Lovely and Amazing
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Movie Reviews of Lovely and Amazing
Movie Review: Waist of celluloid...
Summary: 2 Stars
Lovely and Amazing should have been a brilliant film about a family of women dealing their inner neuroses while trying to maintain a sensible family dynamic. What came out was a droll, boring, and unwitty. Katherine Keener, whom I generally like was unwatchable as an unhappy housewife who is forced to get a job when she can't sell her tacky craftwork. Emily Mortimer plays a typical actress type with a low self image and no ability to say what she wants. Brenda Blethyn, typically a strong acctress, is weak as the mother of this motley crue. She is seeing the signs of old age and decides to have plastic surgery, there are complications and she almost dies. This even brings the family back together and all is right with the world again.. BLAH.. I left this movie felling empty and unfulfilled. I am actually sorry i wasted the money to rent it.Movie Review: No Man's Land
Summary: 2 Stars
Lovely, but far from amazing, this film is more of a vignette briefly examining the lives of three sisters and their mom who is approaching a cosmetic surgery procedure. Perhaps "Lovely and Amazing" is best suited for the ladies, as no men make an impact of any measure. Great acting and lots of potential but the film really doesn't go anywhere. Also, the sound was weak, always a bad idea for a dialogue heavy (and dependent) film. Michael Duranko
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Movie Review: wandering
Summary: 2 Stars
This was a pretty pointless movie. The acting was more often than not needy and flat. Catherine Keener seemed totally out of place, as if she was trying too hard to be energetic and zany. The movie ended just as the plot was getting interesting. After finishing it, I couldn't figure out what the point of it was and why I had even bothered to watch it.Movie Review: Yawn!
Summary: 1 Stars
Nicole Holofcener (and I thought I had a tough-to-pronounce last name!) directed several episodes of Sex & the City, a show that I love. But "Lovely and Amazing" is one of the worst films I have yet to see.
Worst of all, it has exstremely annoying characters that I felt nothing for. The two sisters, Keener's (especially) and Mortimer's characters, are so unbelievably annoying and whiny I in fact did not sympathize with them, but with their poor husbands/boyfriends! My feet were curling up in embarassment, and unfortunately, there are many many women like that out there. Oh, did I mention that I'm a woman? That doesn't mean I can't see things from both a male and female perspective - it's called being "intelligent"! :>)
Jake Gyllenhall is the only ray of sunshine in this film (the reason why the film gets its one star from me): you can't your eyes off him: adorable in a off-beat way, you never get the sense he's acting, whereas everyone else in the film seems terribly self-conscious and obviously very "aware" of the camera. He and Maggie Gyllenhall (his sister) give me great hope for American film! Can't wait to see him in "Brokeback Mountain", getting it on with Heath-sensitive-stud-Ledger. (by the way: I found it hard to suspend my disbelief in the Gyllenhall/Keener love affair case. He's under his "scary-dumpy- -bathrobe" mom's thumb and is perhaps looking for another mom figure and is attracted to Keener's older woman character? Jake made me want to believe, but in real life, I doubt if a cutie like him would fall for a Keener bore!)
Raven Goodwin is good: she plays the adopted overweight (okay, fat!) smart, black 8-year old daughter of the Keener/Mortimer sisters' mother (a decent performance by Blethyn): the film would have worked very well if consistently viewed from her perspective: "black kid in a neurotic white family POV" (and you thought you had problems!).
Oh, and is it any wonder that husbands are cheating on their wives, when these wives look and talk like Keener? Why do women stop caring about themselves, their looks, their clothes when they get married and have kids? Look good for yourself, so YOU can feel good! And if hubby stops caring about himself, well, then send him packing or screw around yourself! (not good if you have kids I should add - they shouldn't pay the price for their parents' screwed up lives).
Summa summarum: one big yaaaawwwwwn of a film! Stick with Sex and the City! Yes, the SATC women have problems, but the SATC writing and acting was utterly superb, which is why not even Nicole H. could mess it up!
And finally: why, oh why are there so few female directors in the US? Are there no women graduating film school? Are they all doing earnest documentaries or Pamper commercials? What's up with that?
Happy New Year to everyone! :>)
Movie Review: Misogynistic and boring
Summary: 1 Stars
There are no female characters in this movie that have a single good quality to them. Neurotic, insecure to the extreme, self-loathing, angry, manipulative and racist - just for starters. I don't know what all those other reviewers saw but this film was horrible!