Pointless
Added 5/30/2009
I hate to pan something that Dennis Quaid (one of my favorite actors) has done but I really have to. Oh, he was fine, as usual. All of the actors did a good job but the problem is that the movie has no point other than that sometimes bigger companies buy up smaller ones and then make poor business decisions. So, like, so what?
The movie was really about the effect it all had on Quaid and his daughter, which wound up being just about nothing. The new, young guy comes in, takes over Quaid's job, Quaid gets demoted, other people get fired, and the young guy starts having an affair with Quaid's daughter. Eventually though the young guy has to trust Quaid. They make a big business deal which turns the corner for the company. The young guy seems to actually be an OK kind of person but then the Big Company decides to sell off the smaller one. The young guy gets canned, Quaid gets promoted to his old job again, the daughter dumps the young guy, and the young guy winds up jogging on a beach in LA, looking for another job. The guys who got canned in the takeover get rehired and everything goes back to the way it was.
Quaid offers the young guy a job but he declines. The young guy meets the daughter in the elevator on the way out. They exchange uncomfortable greetings. She goes on her way. End of story.
You wind up feeling like, "why did I waste 2 hours on this thing?" It wasn't a Tragedy. It wasn't a Comedy. It wasn't uplifting. It didn't have any moral. It was like somebody needed to make a movie, any movie, so they hired Quaid, got a couple of writers, threw together a script over a weekend and away they went. I'm glad I only paid a couple of dollars for this movie.
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Great movie
Added 1/13/2009
This is a great film. I added it to my collection because I feel it's entertaining enough to watch again and again.
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2.5 stars out of 4
Added 12/22/2008
The Bottom Line:
In Good Company is a rather forgettable movie; it doesn't do itself any favors by eschewing the primary romantic plot halfway through in favor of male bonding between Topher Grace and an annoying Dennis Quaid.
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You will love this
Added 6/30/2008
This is a thoroughly enjoyable movie, from start to finish. Perfect acting, direction, dialogue, shots, editing. The music was icing on the cake. In a way, it sort of reminded me of "The Graduate", back in the day, with Dustin Hoffman. Not in the story, but the feel, and lessons learned. Light hearted, but serious. A film an adult will appreciate. Highly recommended.
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Morality lessons in a feel good movie
Added 6/22/2008
Today's Hollywood produces movie after movie about humanity's negativity and our inevitable dystopian future. If not that, then the movie is an obvious homage to something so outlandish that it's not to be taken realistically. In Good Company, however, takes the opposite approach, showing genuine familial, work, and romantic relationships. With nearly no twists or surprises, almost no exaggeration whatsoever, this movie delivers as intended.
Dan Foreman (Dennis Quaid) is the director of marketing for a company being purchased by a multination conglomerate. Corporate restructuring brings about the obvious changes. As a result, most of Dan's team is fired, and his position is usurped by Carter Duryea (Topher Grace) - as the young, brash, conceited yet overmatched, buzz-word spouting whiz-kid - making Dan the second fiddle. Just like a formulaic black-white movie, where the white character inevitably learns to dance from the black character, Carter soon learns from the wiser, experienced, and worldly sage of marketing. Just think of Dan as Miyagi and Carter as Daniel-San; it only takes one good butt-kicking, literally in this movie, to realize how incompetent and unprepared you are when faced with an experienced adversary.
When Carter meets Dan's georgous, college-bound daughter Alex (Scarlett Johansson), sparks fly, adding yet another juxtaposed subplot amidst the struggles of life, love, and corporate advancement.
Overall it's a decent, albeit predictable, somewhat bland movie that if nothing more, provides a reason to ogle Johansson and see Quaid turn in a great performance.
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Pointless
Added 5/30/2009
I hate to pan something that Dennis Quaid (one of my favorite actors) has done but I really have to. Oh, he was fine, as usual. All of the actors did a good job but the problem is that the movie has no point other than that sometimes bigger companies buy up smaller ones and then make poor business decisions. So, like, so what?
The movie was really about the effect it all had on Quaid and his daughter, which wound up being just about nothing. The new, young guy comes in, takes over Quaid's job, Quaid gets demoted, other people get fired, and the young guy starts having an affair with Quaid's daughter. Eventually though the young guy has to trust Quaid. They make a big business deal which turns the corner for the company. The young guy seems to actually be an OK kind of person but then the Big Company decides to sell off the smaller one. The young guy gets canned, Quaid gets promoted to his old job again, the daughter dumps the young guy, and the young guy winds up jogging on a beach in LA, looking for another job. The guys who got canned in the takeover get rehired and everything goes back to the way it was.
Quaid offers the young guy a job but he declines. The young guy meets the daughter in the elevator on the way out. They exchange uncomfortable greetings. She goes on her way. End of story.
You wind up feeling like, "why did I waste 2 hours on this thing?" It wasn't a Tragedy. It wasn't a Comedy. It wasn't uplifting. It didn't have any moral. It was like somebody needed to make a movie, any movie, so they hired Quaid, got a couple of writers, threw together a script over a weekend and away they went. I'm glad I only paid a couple of dollars for this movie.
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Great movie
Added 1/13/2009
This is a great film. I added it to my collection because I feel it's entertaining enough to watch again and again.
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2.5 stars out of 4
Added 12/22/2008
The Bottom Line:
In Good Company is a rather forgettable movie; it doesn't do itself any favors by eschewing the primary romantic plot halfway through in favor of male bonding between Topher Grace and an annoying Dennis Quaid.
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