Some comments on my the previous post suggested that I shouldn't have expected more from the film. While I didn't even want to see the film, I did hope that it would be at least mildly entertaining. I do suggest that there is a better way to portray women as sexy in in film (and by film, I mean legitimate cinema, no porn). Jessica Simpson isn't even an actor, she's a pop singer. I can easily think of two films from the past year or so that portray women as sexy without it being demeaning, to women in general, or the audience. Birth shows Nicole Kidman as A) experiencing an emotional breakdown and B) hotter than lava. And in one of my favourite films of all time Closer Natalie Portman is a stripper. That's right, a STRIPPER. Now that's sexy.
So don't think I'm averse to hot mammas in movies, cause that's not true. I'm averse to Hollywood making terrible pieces of shite and then complaining about all the money they are losing. Movie audiences will go see anything that is well advertised, if Birth or Closer, or any of the other excellent indie films of the last two years (other than Sideways, which was crap) got the marketing that the Dukes of Hazzard got, they would probably have been successful too.
Keep on Trangling,
Anthony
12 comments:
Ok so I admit, Sideways, like My Big Fat Greek Wedding before it were both highly successful indie films, but not because they were good, because everyone in the entertainment news media decided to have a giant circle jerk in honour of what are really two mediocre attmepts at making a movie.
sideways sucked. as a waitress/bartender i can wholeheartedly say that wine snobs are the most pretentious and obnoxious breed of bar-goers.
european people (my family and yours included) have been drinking wine out of a mug for hundreds of years.
it ain't no thang.
oh yeah, and natalie portman was wicked in closer.
also in garden state- which didn't get much play either.
I'm so sick of having crap shoved down my throat.
YOU SHALL BUY THE SHODDY PRODUCTS WE PRODUCE!!! YOU SHALL GIVE US YOUR MONEY!!! OBEY YOUR MASTER!!!
When they interviewed "the Simpsons" at the premiere, they went on and on about how hard Jessica worked for her role. Oh wait, I said that wrong - how hard she worked OUT. That was her goal. To look hot. Acting classes were not on her agenda when preparing for her film debut. Imagine that.
By the way, I read recently that Lance Armstrong's win was brought up to her - and she had no idea who he is. The phrase "dumber than a bag of hammers" comes to mind.
dumber than a bag of hammers..love it!
i also think that sideways and mbfgw sucked ass.
did you see natalie portman in (crap i gorgot the name of it) with uma thurman matt dillion
anyways, she was brilliant in that one also, and on inside the actors studio.
what is the name of that movie???dont you hate when that happens...i even own it and am too lazy to walk over and look..
that lance armstrong incident was to retarded for words.
he's won the tour SEVEN times.
i guess jessica can't count that high yet.
i have a confession to make.
i saw Princess Diaries 2 at the movies. I paid full price for the ticket. I knew it would be crap, I expected crap, and had even kind of warmed to the thought of spending an afternoon with crap.
but it was more crap than I ever could have bargained for. So, I know your pain.
Loz I also have a confession. I too saw Princess Diaries 2 on the big screen. My opinion if it- crap with vomit all over it. I thought Princess Diaries 1 was pretty good after being barraged by it daily when I worked in the electronics dept. at Walmart so when I got dragged to the sequel I thought it might be similarly charming. No dice.
you thought the first one was charming? i am ashamed of both of you.
I stand by my belief that the original Princess Diaries film is charming.
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Well the first one was sort of entertaining. But the second one was like someone ate the first one, and some month old curry and some spoiled milk and then puked it back into the projector. Did I mention they also had analanimalsex with it?
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