Oh. I read the book, but didn't see the movie. I get hives watching RZ. Not even Ewan McGregor and David Hyde Pierce overcame her squinty face and annoying voice to make me like Down with Love (which is, otherwise, big campy fun, because the actors are so obviously having fun with the conventions of the time).
Don't I get a cookie?
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Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 8:01:38 am PST #9149 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Tom Scola - Dec 28, 2008 8:03:58 am PST #9150 of 10000
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Huh, I was just thinking yesterday about how RZ ruined that movie.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 8:11:26 am PST #9151 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Because you are very, very smart.
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 8:17:55 am PST #9152 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
I get hives watching RZ.
Pretty much ditto.
Huh, I was just thinking yesterday about how RZ ruined that movie.
Wasn't thinking about it yesterday, but yes. This. Although I absolutely loved Sarah Paulson as her best friend.
I will say, however, she really was a perfect choice as Bridget. She captured all the painful insecurity of the character beautifully. And was the least squinty-eyed that I've ever seen her.
Tom Scola - Dec 28, 2008 8:22:19 am PST #9153 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I absolutely loved Sarah Paulson as her best friend.
That's the thing: the whole film was perfectly cast, except for this huge gaping hole in the center.
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 8:29:34 am PST #9154 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
That's the thing: the whole film was perfectly cast, except for this huge gaping hole in the center.
Yeah, it really was, wasn't it?
Who would you have put in the role, then?
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2008 10:07:33 am PST #9155 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Kate Hudson strikes me as a better choice, though we really don't have the 21st century Doris Day analogue that the story cries out for.
Maybe Tina Fey?
Steph, you should have seen Down with Love in the company I did: with 3 of my cousins that also work in the publishing industry. When RZ rolled out that explanation about writing, publishing, and becoming a celebrity due to a bestseller in about 3 weeks' time we all fell out laughing.
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 10:39:08 am PST #9156 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Kate Hudson strikes me as a better choice
She's got the precious factor, but she makes my teeth itch, though.
When RZ rolled out that explanation about writing, publishing, and becoming a celebrity due to a bestseller in about 3 weeks' time we all fell out laughing.
Thank God I took the whole thing for the absolute parody it was supposed to be because otherwise there might have been spluttering and cursing galore. I'm trying to think of what movie it was, a fairly recent one, where the lead female was an author and she was on this big book tour and I was just snorting my way through the whole thing, in terms of how it was described.
Steph L. - Dec 28, 2008 11:03:24 am PST #9157 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Steph, you should have seen Down with Love in the company I did: with 3 of my cousins that also work in the publishing industry. When RZ rolled out that explanation about writing, publishing, and becoming a celebrity due to a bestseller in about 3 weeks' time we all fell out laughing.
I think my comment was something like, "Not even Anne Rice manages that fast of a turnaround, and she doesn't use editors."
Amy - Dec 28, 2008 11:24:36 am PST #9158 of 10000
Because books.
I'm trying to think of what movie it was, a fairly recent one, where the lead female was an author and she was on this big book tour and I was just snorting my way through the whole thing, in terms of how it was described.
Something similar happened in Cheaper by the Dozen. Completely absurd shorthand, which usually doesn't bother me, but in that instance I growled.