I Hated This Movie
So, I went to see The Holiday over the weekend and that's two hours of my life that I won't get back-on the bright side, I don't want those two specific hours back in any way shape or form.
I'm not a chick flick kind of person. While I love the romantic comedies of the 30's and 40's, the modern version leaves me cold, except for a select few (Valley Girl, and that's from the 80's). I can't take Meg Ryan's romantic comedies or Reese Witherspoon's movies-if Mark Ruffalo is in it, I'll think about it but my favorite movie is The Terminator for God's sake! But I saw the preview for The Holiday and I thought Kate Winslet's in it! And Jude Law and Jack Black-how bad could it be? So bad that I did not for one minute believe a word these characters said in any way. I've heard robots say their lines with more conviction and Babe the pig was certainly more expressive. I did not for one minute believe that Jude Law loved Cameron Diaz (who was dressed very well but made unbelievingly annoying facial expressions). I did believe that Jack Black could develop a crush on Kate Winslet, who, while she looked cute, had to say some incredibly stupid lines. How could this movie try to compare itself to The Lady Eve or His Girl Friday? Those women had the wittiest lines ever and knew that they were smart and clever. These two beautiful, intelligent women acted like idiots without a brain cell or ounce of gumption between them. They acted like the kind of woman that Barbara Stanwyck and Rosalind Russell would run rings around and then steal their boyfriends because no one would undstand why the leading man was with either of them. I feel the need to nitpick a few things as well...
1) If Jude Law is a book editor in London and Cameron Diaz owns a trailer cutting company in Los Angeles, why is Jude more tan than Cameron? Hitting the tanning salon too much?
2) Why was there an odd tribute to Eli Wallach? Was it just to name all those old movies? I can get behind a tribute to old movies (and you would be MUCH better off watching The Lady Eve or The Philadelphia Story than this piece of dreck) It's not like he hasn't had a long and stoied career-and he's still working! The man is 92 and he gave the best performance in the whole movie, so maybe that's why he was there.
3) Their houses were beautiful and Cameron's clothes were nice. I did wonder how book editors could afford such nice digs, but maybe they have family money.
This movie was extremely annoying and badly written-you would be much better off watching The Terminator. I watched Minority Report the same night (despite my dislike of Tom Cruise and the unbelievable happy ending that felt really tacked on) and was much happier.
I'm not a chick flick kind of person. While I love the romantic comedies of the 30's and 40's, the modern version leaves me cold, except for a select few (Valley Girl, and that's from the 80's). I can't take Meg Ryan's romantic comedies or Reese Witherspoon's movies-if Mark Ruffalo is in it, I'll think about it but my favorite movie is The Terminator for God's sake! But I saw the preview for The Holiday and I thought Kate Winslet's in it! And Jude Law and Jack Black-how bad could it be? So bad that I did not for one minute believe a word these characters said in any way. I've heard robots say their lines with more conviction and Babe the pig was certainly more expressive. I did not for one minute believe that Jude Law loved Cameron Diaz (who was dressed very well but made unbelievingly annoying facial expressions). I did believe that Jack Black could develop a crush on Kate Winslet, who, while she looked cute, had to say some incredibly stupid lines. How could this movie try to compare itself to The Lady Eve or His Girl Friday? Those women had the wittiest lines ever and knew that they were smart and clever. These two beautiful, intelligent women acted like idiots without a brain cell or ounce of gumption between them. They acted like the kind of woman that Barbara Stanwyck and Rosalind Russell would run rings around and then steal their boyfriends because no one would undstand why the leading man was with either of them. I feel the need to nitpick a few things as well...
1) If Jude Law is a book editor in London and Cameron Diaz owns a trailer cutting company in Los Angeles, why is Jude more tan than Cameron? Hitting the tanning salon too much?
2) Why was there an odd tribute to Eli Wallach? Was it just to name all those old movies? I can get behind a tribute to old movies (and you would be MUCH better off watching The Lady Eve or The Philadelphia Story than this piece of dreck) It's not like he hasn't had a long and stoied career-and he's still working! The man is 92 and he gave the best performance in the whole movie, so maybe that's why he was there.
3) Their houses were beautiful and Cameron's clothes were nice. I did wonder how book editors could afford such nice digs, but maybe they have family money.
This movie was extremely annoying and badly written-you would be much better off watching The Terminator. I watched Minority Report the same night (despite my dislike of Tom Cruise and the unbelievable happy ending that felt really tacked on) and was much happier.
posted by SHbookworm at 8:29 AM
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