Kendrick and the rest of the supporting cast help make the ensemble team feel just as important. Levine knows how to find the strengths in his actors and shape-shift the film into a cluster of emotions."
Movies Hate You Too writes:
This week sees the release of several of last falls bigger financial or critical hits; the Rock'em Sock'em Robots film, a cancer 'comedy', and a horror film that hits Blu-ray surprisingly quickly. As far as catalog releases go there are films from Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, and films starring the late, great Richard Pryor available for the first time ever in HD plus a monster movie classic gets the royal treatment from the Criterion Collection.
I can't wait to get my copy of Real Steel. Out of this weeks releases that's the one I'm interested in. That was such a good movie. I went in expecting to like it some but ended up loving it and going back to see it again.
I'm kinda "eh" about Real Steel, so I won't be buying that one. Though Netflix did ship it out to me today, so I'll have it tomorrow.
On that note, I'm much more interested in 50/50 and Paranormal Activity 3. Both of those I bought (from Amazon) so should have those this week too.
I do like the Blu-ray releases of the Hitchcock movies too.
Did they bundle up the best of Hitchcock or just several of his movies? If Psycho, The Birds, and Rear Window are in that it would be great.
No it's no bundle. They just did individual Blu-ray releases on a few of his movies: Notorious, Rebecca and Spellbound.
Can't wait to see this one!
great movie! nice review also