Jane is the Unibomber: This movie made my brain hurt
Wednesday, 28. May 2008, 22:12:22
Against my better judgment, I watched 27 Dresses. I already knew it would be lame and I watched it anyway - clearly my decision making process needs some revision. Because seriously - I will never get the last two hours of my life back. Ever.
Assorted comments:
Now I'm going to play Music Catch just to cleanse my mind of this movie.
Assorted comments:
- The fetishization of weddings, which are themselves a type of creepy fetishization, creeps me out.
- The opening scene is ridiculous.
- All the other scenes are ridiculous too.
- At times the dialogue doesn't match the actions, or the expressions on the actors faces. It is very odd.
- Journalist man has freaky implant looking cheekbones in the beginning.
- If she had ended up with the boss, I would have cried. Not in the good way.
- Why the hell isn't she a wedding planner? It would be a better career and pay better, besides. Maybe you can't be as excruciatingly repressed and passive aggressive as a wedding planner though...
- This reminds me of a bad sitcom episode, but so much longer.
- I was sick of this six minutes in, but I kept watching? Why? I think I might need professional help. Or at least a moratorium on the anthropological experiments.
- KH seems heavily medicated and vapid throughout most of the movie - more so than necessary. Except for the part in the bar in "East Deliverance", where she seems like a person (in character) rather than a person who is acting like a vapid person.
- That Bennie and the Jets thing was horrible, though.
- Also, the thing with Pedro? Loudly: Hola, Pedro. I get it, she's the antagonist - Seriously, are you going there? I guess you are.
- Nevermind the cleaning business.
- The only two lines that I liked the delivery on: ...or would you prefer to lie some more? and You want to find the ugliest stuff in the store and register Tess for it?
- Note to the actress playing the sister - I appreciate that the character is impossible to play and has a complete personality change in the last act, but seriously, head waggling is not acting.
- The scene with throwing out the dresses - that's not cathartic, it's just stupid.
- Also, the creepiest, scariest line I've heard in a movie (or anywhere) in a very long time: You never say no, which I love. There is an acronym for that - fubar.
Now I'm going to play Music Catch just to cleanse my mind of this movie.
