A funny review of The Day After Tomorrow

The characters in the movie would have to be massively deepened to be called shallow. The major conflict is that of the Quaid character, who has missed much of his son's upbringing owing to his penchant for jumping crevasses on remote ice shelves. His wife's anger at this I rate at 137 MilliPeeves, where one Peeve equals the feeling you get then the coffee shop runs out of your favourite creamer, and you have to use your second favourite. This is understated acting.

Somebody's being mean to my secret boyfriend, Robert Rodriquez? Let me attem! ej, where did you see that reference?

This is sometimes a bad thing, as it means I was unable to take a pass on The Phantom.

Yes. If only the script had been as magnificent as the costumes and sets.

I liked De-lovely. The theater was basically full of me, gay men, and silver-haired couples. But I do agree that the framing device wasn't always successful. But the "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" number killed me. I'm such a sucker for scenes like that, where people from someone's past come back, young and beautiful and healthy, to greet them.

I also got sniffly when Ashley Judd's character died, and I was sitting there refusing to cry, and then they started playing "Every Time We Say Goodbye", which just wan't fair. *sniffle*

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Naturally stunning actress Halle Berry has slammed women who undergo cosmetic surgery and finds the whole process "terrifying". The Oscar-winner made the comments as she joined her Catwoman co-star Sharon Stone at a press conference at London's Dorchester yesterday, ahead of the film's British premiere. Berry says, "We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth. I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. I see women in their thirties pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope -once you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh God, I've got to do the other side.' There is this plastic, copycat look evolving and that's frightening to me. It's really insane and I feel sad that's what society is doing to women." Stone, who has recently denied she had plastic surgery after reports suggested she had gone under the knife, adds, "You have to do what makes you feel good."

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Um, you know, personally I liked Halle's natural nose a lot better. She had it done a long time ago, so I'm sure it doesn't fall under "fountain of youth." Still and all, pot? kettle?

edit: x-post with the link-wielding bon bon!

But the "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" number killed me. I'm such a sucker for scenes like that, where people from someone's past come back, young and beautiful and healthy, to greet them.

It struck me as somewhat cheesy, until the kids appeared. Then I got teary.

I also got sniffly when Ashley Judd's character died, and I was sitting there refusing to cry, and then they started playing "Every Time We Say Goodbye", which just wan't fair. *sniffle*

I got all teary at the scene right before she died, when they're sitting together at the piano and he's singing to her. I felt like I *should* be resenting having my emotions manipulated, but because Kevin Kline just blew me away in this role, it didn't feel manipulated at all.

Somebody's being mean to my secret boyfriend, Robert Rodriquez?

IIRC, he was forced out of the other project when he resigned from the Directors Guild after the whole "multiple directors" brouhaha over Sin City.

IIRC, he was forced out of the other project when he resigned from the Directors Guild after the whole "multiple directors" brouhaha over Sin City

Read this too quickly as Sim City. All I could think was "That would make one boring-ass movie."