Sunday, November 12, 2006

• wish i could turn back the hands of time...

  Currently Watching Running with Scissors By Annette Bening, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Cross, Heather Clark (II), Kristin Chenoweth, Beth Grant, Colleen Camp, Jumper Lark, Gabrielle Union, Dagmara Dominczyk, Nick Dash, Omid Abtahi, John Richard Petersen, Anne Lockhart, Olivia Wilde (II) see related

  ...and get my $13 back....

  ....and not ever choose to see "running with scissors"...

  I'm going to borrow from the conclusion of the review on "Plugged In"

  "Halfway through this story of a young man whose Medea-like mother blithely tosses him into the arms of predatory monsters, you wonder why you're still sitting there. And I'm not just talking about how I felt. Because this was about the time when people at the advance screening I attended started leaving the theater. (A rare occurrence these days.) It wasn't the performances that drove them away. Most of the actors—especially Evan Rachel Wood—are stellar. There are also comedic and tender moments. And I can see how "open-minded" intellectuals or a certain sort might chuckle off this movie as another dysfunctional family comedy set in those crazy, shag-carpeted '70s.

  *edit*

  Murphy does manage to vomit out a vivid illustration of mankind's pell-mell bent toward foolishness and cruelty, which he colorfully dolls up as a quirky comedy. He shows a bunch of people making a bunch of horrible choices with very few direct consequences (other than the continuing muck of a life they live in) and with no solutions other than to run away.

  Which is pretty much what every unlucky soul who buys a ticket will want to do, too. At about the halfway point. Or earlier."

   

  This reminded me of "The Last Kiss", only because of how disappointing it was...despite the decent ending...

   

  STILL, go see Stranger Than Fiction!

   

  that's 2 down...1 to go...Borat anybody? 

   

   

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