Mal ,'Shindig'
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Laga, I'm right there with you. I have craxy love for Nurse Betty. Hell, I even like her Bridget Jones, and IMO she made a fine unrequited love for Robert E. Howard.
As long as we're admitting to lack of taste, I might as well state here my preference for the remake of Sabrina and the Gwyneth Paltrow version of Emma while I'm at it.
Still not keen on Julia Roberts, though. I'm not completely insane.
Le Gasp! granted I didn't truly embrace either version of Sabrina but I loves me Audrey Hepburn so muchly. Come to think of it I don't really care for My Fair Lady either. I just wish they wouldn't remake mediocre old movies when there are genius writers out there struggling to get their truly original screenplays even looked at.
ETA: I'm right there with you on the Julia Roberts thing. I also don't see what's the big deal about Jennifer Aniston although I will admit she is a fine actress. See The Good Girl if you don't believe me.
It's the hair.
There are gossip rumblings I've read about the last pregnant woman on earth being sub-Saharan African, and how (being both black and female) the movie treats her as pawn-material, an object, a belly with no brains, rather than a subject and a character in her own right. I've only seen the trailer, so I don't know whether to take that with a grain of salt, or to get mad in advance.
That's rubbish, quite frankly. Yes, she is treated like that by *CHARACTERS* in the movie (which is kinda also the POINT of the movie), but not *BY* the movie itself.
Children of Men is, frankly, my favourite film ever. It has two of the most accomplished scenes I've ever seen recorded. It's haunting. Yes, there's a lot of politics thrown in without being explored, and yes, the back half is basically a chase movie. However, I don't agree those are real critisms. It's a film which brings horrors we commit abroad back home, and smacks you in the face with them. Yes, it's depressing. Yes, the ending will annoy some people. Yes, ever critism I've heard people aim at it has been part of the creative process they've chosen to take, I suspect.
Anyway. It's a film which stayed with me for a good few days.
Since I have such an aversion (perhaps only based in part on aesthetics) to J---a R-----s ::turn and spit on ground:: I suppose I should grudgingly allow others the courtesy of disliking RZ so much. To me, the worst RZ is guilty of is choosing too many 'easy' roles when she could be capable of more demanding material. (c.f The Whole Wide World, Nurse Betty)
re 6600: :: puts it on my Must-See-Soon List ::
Re: Zellweger and my hate, it's the squinting. And the cute. And I haven't forgiven her for the Show Me The Money movie.
So you're saying she didn't have you at "hello"?
Bwah!
Yah I didn't understand the appeal of Jerry Maguire but I love cute.