Green Book [DVD] [2018]

I was very surprised by this movie. I had not heard much about it when it was in the theaters and I only bought it because one of the employees at Best Buy recommended it. I'm very happy that I bought it.

This is what movie making should be like ALL the time. Good story, great acting. Very enjoyable film. I had never heard about the travel guide that this movie is named after. Nice bit of history to learn....

I highly recommend this movie in fact I’ve passed it around to my whole family & they all watched it with their kids my Mom LOVED it also, even my friends!!! A wonderful story about a African man & Italian man who at first seem awkward & then like magic it seems they become best of friends!! It’s the old saying don’t judge a book by its cover, there are so many layers to a person & they really get to know each other in that way, also it’s the time they live in.

Reading the description would not have sold me on this movie, it actually sounded very boring. But after reading the reviews on IMDb (8.2) and Rotten Tomatoes (78%), this rated far better than most movies. So I thought I would take a chance since it was on sale. Watching their relationship grow throughout the trip and how each changed the other really makes this a great movie. Even better as this is a true story that was only supposed to be told after the death of "Doc".

There isn't a person you wouldn't love if you could read their story. I tend to try and not speak in absolutes and there may or may not be some exceptions to this rule, but the point is an obvious one: all the races and people with different sexual orientations or different religious beliefs can get along once we really get to know one another; that we're not really all that different after all. That's all well and good, but it's also a tried and true formula that at least one Hollywood production trots out every awards season to try and make us all feel better about ourselves. One might think, given the current cultural climate, that any movie attempting to bring people together might immediately be dismissed as one party's agenda to corrupt another into actually having a conversation with a person of opposing views, but maybe that's ultimately why Green Book feels so good right now and ironically, so needed. There isn't a thing here you haven't heard or seen before and director Peter Farrelly (one half of the brother directing duo who brought us comedy classics like Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary, but also brought us Dumb & Dumber To and The Heartbreak Kid) directs with the eye of about as mainstream a filmmaker as it gets meaning there is nothing glaringly unique or interesting about the way in which he captures these events, but this does mean it will undoubtedly speak to a very large audience. There was some slight hope that Farrelly might utilize his experience in his years of making broad studio comedies to infuse the many predictable formulas this movie utilizes with a more striking tone or presence, but while taking on a project like this might have been a bold thing for the filmmaker to do given his past credits he alas decides to do nothing bold in the execution of this change in pace, but instead plays it right down the middle. Fortunately for Farrelly, the story has such a great inherent hook and given he's hired two more than capable talents to lead his film it hardly matters how he's saying what he wants to say as long as it's competent enough to capture how Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen are saying what they want to say. It's largely through these two performers that Green Book transcends the calculations of a movie such as itself, eclipsing every predictable note it plays that could have so easily rung false to become something genuinely endearing; a true crowd-pleaser in the least cynical and most delightful of ways.

Great story between two men on the road taking a journey and getting to know each other. Not to mention, a great look at how rough an African-American in entertainment had it in South back then. Enjoyed it from beginning to end.

There hasn't been a great movie made in a few years... THIS ONE IS THE BEST! If you haven't seen it YOU MUST! Will have you laughing, shaking your head and tears. Great performances Viggo and Mahershala!!!

Bought 4k smart tv this Christmas and tried out one of our first 4k movies on it. Was a great buy for both. bought both around Christmas time.