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  • Bad Dinner, Good Dessert

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    There's a lot to like in this movie: the design, the pies, the waitresses, the pies, Andy Griffith, the pies, but what I don't like cancels out what I did like, which is why I only gave the film three stars. Jenna's (Kerri Russell) husband Earl (Jeremy Sisto) is the flattest character I have ever seen. I had childhood paperdolls more rebust than this guy. Why is he so clingy? Why, in the name of everything that's good, did she marry the bastard? At one point, on a phone conversation, Jenna mentions that Earl changed since their nuptuals, but that's all we see. This was such an obvious flaw, I felt a little dumb not turning the movie off, but those pies... Thus inspired, I baked an apple tart the next day, so it's a somehow a significant film, even if just to inspire a patiserrie.

     


  • 16 year olds don't talk like this...

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    ...and that's fine by me.

    "Sixteen-year-olds don't talk like that," is one of the criticisms I've heard about Juno. I'm sure it's true, but who cares? Juno's vocabularly and rapier wit is one of the best things about the film. Sure, we could watch something where a sixteen year old gets pregnant and then says, "Uh, like, uh, dad. I'm pregnant. And it sucks." But that wouldn't be any fun and Juno would be just another knocked-up sixteen-year-old.

     


  • Boring CGI obscures plot and characters

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    I've always liked the Incredible Hulk, but the CGI in this movie was just too much and I got really bored. (I saw it in the theatre, too.) Sometimes, I find the old-fashioned use of makeup and cinematic skill a better way to tell a story than to drug it up with CGI. it looks like cheating. But if you do like the Hulk, watch this movie. The ending is great.


  • Breathe

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    I bit the insides of my mouth the whole time I was watching this film. Not just because it was cold in the theatre (it was) but because I was afraid something was going to go dreadfully wrong. Either Gillespie was going to veer in the direction of just plain dirty (there is a life-sized doll in the cast, complete with orfaces) or just plain mean (Lars, the character who orders the doll is a bit touched, one might say.) But he didn't and I thought Gillespie maneuvered a fine line of staying true to the characters and small-town setting without resorting to the sentimental--or the dirty and mean. Highly recommended--I loved it.


  • Don't waste your time

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    Instead of watching this film, try sitting straight and breathing deeply or watching the rain fall. I'm not going to waste my time telling you all the comedic problems in this piece of shite. Just please believe me.


 

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