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Release Date: 26 November, 2002 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
Lovely & Amazing Reviews
Yawn!
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! :>)
Lovely & Amazing
Very good movie. Emily Mortimer is just fantastic.The whole movie and cast is good.I would have given the movie five stars had Ms. Mortimer had been in it more.
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