I saw
Pretty Persuasion
last night.
It was interesting. For the first 2/3 of the movie, I was in love with it - it was brilliantly evil, scatchingly hilarious. The last 1/3 became rather overwrought, unfortunately, which keeps me from recommending the movie entirely whole-heartedly, though I still think it was more than worth my $10.75.
By far the best thing about the movie was Evan Rachel Wood's performance. She is absolutely, completely, totally amazing. She has a hard role - a smart, devious, manipulative bitch of the highest order, using sex, guile, and the showmanship of scandal to get exactly what she wants when she wants it while destroying those she wants to hurt, and she plays it perfectly. I spent the entire movie delighting in how brilliantly
evil
this character is. The movie could have been really, really bad; in fact, I think it would have been really bad with 97% of actresses playing the main character, because it's just such an unbelievable premise in many ways. ERW makes it work.
See it if you like super-dark teen movies, or just super-dark comedy/tragedies. Feel free to wait for DVD, though, as this type of movie doesn't suffer from that.
I actually have an episode of the American Whose Line saved on my Tivo forever and ever because it includes the mission impossible skit with the burnoose-washing and the cat.
Brothers Grimm was disappointing, and I wasn't expecting all that much from it except prettiness. It's like watching the "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil. Occasionally you can feel Gilliam trying to squirm through, but mostly it feels like someone with no sense of humor was trying to ape Tim Burton. Which is just odd.
But maybe he'll rant entertainingly on the DVD.
Art School Confidential, the Daniel Clowes/Terry Zwigoff film that was supposed to open on September 30, got pushed back to 2006.
Art School Confidential, the Daniel Clowes/Terry Zwigoff film that was supposed to open on September 30, got pushed back to 2006.
Fuck! That was one of my most-looked-forward-to movies this summer. Bastards. First V for Vendetta, now this.
Meanwhile, Deuce Bigelow 2 was released on time.
Meanwhile, Deuce Bigelow 2 was released on time.
::removes salt shaker from Matt's hand and moves it away from open wound::
To tell the truth, I laughed like a drain at the first one despite (or because of ) the extreme low-browness of the humor. But after hearing about Schneider taking out magazine ads to harrangue a critic I wouldn't go into that theater if they had Oded Fehr present as an usher.
At least the Pink Panther remake was also moved to 2006. Whoever thought that that was a good idea was smoking something.
