Movie reportage
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lagilmanHave been (under extreme duress and the promise of booze after) off to see Bridget Jones 2: The Edge of Reason.
(an aside: I dislike sitcoms. I don't find them funny. This carries over into any so-called amusing scene which is entirety about the emotional set-up and pratfall of the characters.)
That said, the move was... not as bad as I'd braced myself for. Mainly because of Pretty Men. Pretty Men, I might add, who had more chemistry with each other than with the heroine. Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, playing, respectively, the solid, somewhat boring, socially pretentious love interest, and the more-than-somewhat skanky but charming and funny sex interest. Something for every taste, as it were. If we could only have combined the two -- of course, with my natural cynicsm I suspect we'd have ended up with a guy with all the worst characteristics of both...
I would have liked to have seen Bridget go off with the surprise lesbian, actually (she seemed the most sensible of them all), and leave the boys splashing about in the fountain, fighting like girls. Yes, that was my favorite scene*, why do you even bother asking?
And then we went to the local bar and had a drink (or two) to wipe the worst of the movie from our minds.
*although the "Jones, you're staring at me while I sleep. Go do something else" was a great line/reoccuring bit. Not that I've ever watched a lover while he slept, just because, oh no, not me.... Not any other woman in the audience, either, from the scattered giggles at that line.
(an aside: I dislike sitcoms. I don't find them funny. This carries over into any so-called amusing scene which is entirety about the emotional set-up and pratfall of the characters.)
That said, the move was... not as bad as I'd braced myself for. Mainly because of Pretty Men. Pretty Men, I might add, who had more chemistry with each other than with the heroine. Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, playing, respectively, the solid, somewhat boring, socially pretentious love interest, and the more-than-somewhat skanky but charming and funny sex interest. Something for every taste, as it were. If we could only have combined the two -- of course, with my natural cynicsm I suspect we'd have ended up with a guy with all the worst characteristics of both...
I would have liked to have seen Bridget go off with the surprise lesbian, actually (she seemed the most sensible of them all), and leave the boys splashing about in the fountain, fighting like girls. Yes, that was my favorite scene*, why do you even bother asking?
And then we went to the local bar and had a drink (or two) to wipe the worst of the movie from our minds.
*although the "Jones, you're staring at me while I sleep. Go do something else" was a great line/reoccuring bit. Not that I've ever watched a lover while he slept, just because, oh no, not me.... Not any other woman in the audience, either, from the scattered giggles at that line.
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Date: 2004-11-20 07:36 am (UTC)