A Fyoo Movie Reviews
Little Miss Sunshine: Everyone I love loved this movie. What is wrong with me? I just have to say... at this point in my life, with the car that I drive and the house that I live in and the lamp on my bedside table, despair is not that funny. Remove the faint hope of redemption and you remove the last hope of comedy. I will admit to laughing loudly and repeatedly. However, the painful and unlikely situations these characters were drilled into by the steely grip of irony on their sketchily drawn elbows... ultimately left me feeling sad. Laughing at the middle. Sad and guilty at the end.
The other thing that upset me about the movie is that Toni Collette's character is supposed to be the kind of normal, likeable one, caught in this odd situation and odd family. But the angsty teenager got it right. She was supposed to protect her children. Both of them. How do you let your small daughter take SOLE direction for a talent show from your porn addict father-in-law who's snuffing coke in your bathroom, WITHOUT CHECKING that her "routine" was appropriate? How do you let your son reach the age of fifteen or whatever without KNOWING the important information about him that she for plot purposes did not know? And are you really so dumb as to think your waxy husband's going to hit it big? So dumb that you're really that shocked when for plot purposes you need to be? And if you can't drive a stick when the journey begins, why do you try halfway through? Indeed.
The New Pride and Prejudice: Two things wrong with this movie. One is that Mr. Bingley was played as a gay man with no brain. Two is that Donald Sutherland was in the movie, and playing one of my favorite characters in the story, Mr. Bennett. Well. Beyond those two things, I loved it. I loved Keira Knightley as Elizabeth, and whoever the rest of them were as whoever they were. TWO problems: gay Bingley and the presence of Sutherland Senior. Otherwise completely incandescent (as the movie says) happiness. During the opening, I felt like I was unwrapping a beautiful present. And it did not disappoint.
She looked absolutely SMASHING in the little empire waist Jane Auston outfits too.
House of Wax: So dumb. Paris did not do well. Not scary.
Kicking and Screaming: With Ben Stiller and Christopher Walken as Will Farrell and Robert Duvall, this movie would have been great. As it was, neither of them could figure out who their characters were. DUMB.
Lord of War: Nicholas Cage did GREAT in this movie. I keep not liking him in movies, ever since The Rock. However, this was really a great performance. I didn't really understand the movie at all, but my husband seemed to enjoy it. There was a lot of... moral dilemma action. Unpleasant.
Syriana: No idea. Ridiculous. Tried to fall asleep immediately and succeeded about 20 minutes in. Another one the husband enjoyed that left me mystified and annoyed. I gave up on it as soon as Matt Damon's innocent child bit it in the pool.
posted by Lostcheerio @ 11:47 PM
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4 Comments:
i felt the same way for all those films except Little Miss Sunshine, although it did make me sad at points too.
You're the very first person I've seen who didn't like LMS. I've been wanting to see it, but haven't gotten to yet, so now I'm even more curious after reading your review.
I mostly loved the latest P&P too. My few gripes were similar but not quite identical. I never thought about Bingley seeming gay (although I can sure see that now that you say it!) but I thought the actor played him like he had an IQ about the same as his shoe size. I didn't HATE DS as Mr. Bennett, but I didn't think quite right either. He wasn't English enough or snarky enough. I mostly liked KK as Lizzy, but now and then she came across as a bit too modern to me so that I'd suddenly see her as Kiera instead of Elizabeth and it would snap me out of the story for a few moments. And I didn't like that tacked on thing at the end with Lizzy and Darcy making post-wedding goo-goo eyes at each other on the balcony - soooo sappy and un-Jane Austen. I'd much rather have left the honeymoon to my own vivid and raunchy imagination. :-)
I DID love how they showed the physical attraction between Elizabeth and Darcy in subtle ways throughout the movie - something most versions gloss over but it's something that would have to be there for the story to work.
I liked it enough to buy it on DVD for my movie collection.
I haven't seen any of the others you mentioned.
Not entirely true. You love me and I did not like that or any other of the movies you mention because I didn't see them. I don't watch a movie unless I already know it's going to be madly exciting or sickeningly funny as in stuff like the deer in the car in Tommy. Haute comedy like that. No cute movies. No crybaby movies. No movies that will make me afraid to go upstairs at night. No mushy movies.
the only one i have seen is P&P and i agree 1million% about the beginning being like opening a present. rob and i were ready to move there b/c it was lovely and lush and just like heaven. i've not seen any other renditions and (blasphemy ahead) i've not READ it...i am madly in love with Kiera Knightly. IN LOVE. i will HAPPPPILY marry her b/c she's beautiful and her smile is just beautiful and glowing.
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