Saw Burlesque with my daughter tonight. The story is definitely on the trite side and the romantic subplot is pretty obvious and predictable, but for your money's worth, you would pay a hell of a lot more for that level of Christina Aguilera concert. For the music alone, it was worth paying full price.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
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SailAweigh - Nov 25, 2010 5:04:45 pm PST #12260 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Steph L. - Nov 25, 2010 7:08:13 pm PST #12261 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
We watched Chicago after Thanksgiving dinner, and I gotta say, I didn't expect Richard Gere to be as good as he was.
And Renee Zellweger...was very good in the scene where she played the ventriloquist's dummy. And that's really all I can say about her.
Queen Latifah, though, is awesomesauce.
erikaj - Nov 26, 2010 6:49:49 am PST #12262 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I never thought she was hot enough for that part, Teppy. But I love that movie and have watched it a bunch of times.
smonster - Nov 26, 2010 7:07:37 am PST #12263 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I really can't think of anything I've liked Renee Zellweiger in.
Scrappy - Nov 26, 2010 7:11:10 am PST #12264 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I LOVED her in Bridget Jones Diary. Thought she did fine in Chicago, but did not have that extra something you need in a musical, which Zeta-Jones, Gere and Latifah all had.
Tom Scola - Nov 26, 2010 7:11:51 am PST #12265 of 30000
hwæt
She single-handedly ruined Down With Love for me. The entire rest of the cast is perfect, yet still a bad film.
smonster - Nov 26, 2010 7:19:43 am PST #12266 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I liked Down With Love, but it would have been better with another actress.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 26, 2010 7:32:47 am PST #12267 of 30000
"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
It helped enormously to see that movie with a bunch of relatives who also work in publishing, so we could all laugh and laugh together at just about everything Zellwiger said and did. It was about as accurate a depiction of the industry as Mary Poppins was of the nanny profession.
Amy - Nov 26, 2010 7:44:15 am PST #12268 of 30000
Because books.
I thought that was part of the point, though, Matt. That the old movies it was spoofing/honoring glossed over reality in just that way.
Zellweger doesn't bother me much, but I don't go out of my way to see her. I think she was actually really sweet and convincing in Jerry Macguire, but then it was sort of downhill from there aside from Bridget Jones.
Polter-Cow - Nov 26, 2010 8:08:25 am PST #12269 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't have any issues with Renee Zellweger that I know of. Have people seen Nurse Betty ? I liked that one.