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How did folks around here feel about The Good Girl?
Well. I saw it in the theatre, which is when Jennifer Aniston was getting all kinds of hype and praise for her amazing acting skillz, etc. So I was expecting something more than what it was.
Not a bad movie, by any means, but it didn't live up to the hype it was getting at the time that I saw it.
it was nice to see her conflicted and sad and pathetic
"This is the story of a girl, who was put upon ..."
I liked her performance too. Very closed off and desperate. I also liked the creepy Dead Calm kind of an ending, even if the Good Girl ending was meant to be a bit more upbeat.
I saw it the day after watching Chicago, the day after watching The Hours. So my reaction was tainted by 3 consecutive nights of John C Reilly the whining cuckold. Aniston was good, Gyllenhall was Darko (has he ever not been Darko? Darko in a flood! Darko in a supermarket!)
I really enjoyed it. Loved Aniston. After 10 years of tv and movie roles that bordered on the same, it was nice to see her conflicted and sad and pathetic.
I think she was all those in Object of My Affection too, though it was at least billed as a comedy. But her performance was much better in The Good Girl.
See, IMHO, her performance in Object of my Affection rang too close to the period of "Josh-U-AH" on the show.
I loved the Good Girl.
"I'm named after Catcher in The Rye"
"So your name's what, Catcher?"
And I think the season with that Joshua thing was a high point for Friends. But then, "Yemen," still makes me giggle, so...
I just joined Netflix. I couldn't take it anymore. And the first movies arrived in the mail today. It's all so very exciting. Not that I can really afford it, but whatever. We'll see how this free two week thing goes. Or at least I will. And you guys might, if I decide to share.
Whatcha get?! Whatcha get?!
Well, I got "Mean Girls," because I saw the first three quarters of it on the flight home from London, but then they turned off our tv's, and I really needed to know the end. And I got "Ella Enchanted" because I like that sort of movie. And then I got "The Punisher" because I remembered that the trailer I saw made me cry.
Of course, a Campbell's soup commercial made me cry (well, it was the foster children one! How do you NOT cry?). And laughing makes me cry. And strong breezes make me cry. So that is perhaps not the vote of authority it could be, but whatever.
I have seen none of those movies, but I've heard good things about Mean Girls, and Nova likes Ella Enchanted (but mostly for the Anne Hathaway), and I think ita saw The Punisher. I don't recall hearing much good about it.
Have you seen the Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday and Parent Trap movies? They're both really good, far better than I'd expected.