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Kragar11/01/2014 11:08:30 am PDT

re: #54 Eventual Carrion

Off topic but about a movie. Anyone seen The Judge? Wife wants to go see it later this evening after the trick-r-treat’rs are done.

TIFF 2014 Review: ‘The Judge’

David Dobkin’s hopelessly maudlin and glacially paced drama The Judge is one part John Grisham thriller and one part James L. Brooks melodrama, two great tastes that taste absolutely abysmal together. The Judge the kind of movie you want to reach out and strangle.

The cheesy daddy issues and uncomfortable comic relief gags about incest and mentally-challenged siblings just don’t jibe with the otherwise deadly serious storyline about a hot shot lawyer (Robert Downey Jr.) forced to defend his bullheaded father (Robert Duvall), himself a small town judge, on a vehicular manslaughter charge… especially when it may turn out to be premeditated murder. It’s one thing to use a dramatic high concept as the backdrop for a story about a family reconnecting - heck, Luc Besson does it all the time - but The Judge makes the a-plot so severe that all the cheesy homespun small town b-plot feels insultingly out of place.