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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.
I never thought she was hot enough for that part, Teppy. But I love that movie and have watched it a bunch of times.
I really can't think of anything I've liked Renee Zellweiger in.
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.
She single-handedly ruined Down With Love for me. The entire rest of the cast is perfect, yet still a bad film.
I liked Down With Love, but it would have been better with another actress.
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.
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.
I don't have any issues with Renee Zellweger that I know of. Have people seen Nurse Betty ? I liked that one.
I liked Down With Love, but it would have been better with another actress.
Thanks to Ewan and David Hyde Pierce (who honestly stole the movie every scene he was in), the movie was not ruined for me. But damn, Renee Zellweger is BAD, with her little scrunchy face like she just smelled something that had been in the fridge since the Carter administration, and her whiny, breathy, faux-Melanie-Griffith voice. (Full disclosure: I don't like Melanie Griffith, either. I just can't abide women who sound like little girls.)
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.
Me, too. (Though I do love Desk Set, particularly the Christmas party scene. t edit Not that Desk Set was a spoof; but the crazy Christmas party scene seems so over the top that it seems like a spoof. Though I'm given to undertand that those kinds of parties were par for the course in companies that size, back in the day.)
Hmm. Now I might need to rent Desk Set....