Ilona Costa Bianchi ,'The Girl in Question'
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Brotherhood of the Wolf was awfully pretty. And didn't make a lick of sense. It was like, Peter Greenaway went French and applied a bit of restraint wrt grotesquerie.
Stage Beauty is getting lukewarm-to-bad reviews, which saddens me because the whole genderfuck of a premise sounded really interesting.
Stage Beauty is getting lukewarm-to-bad reviews
Liz Smith seemed to love it in her column this morning. Not that she's a film reviewer or anything...
Have just finished watching Party Monster.
What a ginormous piece of crap. How they could take such interesting and intriguing material and turn it into complete crap is beyond me. Oh wait - it might have something to do with Macauly Culkin and Seth Green running around acting like giant flaming queers. And I mean that in every horrible, stereotypical sense that there is. Michael Alig and James St James *were* giant flaming queers. They were the Club Kids. It's who they were. But MC and SG aren't and couldn't even pretend halfway decently that they were. I wanted to smack them both. Wilmer Valderama was good and they completely wasted Wilson Cruz-who was the MAIN reason I wanted to see it.
Blech. I am so dissapointed.
I saw the documentary on that case a few years ago, and so figured I didn't need to see the adapted version. Glad to hear that was a good decision—I'd prefer to avoid anything that would diminish my affection for Seth.
What can I watch to get it back?
I saw the documentary and read the articles and that's why I wanted to see it. I have not read the book by James St James.
But I have to blame this on acting choices and/or direction. It was a cariacature of these people, not a realistic portrayal, which you NEED TO HAVE IF YOU SAY BASED ON A TRUE STORY in the beginning.
Aimee, if you haven't seen Rat Race, it's an enjoyable film and Seth contributes his share of the goodness. (Double the "enjoyable" part if It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World is one of your favorites.)
Were there any reviews titled "It's a Rat, Rat, Rat, Rat World"?
Cause there should have been.
I didn't like Rat Race. Seth and Breckin were amazing, but at least two race threads needed to be dropped, and the one with Cuba Gooding Jr on its head from a great height.
and the one with Cuba Gooding Jr on its head from a great height
I'll half agree. Get rid of the referee-error part, keep the visual image of the Lucy impersonators.
But the Seth parts, especially the business with the cows? Oh, god, I laughed so hard I hurt all the next day.
I can't even say Rat Race was a great movie, but parts of it were hysterically funny.