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.
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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....
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.
Plus Rory Cochrane in his only other decent non Dazed and Confused role.
Incidentally, I have the MP3 for "Sugarhigh" if anybody needs it.
I liked him as Speed, from before CSI: Miami went totally belly-up.
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).
I never thought she was hot enough for that part
I thought she was unattractive in entirely the wrong way - Roxie is a character who might have been pretty once but has been drinking herself into oblivion for at least a decade. Not someone who could pass for a hottie right now if only she'd stand up straight and unsquinch her face.
I suppose that's what I meant, Jessica. "Marilyn Monroe Hits The Skids"
Bridget Jones was really cute...she was great in that.
Here's a big second for Vonnie's recco for
The Whole Wide World
which is early work for both Zellweger and D'Onofrio, and shows them at their best.
