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'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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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
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.
Steph L. - Nov 26, 2010 8:21:33 am PST #12270 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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....
Beverly - Nov 26, 2010 8:56:35 am PST #12271 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
You know the movie I loved Zellweiger in? Empire Records. Skinny LaPaglia! Speed! Punk Robin Tunney! Non-elvish Liv! And Zellweiger was kind of adorable.
tiggy - Nov 26, 2010 9:02:44 am PST #12272 of 30000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
word, Bev.
DavidS - Nov 26, 2010 9:18:11 am PST #12273 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Plus Rory Cochrane in his only other decent non Dazed and Confused role.
DavidS - Nov 26, 2010 9:18:40 am PST #12274 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Incidentally, I have the MP3 for "Sugarhigh" if anybody needs it.
Beverly - Nov 26, 2010 9:25:25 am PST #12275 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I liked him as Speed, from before CSI: Miami went totally belly-up.
Vonnie K - Nov 26, 2010 10:48:45 am PST #12276 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I really can't think of anything I've liked Renee Zellweiger in.
The Whole Wide World. Before Jerry Maguire, I think. The movie's about the pulp writer Robert Howard played by uber-charismatic, pre-bloat Vincent D'Onofrio, and Zellweger plays his sweetheart, Novalyne Price. It's a small movie, but lovely and bittersweet and just about perfect, and Zellweger is terrific in it. It also has one of the best screen kisses I've ever seen (swooooooon).