This movie was a stultifying combination of boring and depressing, leaving me unable to decide whether I would like to take a nap or a cyanide tablet.
Oh yes, poor Duchess of Devonshire, I feel terribly bad for your incredibly pained life. Made possible, by the way, by legions of maids, servants, and various other peons who spent their lives toiling in abject, desperate poverty so you could have fancy clothes, gourmet feasts, shiny carriage horses, clean bedpans, and every other thing under the sun while you never lifted a goddamn finger. It was so hard to be you.
P.S. Don't bother waiting for the blooper reel.
October 28, 2008
October 24, 2008
CC: The Duchess
Good and Plenty:
~Very well acted. I appreciated that I actually saw Keira's character as very different from her other period piece characters. Ralph Fiennes was awesome, as always--I felt an interesting mixture of detest and sympathy for his character.
~Costumes are awesome, as expected.
~The music was purdy! Which is more than I can say for a lot of movies (I'm looking at you, Appaloosa).
~WAY BETTER than Marie Antoinette, which takes place in a similar time period. Possibly because I like Keira Knightley better than Kirsten Dunst. And also because whatsherface wasn't directing this one and adding weird ass music and shit. Still no beheadings, though...
~The guy that played Keira's love interest (Dominic Cooper--thanks IMDB!) was strangely cute. Also, his character is totally the namesake for Earl Grey tea (thanks, Wikipedia!). So that's awesome. OH! and Keira and Ralph were Devonshire! Coincidence? (I am now craving cream tea--thanks, movie.)
Sour Patch Kids:
~This movie was kinda sad, but I have to admit that due to certain hormonal factors I was probably more emotional about it than I would have been otherwise. Do not see this if you want to be in a joyful mood afterward.
Overall, I liked it ;) It wasn't slow and plodding like some historical dramas tend to be.
~Very well acted. I appreciated that I actually saw Keira's character as very different from her other period piece characters. Ralph Fiennes was awesome, as always--I felt an interesting mixture of detest and sympathy for his character.
~Costumes are awesome, as expected.
~The music was purdy! Which is more than I can say for a lot of movies (I'm looking at you, Appaloosa).
~WAY BETTER than Marie Antoinette, which takes place in a similar time period. Possibly because I like Keira Knightley better than Kirsten Dunst. And also because whatsherface wasn't directing this one and adding weird ass music and shit. Still no beheadings, though...
~The guy that played Keira's love interest (Dominic Cooper--thanks IMDB!) was strangely cute. Also, his character is totally the namesake for Earl Grey tea (thanks, Wikipedia!). So that's awesome. OH! and Keira and Ralph were Devonshire! Coincidence? (I am now craving cream tea--thanks, movie.)
Sour Patch Kids:
~This movie was kinda sad, but I have to admit that due to certain hormonal factors I was probably more emotional about it than I would have been otherwise. Do not see this if you want to be in a joyful mood afterward.
Overall, I liked it ;) It wasn't slow and plodding like some historical dramas tend to be.
October 6, 2008
How to Ruin a Seemingly Unruinable Movie
Cast Renee Zellwegger in it.
Use the score from City Slickers.
And try to make it half rom-com.
Fuck you, Appaloosa.
Use the score from City Slickers.
And try to make it half rom-com.
Fuck you, Appaloosa.
CC: Appaloosa
AKA: Why Hollywood Should Stop Hiring Renee Zellweger.
Good & Plenty:
~Viggo! Despite his mustache.
~The part where Renee's character asked Ed Harris' character, "You trust him more than me?" and he said "Yes," and then it cut to the next scene.
Sour Patch Kids:
~What happened to Renee Zellweger's face? I'm aware that she almost always looks squinty and pouty, but it looked...PLASTIC. Bad makeup? Bad lift? Who knows.
~The plot was dumb. About half way through the bad guy was on trial and I was like, "That's it?" It wasn't, unfortunately. I think it would have been better to have had Jeremy Irons thwarting Viggo and Ed Harris and finally getting his come-up-ins in the end.
~Stupid Renee Zellweger.
~I did not understand the point of half the plot devices.
For a movie starring Viggo Mortensen, and a Western, this sucked. BOO HISS.
Good & Plenty:
~Viggo! Despite his mustache.
~The part where Renee's character asked Ed Harris' character, "You trust him more than me?" and he said "Yes," and then it cut to the next scene.
Sour Patch Kids:
~What happened to Renee Zellweger's face? I'm aware that she almost always looks squinty and pouty, but it looked...PLASTIC. Bad makeup? Bad lift? Who knows.
~The plot was dumb. About half way through the bad guy was on trial and I was like, "That's it?" It wasn't, unfortunately. I think it would have been better to have had Jeremy Irons thwarting Viggo and Ed Harris and finally getting his come-up-ins in the end.
~Stupid Renee Zellweger.
~I did not understand the point of half the plot devices.
For a movie starring Viggo Mortensen, and a Western, this sucked. BOO HISS.
October 5, 2008
Oops.
After reading Lady B's Ghost Town post I realized that, oops, I totally forgot to blog about Burn After Reading, which I saw about a month ago. WITH Lady B and Blogtastic. Apparently they forgot too.
Things I remember liking about this movie:
~The dialogue
~The twists and turns!
~The CIA guys
~Brad Pitt (and his character)
~George Clooney (but not his character).
Things I remember not liking about this movie:
~All the (SPOILER ALERT) unnecessary death!
~With the exception of Brad Pitt's character, pretty much everyone is a big fat jerk.
Things I remember liking about this movie:
~The dialogue
~The twists and turns!
~The CIA guys
~Brad Pitt (and his character)
~George Clooney (but not his character).
Things I remember not liking about this movie:
~All the (SPOILER ALERT) unnecessary death!
~With the exception of Brad Pitt's character, pretty much everyone is a big fat jerk.
October 3, 2008
Ghost Town
This movie is excellent. See if you can guess which scene made my family laugh really hard when the rest of the theater was shocked into silence. It's not hard. I really wish I could've seen this movie with Lady Who's Never Seen a Movie Before. She would have been utterly floored by the "twists" the rest of us saw coming from a mile away. Have we told you about her yet? She's the lady who's never seen a movie before, and goes to her first movie and every standard plot contrivance is a genuinely new thing for her and she expresses her shock loudly from the row behind us. I love her. And this movie! THREE THUMBS UP!
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