Intolerable Cruelty
Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 12:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterWent to see Intolerable Cruelty (Coen brothers, George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones) tonight with mom and the boy. Highly, highly enjoyable movie. Do I sound pretentious when I say I'd recommend it to anyone?
Anyway, it's absolutely hilarious. I think it would have been categorized as a romantic comedy back in the forties, but everyone now thinks romantic comedies are horribly bad chick flicks. And did I mention it's absolutely hilarious? It's got a true battle of the sexes going on, with neither side really giving in, divorce, cheating husbands, legal maneuvers, and George Clooney.
When George Clooney first quit ER to go into the movies, I laughed. Hated his character in ER, never got why he was in all the magazines. And now this, plus glimpses in Ocean's Eleven and O Brother Where Art Thou, makes me think he really has that movie star bit that everyone attributed to Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. Him and Ewan McGregor are now on my list of people to watch. And Johnny Depp, of course, but Johnny Depp isn't quite a movie star star. I am still sitting on the couch chuckling to myself because of him. I like the little things, like how right after he wakes up from a nightmare, he checks his teeth with his tongue. It makes more sense after the movie.
And Catherine Zeta-Jones perfectly holds her own, although for the first bits watching her, I kept thinking... "it's Velma! Velma!"
My movie review is getting quite incoherent, oh well. But it was just a smart, funny movie, with an excellent buildup and an absolutely insane break-in scene that had me rolling in my seat. And George Clooney, a mass of tics and suaveness rolled into one, plus a man desperately, madly in love, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, as cool as you can be in contrast.
Go see so I can talk about it without spoiling anything! ;)
Anyway, it's absolutely hilarious. I think it would have been categorized as a romantic comedy back in the forties, but everyone now thinks romantic comedies are horribly bad chick flicks. And did I mention it's absolutely hilarious? It's got a true battle of the sexes going on, with neither side really giving in, divorce, cheating husbands, legal maneuvers, and George Clooney.
When George Clooney first quit ER to go into the movies, I laughed. Hated his character in ER, never got why he was in all the magazines. And now this, plus glimpses in Ocean's Eleven and O Brother Where Art Thou, makes me think he really has that movie star bit that everyone attributed to Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. Him and Ewan McGregor are now on my list of people to watch. And Johnny Depp, of course, but Johnny Depp isn't quite a movie star star. I am still sitting on the couch chuckling to myself because of him. I like the little things, like how right after he wakes up from a nightmare, he checks his teeth with his tongue. It makes more sense after the movie.
And Catherine Zeta-Jones perfectly holds her own, although for the first bits watching her, I kept thinking... "it's Velma! Velma!"
My movie review is getting quite incoherent, oh well. But it was just a smart, funny movie, with an excellent buildup and an absolutely insane break-in scene that had me rolling in my seat. And George Clooney, a mass of tics and suaveness rolled into one, plus a man desperately, madly in love, and Catherine Zeta-Jones, as cool as you can be in contrast.
Go see so I can talk about it without spoiling anything! ;)
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Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 10:25 am (UTC)I don't think Johnny _wants_ to be that type of star if that makes any sense.
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Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 03:25 pm (UTC)And Intolerable Cruelty is on a list of must sees. It hasn't come out yet, I don't think, but it's been advertised.
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Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 04:29 pm (UTC)Hee! Very much agree. I'd like to see him as the star of a romantic comedy just because I know he'd completely turn it over on its head. It's hard to believe he's the same person who played Edward Scissorhands, Jack Sparrow and the CIA agent in Once Upon a Time in Mexico!
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Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 04:45 pm (UTC)Nothing to do with the subject of your post, but--
Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 04:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Sat, Oct. 18th, 2003 05:14 pm (UTC)http://epguides.com/21JumpStreet/
Re: Nothing to do with the subject of your post, but--
Sun, Oct. 19th, 2003 05:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Sun, Oct. 19th, 2003 05:26 am (UTC)Makes one wonder about all the negativity about SMG. But then, Scooby Doo isn't exactly a Tim Burton movie.