'Dirty Girls'
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I just saw Idlewild, and was really disappointed. It was fine, but just... not great. The music wasn't that impressive, the story was kind of all over the place, just eh. I would say it's a cable watcher -- a perfectly fine way to spend a couple of hours, but not for $11.
I will say that both the person I was with and some of the other people in the theater liked it a lot more than I did.
Damn, I had hoped that it would be awesome.
Me too. How sad.
I'm going tonight. Tickets are already bought.
clanking sound of gears turning as expectations are lowered
Oh, that sounds like it could have been a really good movie. It still may be enjoyable, at least for the music.
I think lowered expectations will be your friend, Robin.
The other thing I noticed was the "black" preview reel -- two movies set in Africa, two in prison, one with Denzel.
Too bad about Idlewild.
Just had a Very Canadian Movie Session w/M. Hard Core Logo and Men With Brooms. I quite liked HCL, and LOVED Men With Brooms. Just loved
ASH has been cast as Sir Walter Elliot in the new movie of Persuasion.
Ooh, Rupert Penry-Jones as Captain Wentworth. Sally Hawkins as Anne. . . don't know who Sally Hawkins is.
Sally Hawkins as Anne. . . don't know who Sally Hawkins is.
I don't either, but apparently she was in Tipping the Velvet, which IIRC several Buffistas have read and seen and have big deep love for, so there's got to be someone here with an informed opinion on her. I sortakinda remember a copy of the novel floating about at the LA F2F with some happy discussion of the film version, but not who was doing the actual discussing.