Jerry Maguire (1996)

Nominee

Okay, I feel kinda silly starting with this one but it is what I watched last night...Here we have Tom Cruise...Tom Cruise...tom cruise...TOM CRUISE!!!!...I don't really think he can act and for some odd reason I don't care...okay we all know the reason...and I am not usually this shallow but come on HE IS HOT...anyway then we have Renee Zellweger which usually when she opens her mouth to speak to me it sounds like nails on a chalk board but in this movie her voice is not as grating and then there is some cute kid who I recognize only from some ad in the 90's for a movie about a kid dracula...or something like that I never saw it I just remember the TV Spot...Anyway
Jerry Maguire is about a man who works for a sports agency gets disenchanted by the way its run and one night drunkenly writes a mission statement, (not a memo), about how impersonal the buisness is. He then gets fired but then proceeds to begin his own company with one client, Tidwell, one partner, Dorothy Boyd, and one gold fish...Guess what after much trouble finding his connection to both...EVERYTHING WORKS OUT!!! Tidwell gets the giant contract and single mother Dorothy was had at hello... and we get a little glimpse that the company will grow. yay!!!

This is a romantic comedy...its cute...it makes you laugh...you get that warm cuddly feeling inside...but honestly why is this nominated for best picture. Its great fun, and if you think that good movies are made by straight up entertainment its there but it does not offer what I expect from a GREAT movie...I was not swept away by an interesting score...I was not enlightened into plot motifs by any insinuations from shooting angles...I saw no orginality besides the fact that it is a chick flick that is over 2 hours long...especially when it was up as the same year as Fargo...I expected a little more

Overall: Enjoyable. Should it have been nominated for best picture? No. Bright side: I got to look at Tom Cruise and be charmed by cute little kids...I only suggest this movie if you already know you like this sort of thing.

Thats a wrap