{"id":3799,"date":"2012-09-20T22:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2012-09-20T22:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:13:14","slug":"trouble-with-the-curve-has-plenty-of-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=3799","title":{"rendered":"TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE has plenty of problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nClint Eastwood and his monster career demands respect. The man is an acting icon from Dirty Harry to the Man with No Name and a powerhouse director who, for the last decade, has been working at clip that is rivaled only by Woody Allen\u2019s annual offerings.
\nSo it is out of respect that I begin my review for \u201cTrouble with the Curve\u201d focusing on the positive aspects of the film.
\n 1-\tThere is a nice, intimate scene where Clint visits his deceased wife\u2019s gravestone. He pours her a glass of beer, speaks of his woes and sings a gravel-soaked rendition of \u201cYou are My Sunshine\u201d. It\u2019s a great scene despite the fact that it involves Mr. Eastwood talking to another inanimate object. I teared up but please note that I am a wimp.
\n 2-\tJustin Timberlake and Amy Adams share enough chemistry to make their scenes watchable. This is despite the fact that there courtship rambles on and on with no concern for pacing. Sorry. The negative is starting to creep in and since the two decent things about \u201cTrouble with the Curve\u201d have been covered let us move forward.<\/p>\n

Mr. Eastwood swore back in 2008 that his turn in \u201cGrand Turino\u201d marked the end of his acting career. The role would have been a perfect swan song and he should have left well enough alone. But \u201cTrouble with the Curve\u201d is directed by Robert Lorenz, a man who has work at Clint\u2019s side since 1994 as both producer and assistant director and \u201cCurve\u201d marks his directorial debut. It would be no stretch to say that Clint has left thespian retirement to be in this movie out of loyalty and friendship. Unfortunately, the project is amateurish and plodding, proving that Mr. Lorenz makes a better sidekick than a leader.
\nClint plays Gus, a gnarled and weathered baseball scout who is losing his vision. It\u2019s pretty hard to watch a baseball game without eyes. His near-estranged daughter, Mickey (Adams), is a fast shuffling power-attorney who doesn\u2019t have a minute to spare. With her father ailing, she is forced to stop her life for awhile and go to his side. This forces her to confront her issues with him: Abandonment, Emotional Dysfunctions et. al. Old dogs, new tricks and all that jazz. Then Justin shows up for some romance subplot action and so forth.<\/p>\n

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\nEastwood\u2019s performance shows some rust and many scenes are plagued with a forced quality that does nothing to hide the soft nature of the material. This is something that would play nicely on ABC Family Channel but is not fit for the big screen. The only thing that elevates it is the cast who are only there to share some time with a legend. The movie meanders, goes nowhere and ends with one of the most ridiculous Hollywood endings in recent years.
\nIf this turns out to be the final Eastwood film, it is a shame. I purpose one more project for the man before he truly retires: A remake of \u201cMy Dinner with Andre\u201d starting Clint and Christian Bale\u2019s Batman. That would make my throat hurt just listening to it.
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Clint Eastwood and his monster career demands respect. The man is an acting icon from Dirty Harry to the Man with No Name and a powerhouse director who, for the last decade, has been working at clip that is rivaled only by Woody Allen\u2019s annual offerings. So it is out of respect that I begin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1285,2327,4516,11403,23306],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-amy-adams","tag-baseball-movies","tag-clint-eastwood","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-trouble-with-the-curve-review"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}