Summer Movie Blues
Hey everyone! In this summer of sequels aimed at 12 yr old boys, I have had little to look forward to. There's only one sequel I want to see and that's HP5. Non-sequels have been few and far between but I've actually seen a few movies of late and two of them were worthy:
Knocked Up - We went to see this with Allison and Jess when they were in town a couple of weeks ago. And since Al and I are both pregnant we really thought we should be let in free. Instead we paid our $9.75 for a 4 pm show. When is 4 pm not a matinee anymore? Scumbags. Anyway, the movie was actually worth the money. Katherine Heigl plays an ambitious reporter (at E!) who gets pregnant after a drunken one nite stand with Seth Rogen's Canadian slacker. Rogen's group of pals include many from director Judd Apatow's beloved tv series Freaks and Geeks. This alone made the movie great for me. There were many, many laughs but the movie managed to have heart as well and great supporting characters. It's one flaw was what else - the runtime. Sorry, but no comedy should be over 2 hours and this one was 2 hrs and 25 minutes. The only time I was actually bored tho was the Vegas scene. That should have been cut. And the delivery scene? That was just plain terrifying for a woman in my condition.
Waitress - Yet another film about a pregnant woman. I sense a trend here. Or maybe that's just what I'm drawn too of late. The knocked up girl in this case is Kerry Russell who plays a waitress and pie maker. She's bullied by her husband but soon finds solace in the arms of her OB played by Firefly's Nathan Fillion. The movie had a bit of a storybook quality to it, but once I settled into it I really enjoyed it. Performances of the two leads were great as were supporting ones by Andy Griffith and Adrienne Shelly. Making it all the more poignant is the fact that Waitress was directed by Shelly and she was murdered by an illegal alien prior to the film's release. She left a beautiful swan song.
Georgia Rule - No pregnancies here, but perhaps one could have helped. I went into this film knowing nada about it but its cast - Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and its director, Gary Marshall (he did Pretty Woman). I assumed this was a romantic comedy. Instead it was a bizarre hodgepodge of molestation, mormons, alcoholism and death. Not exactly your standard elements of a rom-com. But somehow it was a movie you couldn't look away from, kind of like a trainwreck. Lohan did a fairly decent job, though I don't think she ever read the script in its entirety. Her main purpose seemed to be to show off one white sundress after another and yell at Fonda. Fonda's performance showed she may be better off in retirement.
Boulder Bumpersticker of the Day: Make Levees Not War
-sunday
Knocked Up - We went to see this with Allison and Jess when they were in town a couple of weeks ago. And since Al and I are both pregnant we really thought we should be let in free. Instead we paid our $9.75 for a 4 pm show. When is 4 pm not a matinee anymore? Scumbags. Anyway, the movie was actually worth the money. Katherine Heigl plays an ambitious reporter (at E!) who gets pregnant after a drunken one nite stand with Seth Rogen's Canadian slacker. Rogen's group of pals include many from director Judd Apatow's beloved tv series Freaks and Geeks. This alone made the movie great for me. There were many, many laughs but the movie managed to have heart as well and great supporting characters. It's one flaw was what else - the runtime. Sorry, but no comedy should be over 2 hours and this one was 2 hrs and 25 minutes. The only time I was actually bored tho was the Vegas scene. That should have been cut. And the delivery scene? That was just plain terrifying for a woman in my condition.
Waitress - Yet another film about a pregnant woman. I sense a trend here. Or maybe that's just what I'm drawn too of late. The knocked up girl in this case is Kerry Russell who plays a waitress and pie maker. She's bullied by her husband but soon finds solace in the arms of her OB played by Firefly's Nathan Fillion. The movie had a bit of a storybook quality to it, but once I settled into it I really enjoyed it. Performances of the two leads were great as were supporting ones by Andy Griffith and Adrienne Shelly. Making it all the more poignant is the fact that Waitress was directed by Shelly and she was murdered by an illegal alien prior to the film's release. She left a beautiful swan song.
Georgia Rule - No pregnancies here, but perhaps one could have helped. I went into this film knowing nada about it but its cast - Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, Felicity Huffman and its director, Gary Marshall (he did Pretty Woman). I assumed this was a romantic comedy. Instead it was a bizarre hodgepodge of molestation, mormons, alcoholism and death. Not exactly your standard elements of a rom-com. But somehow it was a movie you couldn't look away from, kind of like a trainwreck. Lohan did a fairly decent job, though I don't think she ever read the script in its entirety. Her main purpose seemed to be to show off one white sundress after another and yell at Fonda. Fonda's performance showed she may be better off in retirement.
Boulder Bumpersticker of the Day: Make Levees Not War
-sunday
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