and Becca and the other one ... were not close friends with Lillian
What did I miss here? Where did they come from? I'm confused now.
Of course I understand that Annie hadn't spent her whole life acting like she did during the movie, but it wasn't until the scene in Lillian's apartment that I felt any convincing indication of a history between them of a tight bond. I absolutely never got/bought the Helen stuff, except from her point of view. That made sense.
I think if I'd found more of it funny, I might have been more forgiving, because I was expecting a comedy. But I'm not particularly patient with protagonists who mess with other people's lives like that--I understand that your own might be falling apart around you, but the collateral damage thing makes me twitchy, and I disconnect from the protagonist.
I got the connection between Annie and Lillian in the scene at the beginning, with the exercise class and the breakfast, but I also got that they'd not been seeing each other too often recently.
I thought Becca and the angry mom were sort of obligatory bridesmaids. Wasn't Becca a cousin or something? And I think I missed who the angry mom was to Lillian, but I didn't get the impression they were all that close.
It just didn't sink in for me. Everyone felt at similar remove to me, although lip service was paid to Annie being closer.
But I was also full of not liking them all, so that surely coloured my reaction.
Extended sneak peek at Snow White and the Huntsman:
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I haven't decided what I think of it, but that trailer gives you a lot of the plot.
I just watched some of the original 1997 trailers for Titanic, and compared them to the new ones. I started this because I saw one of the new commercials and I thought it seemed like there was a lot more disaster and water rushing at the camera shots than I'd remembered from the old commercials. But after looking at them, I realized something else. The 1997 commercials made is clear that the reason that Jack and Rose couldn't be together was that Jack was poor and Rose was rich, and also, included several shots from the movie that made the point that the rich people had a chance at surviving the shipwreck, while the poor people didn't. The new commercials ignore this entirely. Practically every shot used is rich people. In at least one of the trailers, EVERY post-crash shot where you can see individual people shows rich people. The original commercials made a whole lot of use of the scene where Jack's friend, with a bunch of other people behind the locked gate, shouts something like, "There are women and children down here! For heaven's sake, give us a chance!" which I don't see anywhere in any of the new ones. Same thing with the scene where Rose shouts at her mother, "The ship is sinking, and there aren't enough lifeboats! Half the people on this ship are going to die!" and her fiance sniffs, "Not the better half."
There was a Salon piece a few days ago about the differences in trailers over the past few years, including the Titanic trailers, though it is more from a film style perspective:
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As has been discussed here in the past, there are not-so-secret Hudson Hawk fans amongst the Buffistae.
BECAUSE IT IS AN AWESOME MOVIE.
Saw Wrath of the Titans over the weekend. Amazing special effects
in Tartarus
. But overall, it kind of felt like the original Clash of the Titans minus the sense of humor. When I saw the
mechanical owl in Hephaestus' cave,
I had hopes -- but it wasn't to be.
On the other hand, looking at Sam Worthington for an hour and a half is not painful. And did I mention the great special effects
in Tartarus
?
