More Movie Maligning
Last night's film was Burn After Reading. Watching it made me feel bad about the mean things I said about Spellbound last week.
BAR is about unpleasant people committing adultery. The two least unpleasant people don't survive the movie. There are occasional flashes of humor -- one does wonder when and how Harry, George Clooney's character, imagined his wife would use the the rocking chair with built-in fucking dildo action -- but it is definitely not the "comedic masterpiece" the box claims.
The acting is very good which just makes it worse, takes you into the movie making it an even more horrid experience.
I knew getting a Coen Brothers film was risky but I really liked O Brother, Where Art Thou? Unfortunately, it's the only Coen Brothers film I ever really liked and BAR is nothing like it.
This morning I finally got around to watching last year's The Incredible Hulk. I did think Edward Norton was much better than Eric Bana who never worked for me but on the whole I found the movie incredibly middling. Knowing me, it won't be a surprise that I have some comments...
While I enjoyed the cameos by Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, they took me out of the movie. And Tim Roth is a tiny man. Or maybe they just shot him that way.
There were a couple of lines that were just wrong. Roth's character, a recent emigrant from the UK, says the Hulk, "...tossed a forklift like a softball." Leaving aside the question of whether the Hulk throws underhand, I don't think a Brit would jump to "softball" for a simile. Later, Tim Blake Nelson's character, the mad scientist -- and he is an awesome mad scientist -- is talking about how precise a dosage of whatever it is he's going to give to Banner has to be and he says something like, "...if we're off by the smallest integer..." I don't think the writer knows what an integer is.
Maybe it's just me, but the Hulk did not look like Edward Norton to me. The features were more regular; he looked more like Eric Bana.
BAR is about unpleasant people committing adultery. The two least unpleasant people don't survive the movie. There are occasional flashes of humor -- one does wonder when and how Harry, George Clooney's character, imagined his wife would use the the rocking chair with built-in fucking dildo action -- but it is definitely not the "comedic masterpiece" the box claims.
The acting is very good which just makes it worse, takes you into the movie making it an even more horrid experience.
I knew getting a Coen Brothers film was risky but I really liked O Brother, Where Art Thou? Unfortunately, it's the only Coen Brothers film I ever really liked and BAR is nothing like it.
This morning I finally got around to watching last year's The Incredible Hulk. I did think Edward Norton was much better than Eric Bana who never worked for me but on the whole I found the movie incredibly middling. Knowing me, it won't be a surprise that I have some comments...
While I enjoyed the cameos by Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, they took me out of the movie. And Tim Roth is a tiny man. Or maybe they just shot him that way.
There were a couple of lines that were just wrong. Roth's character, a recent emigrant from the UK, says the Hulk, "...tossed a forklift like a softball." Leaving aside the question of whether the Hulk throws underhand, I don't think a Brit would jump to "softball" for a simile. Later, Tim Blake Nelson's character, the mad scientist -- and he is an awesome mad scientist -- is talking about how precise a dosage of whatever it is he's going to give to Banner has to be and he says something like, "...if we're off by the smallest integer..." I don't think the writer knows what an integer is.
Maybe it's just me, but the Hulk did not look like Edward Norton to me. The features were more regular; he looked more like Eric Bana.