Rate RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

[abcdefz]

Not as good as I'd heard, but, yeah, Hathaway is terrific in it.

It's too long, and this fucking family gets pretty wearisome. So does the shoehorned multiculturalism, so P.C. that it starts to border on
being offensive.

Worth watching maybe once.

7/10

[paul jones]

I bet it's not as good as the new RAMBO.I got the DVD finally at the supermarket for £1.It was £7.99 but used the £10 I won midweek on the lotto to buy it so the £1 ticket win paid for it.I can't remember how many people get blown to bits in RAMBO but It must be around 1p per headcount or near or thereabouts....I'm not sure

[abcdefz]

This is a movie about people you wish would get blown to bits.

[paul jones]

This is a movie about people you wish would get blown to bits.

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[abcdefz]

Pau ljo, nes! (y)

































(That almost looks like Spanish.)

[Dorothy Wood]

It's too long, and this fucking family gets pretty wearisome. So does the shoehorned multiculturalism, so P.C. that it starts to border on
being offensive.




bingo.

I'm guessing nobody really wants to talk about this movie anymore, but I thought the review that Time gave it was pretty on the money. here's a portion

The idea, according to a director's statement by Demme, is to pay tribute to Robert Altman's method — hand-held cameras, casual framing, a sense that the dialogue is more overheard than consciously crafted. But the result is a mess. Kym, in Hathaway's unsympathetic performance, is an annoyingly sour observer of the proceedings, a time bomb everyone hopes will not explode before the marriage is completed. Her father, played by Bill Irwin, is a pious twit, sublimely unaware of how thin and weak his family's values are when put even to the mild test this wedding's kerfuffle presents. It is nice to see Debra Winger as his ex-wife — she's been away from the movies too long — but she mostly lurks on the fringes of the action and is not permitted to develop an arresting character. But then, no one is. Everyone just behaves in what is meant to be a naturalistic manner, which occasionally worked for Altman but just as often left audiences adrift. The trouble with this kind of filmmaking is that we are encouraged to feel superior to the characters we are watching, but are not given any special justification for our misanthropy. There was nearly always something ugly, careless and unfelt about the way Altman struck his superior poses. An imitation of that style is an affront no one needs.

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1846818,00.html



I had a big problem with not caring about any of the characters. I maybe barely felt for Kym. The rehearsal dinner was especially painful for me because I hate family gatherings and dinner parties. so it was like being forced to watch a dinner party that I wouldn't want to be at. all the boringness and feigned politeness, but none of the food.

I thought Anne Hathaway did a pretty good job, but I also have quite a few addicts in my family and I'm not sure she nailed it. Debra Winger ruled as the disconnected mom though.

I also hated the dishwasher scene. it went on for soooo long. and it wasn't funny, it didn't warrant the excessive excitement of the participants or the onlookers. you can't put that many fucking dishes in the dishwasher anyway, they'd never get clean. total bullshit.

[HEIRESS]

the movie annoyed me from start to finish.

[Documad]

I haven't seen it yet. I just put it in netflix queue but I won't be returning any of my current discs for a while. It doesn't sound like my kind of movie but I feel like I should watch it.

I've heard so much about it because of NPR. I heard that the dishwasher scene was from real life -- that Bob Fosse and Sidney Lumet argued for an hour over how to load a dishwasher.

That review blurb was interesting. I have never been much of an Altmann fan, even though lord knows I tried.

[Dorothy Wood]

I've heard so much about it because of NPR. I heard that the dishwasher scene was from real life -- that Bob Fosse and Sidney Lumet argued for an hour over how to load a dishwasher.




ah...that makes sense. like most of the movie it's a "you had to be there" moment. except you are there, and it's boring as hell.

I've tried to like Altman too, but I just don't.

I also decided that the best man exudes homosexuality for some reason. not like, "lol, he's gay", like "wow, I wonder if that actor is gay in real life". I did a tiny bit of research and it's tough to tell.


AND, the groom is wearing these glasses throughout the movie that don't allow you to see his eyes because of glare. I feel that it's a huge detriment to his character and the movie as a whole. because it makes him seem like he's not a real person. just some guy in the background that barely speaks. dunno, when characters are supposed to be in love, but you can't see them looking at each other, it's weird.



geez, I'm kind of upset about this movie. I guess mostly because all the critics gave it such great reviews. I just did not think it was engaging at all, the poignancy was completely forced and there wasn't much depth. ugh.


you should see it though, just make sure you have food and wine around so you don't feel left out when you're forced to attend the characters' wedding.