It's easy, if one only ever has to suffer a few times a year the no-budget, no-talent indies dumped on one-week NY runs and burned onto screener discs, to have a charmed view of what constitutes a bad film. Truth be told, with the number of films produced domestically exploding in recent years thanks to mass proliferation of acceptable-quality, cheap DV, it's a good bet that the vast majority of American movies made each year now consist of films made by people with little to no experience, often no real ambition or even point of view, and no discernible talent. Even those of us who only ever see about five or six of these a year are confronted with stunted…

Matthew fuckin' McConaughey as Ron fuckin' Woodroof a cowboy-bigot-homophobic-party-animal who becomes a pioneer in the treatment of AIDS after his own diagnosis. Wasted-Hollywood-pussy. A sad-face clown. Shocking the shit out of yourself. Shocking-fuckin'-news. Nothing can kill Ron Woodroof in 30-fuckin'-days. A trailer-park-orgy. Elektra's cardboard acting. Alienation by your so-called-friends. Back the fuck off Tinkerbell. Scoring a lifeline in a strip club. Handsome in a Texas-hick-white-trash kind of way. Rayon doesn't bite. Preferring to die with your boots on. A little-white-lie to the FDA. An unlikely business partner. The bar you never thought you would visit. Starting up a new club. Global travels. A big-as-fuck cellphone. The fuckin' IRS. A dinner date with the good doctor. Feeling human again. A total-fuckin'-bullshit…

My mom is sitting on the couch watching this right now, reacting to everything she is seeing. When McConaughey has his 3rd trip to the hospital, she utters "oh, that's hard" about life with AIDS. When he decides to leave the hospital in disgust, walking down the hallway with his open gown flapping about showing his cheeks she giggles. She laughs quite a bit whenever Jared Leto gives him a good dressing-down, and she utters "good for you" when McConaughey makes his former friend shake Leto's hand in the grocery store. She is glued to the screen, trying to eat something or other out of a bowl, not daring to look down too much at her spoon for fear of…

”There ain’t nothing out there that can kill fuckin’ Ron Woodroof in 30 days.”

From being just another actor whose career seemed to be getting nowhere and was risking fading into the horizon after an overdose of romantic comedies, a dramatic turnaround happened with The Lincoln Lawyer and he has not looked back ever since. It would have been an unpardonable waste of talent had he been typecast in rom-coms for the rest of his life. Half his career has already vaporized being in mediocre to averagely good films and now he is hungry as ever. He is certainly on a spree to prove his worth and mettle.

I was totally in awe with his saucy, smoothly dangerous and extremely…

Film #63 of Make me watch your favourite. Recommended by Piper.

Dallas Buyers Club isn't an exceptional film. It's fine. Its plot safely remains within the boundaries of the based on a true story/biopic realms, making it neither thought provoking or offensive. And that's perfectly fine as Vallée's strong and solid direction manages to avoid melodrama and keeps it refreshingly straight, never forcefully trying to evoke a reaction from his audience and truly focusing on telling the story and the characters in it.

It's solid entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. And then two actors come along and just raise the film to a completely different level.

Now, Tom Hanks probably ruined depicting AIDS in movies for most of his colleagues…

Dallas Buyers Club is an incredibly life-changing film. It's not only about battling AIDS, but also enjoying little things in life. Despite the miserable feeling going through the film, it never turns into a pitiful experience.

Matthew McConaughey just changed beyond recognition. He is absolutely mesmerizing. His character has a very poor lifestyle, got nothing to lose and is basically at his lowest point. And Matthew captures every aspect of Ron Woodroof brilliantly. He could have been the only highlight of the film if not for Jared Leto. This man went the extra mile and almost starved himself to the point where it became dangerous. Dallas Buyers Club can actually be the best example of what happens when both actors…