a good marriage

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180994

a good marriage was a fine film in its own right, but for some reason, all i want to do is to compare it to other works that have something in common with it.

like how about mr brooks? the most amazing thing about mr brooks is that it made me appreciate kevin costner as an actor.  well, that and dane cook getting killed with a shovel.  boy, i could watch that part over and over.

or how about mulholland drive?  mulholland drive was like 70% dream sequence, while a good marriage turned out to be about 2% dream sequence, so the comparison is perhaps not apt.  however, while mulholland drive was at first glance 0% dream, a good marriage could quite plausibly have been almost completely a dream.  i am pretty sure that they put a little dream sequence near the beginning to insert that ambiguity, and it most definitely worked on me.  if the whole movie had turned out to be a dream, i would not have been surprised.  angry, perhaps, but not surprised.  anyway, the point is that the suspense came from that uncertainty.  was it really him, did he know she knew, etc.

then, of course, there is gi joe.  i like comparing things to gi joe because it invariably makes the thing being compared look really, really, really, ridiculously good.  crazy good.  by that standard, a good marriage is about a 20 star movie.

a good marriage gets three bloody thumbprints in a slow motion exploding dream sequence.