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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on May 04, 2008, 05:59:04 pm ---I went and saw Made of Honor with my daughter last evening.
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I saw two movies in one afternoon yesterday! First Baby Mama. I laughed out loud a few times, but it wasn't great. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were good, but they needed better material. Still, I felt I had to support it because I'd just read a NYT piece about how movies starring women are almost nonexistent these days. >:(
Then I had extra time, so I went to see Made of Honor. I agree with Leslie's assessment. It was a decent but unexceptional addition to this inescapably fluffy genre.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: seriouscrayons on May 05, 2008, 09:47:02 am ---I saw two movies in one afternoon yesterday! First Baby Mama. I laughed out loud a few times, but it wasn't great. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were good, but they needed better material. Still, I felt I had to support it because I'd just read a NYT piece about how movies starring women are almost nonexistent these days. >:(
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Well, you should try Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day. Fluffy, but well-acted wartime London comedy with one of my favorite actresses Frances McDormand! She makes the transition from a North Dakota to a British accent with flying colours! Lots of pretty boys featured too!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 05, 2008, 10:13:30 am ---Well, you should try Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day. Fluffy, but well-acted wartime London comedy with one of my favorite actresses Frances McDormand! She makes the transition from a North Dakota to a British accent with flying colours! Lots of pretty boys featured too!
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I do want to see that, because it also stars another actress I like, Amy Adams. Who, I notice (having just looked up her imdb bio to double check that she was in Pettigrew), is from Colorado, and got her first big career boost at a dinner theater in Minnesota that I used to work at! So we both have something in common with her.
Front-Ranger:
Amy Adams is great! I didn't know she was from Colorado! She plays the fluffhead starlett without getting cloying and has a great sense of timing.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 05, 2008, 04:40:44 pm ---Amy Adams is great! I didn't know she was from Colorado! She plays the fluffhead starlett without getting cloying and has a great sense of timing.
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She does. I loved her in Enchanted. And now I want to rent Junebug, for which she won (? or just was nominated?) an Oscar for best supporting.
I'm in the middle of Charlie Wilson's War -- watching it for the second time, this time with my son. Amy Adams plays Charlie Wilson's (Tom Hanks) secretary. A small role, but she's even good in that.
CWW, is as good the second time as it was the first. A highly underrated film. It has even held the attention of my son -- not easy for a movie about a congressman and U.S. foreign policy. "Snappy dialogue," he said, so I told him that it was written by Aaron Sorkin. No wonder!
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