Sunday, March 02, 2008

  • Romantic fraud

     

    Freeman-Morgan-Feast-of-Love-u53501zrw11 Comedy, the movie Feast of Love, left, is not. 

    Romantic comedy is what we wanted and "critically acclaimed romantic comedy" is what the box said, plus having never seen a Morgan Freeman movie we didn't like, is what sold us on renting this movie. 

    There was nothing funny in this movie except perhaps watching Greg Kinnear's character, Bradley, hug his Cocker Spaniel. 

    And romance?  The first love scene was watching Bradley (Kinnear)'s first wife turn out to be a lesbian, certainly not to my taste in skin. 

    Then Kinnear's second wife, played by Radha Mitchell, starts out as a customer in his coffee shop who is a realtor still having an affair with a married man she sold a house to the prior year.  She marries Kinnear's character on the rebound only long enough for her lover to leave his wife and decide he cannot live without her.  Rather than the "exquisite tapestry of interlocking love stories," it was more like musical chairs (lovers).  There was no development of any romance with any of these couples.  All it turned out to be was a repeat of the same sequence:  1. Boy meets girl; 2. boy jumps in bed with girl; 3. boy loses girl, or girl loses boy.

    The only thing resembling character development in this film is Freeman's character, Prof. Harry Stevenson, an aging college professor who's on sabbatical from teaching while he grieves over the death of his son from a drug overdose, who seeks redemption in giving sage advice to young people he meets in Kinnear's coffee shop.  But even the overdose is a credibility stretch, as the dead son had become old enough to be a doctor. 

    I want my four dollars back. 

     

Comments (5)

  • Starwhisperer

    I hate when you expect good and get crap instead.   Nothing ruins a good at home date night like a bad movie.   We mostly stick to the comic book based movies, less dissapointment that way.   Try batman begins... it was awesome.
  • AryahUltima

    heya, sorry to hear about your cinematic let down. Thanks for the comment though!
  • bearnlbk
    Thanks for Sharing!

    I'm trying to unload the credits here. I think 700 is too many.

    Thanks for the warning.  Sounds like a forced tear-jerker; like "Dying Young" or (I had to look the title up on this one) Paradise, with Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson.  Rachel and I saw this one in the early nineties, and I kept thinking, "Just kill yourselves" or "Just jump off a mountain into lava...something to end my agony of this movie."

    Oh another movie to avoid...a couple of years ago, Rachel and saw the "Family Stone".  Talk about Hollywood putting every politically correct or liberal idea into one movie. Of course the mother and father were from the hippie generation and kept those lack of respect ideals going.  Kind of a "My Deaf/gay son, dating a gay black guy trying to adopt a baby...oh by the way we know you're having sex before marraige because any one to say otherwise is a lie, and by the way here's some pot.

    Later

     El C.

  • HaigLaw

    @Starwhisperer - 

    @AryahUltima - 

    @bearnlbk - 

    I think how you watch a movie proves whether you're an optimist or pessimist.

    If a movie is really bad, and you keep thinking to yourself -- it's gotta get better -- or -- when are we gonna get to the good part? -- you are an optimist.

    If a movie is bad and you stop looking at it the instant you see how bad it is, you're a pessimist.

    I am always the optimist sucker.  We almost aLways keep watching, no matter how bad.

    I think the only exception is -- maybe if there is some Satanistic seance, we'll stop it.  But we usually don't rent stuff that even might have stuff like that in it.

    You can't always tell.  Becky will read reviews and kinda know what she's looking for and not looking for, when we go into a movie store.

    Me -- i've never heard of any of 'em.  I'm reading the whole back of the box on all of them.  She'll find 4-5 to consider while I'm reading the back of the box on just one. 

    Is that, like, the female mind, or what?
  • bearnlbk
    I'm a nut...

    @HaigLaw - If at home, if it get's to cheesy, I get up and leave or find something else. I don't know what's worse, a long drawn out tear-jerking want-to-be movie, the thought of getting drilled at the dentist without anesthesia, or enduring 30 seconds of Nancy Grace.

    El C.

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