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The local film critic completely panned Lucky Number Slevin, but in so doing ensured my attendance with this passage:
The only real surprise here is why so many esteemed actors are willing to play second banana to Josh Hartnett, who stars as Slevin, a young man who spends much of the early part of the film covered only with a bath towel and the blood from his broken nose after gangsters kidnap him from a New York apartment.
I just saw the blowsy, gritty Pride & Prejudice remake. I'm sort of ambivalent about it. The only feeling I resolved is about the costuming. Realizing it must be set before the height of the Regency period so I'm now less bothered by the lower waist lines of the country fashions, as opposed to the higher ones of the elegant ladies. But I still think boy-chested Keira Knightly looks ghastly in the dresses.
I was ambivalent about Keira, but decided that Matthew MacFadyen was welcome to save my family from ruin any time.
I also liked the attemt to make the parents less cartoony thn they often are in film adaptations.
I also liked the attemt to make the parents less cartoony thn they often are in film adaptations.
That was one of the things I loved about it. I loved Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland as Mr. & Mrs. Bennet. They were so much less comtemptible. And Matthew MacFayden, while he could never make me forget Colin Firth, did a first rate job.
I saw Kinky Boots this evening, and unfortunately, it was awful. I was expecting The Full Monty, instead I got Billy Elliot.
The Chiwetel Ejiofor character is given zero depth, the story is told through a sequence of climactic speeches and endless montages, the plotting is weak and contrived, and the shoes aren't even that sexy. Feh.
It's too bad when the best thing about a movie is the title.
deletes Kinky Boots from the Netflix list
I've now watched P&P three times (once with the director's commentary). All in all, I liked it for the acting, the costumes and the set. But I think that it's technically an inferior effort--the sound sucks, the editing seemed weird to me when I found out that the director hated letters (even though the letters provide a lot of exposition for the book and the film versions I've seen).
the director hated letters
Dude -- the guy hates letters and Regency dress? Why exactly did he want to make this movie?
The chance to work with a cast consisting largely of five pretty young girls?