Dir. Lisa Cholodenko
Scr. Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
*In other words: I really can’t be bothered to write a review of this forgettable, smug, tv-movie-of-the-week film. It evoked little emotion, good or bad, simply ambivalence. So, yeah, sorry about that.
5 comments:
I agree with you so much on this one I am compelled to comment on your blog. I saw this on the plane on the way to London, and it was advertised all over the tube stations there, and I felt exactly the same as you - Meh. I do not understand all the nominations, this movie is DULL.
I totally disagree. It's an excellent performance-driven comedy with -so- many great moments.
I don't really understand the use of the word "smug". (Btw you finding the movie smug and it -being- smug are two separate things, but I guess that's just a shorthand.) What did you find smug about it? Did you find the characters smug, or the movie itself? (If the latter, what does that mean?)
@Anonymous, you kind of missed the point of me being so unmoved as to lack the will to write a review ... but never mind. I found the movie smug because it was smug. And by smug I mean overly pleased with its own sense of importance and awareness and progressiveness.
But, you know what, I'm glad you enjoyed it. At least that means you didn't feel that you wasted your time and money. Kudos to you.
You're trying to have your cake and eat it. On the one hand, you want us to believe it generated no strong reactions. But then you offer a footnote laced with harsh judgements, including the -very- pejorative word "smug". This isn't a movie that left you unmoved at all; it's one that actively irritated you.
Mmmm ... cake.
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