Movie Details
| Title: | The Holiday | |
| Director: | Nancy Meyers | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Genre: | Female Cinema | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.13.06 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 12.13.06 | Alamo Village | I don't know who Nancy Meyers thinks she is but someone should tell her that romantic comedies longer than Ghandi just aren't cool. OK maybe that's a bit facetious since Ghandi was 6 hours long, but still. 140 minutes is just ridiculous for a movie like this. I guess if i was romantic comedy uberfan #1 I'd love the value I get but instead I felt like I sat through two crappy chick flicks instead of one. Like I got a bonus whole other second movie filled with equally false and inane situations gratis. I didn't want that movie. I would've exchanged that second movie for socks or something. Please don't push your crappy bonus movie into my eyes! So really the two things that got me into the theater were hearing that Eli Wallach had a part and hearing that there are plenty of movie-related things in the periphery (thanks, Micah). About 30 minutes in, Eli Wallach walker-d his way across the background and I was pretty sure that was gonna be the last time I saw him in this movie. While that would've sucked, it DID make me laugh which made me feel like I was fitting in with all the middle-aged women behind me. And while it is true that Jack Black plays a composer and Cameron Diaz cuts movie trailers and Wallach is an old legendary screenwriter, I really don't think any of those jobs are done the way they're shown in here. Like I'm pretty sure the owners of these trailer houses have some crappy west hollywood apartment somewhere, deciding if this week's money goes to groceries or gym membership. I'm pretty damn sure they don't have some huge Hollywood hills palace with batcave-levels of tricked out home furnishings. And I'm also pretty sure that a WGA event announced three days beforehand would not bring a sold out audience to see some old writer get on stage. Maybe if it was some other town but not LA. But I suppose I really don't deserve to complain about this movie. I knew exactly what it was from the trailer and even more exactly from the first three minutes... I could've just left if I was so disgusted. I think if I ever afford therapy, one of the things I'd want to get to the bottom of is why I habitually watch movies like this that I know will be bad. |
