‘Sex And The City’ Sequel Secrets And Spoilers
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‘Sex And The City’ Sequel Secrets And Spoilers
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I was eagerly anticipating Easy Virtue since it premiered at the Tribeca Film festival in April. The lines to see the film wrapped around the theater. How could one go wrong? Colin Firth Kristin Scott-Thomas, and Noel Coward? It is sure to be a hit.
In fact, all the tickets were sold out and I missed it. I subsequently missed the opportunity to see the film in its limited theatrical release.
On a transcontinental flight over the weekend I had the pleasure to see this film. Initially I was very excited when I heard the flight attendant say that this film was part of our in-flight entertainment.
About 15 minutes into the film, I was bored as nuts. The result: I started writing this “review” at that point. It is obvious looking at Scott-Thomas and Firth were phoning their performances in, which can be entertaining. Then there is the issue of Jessica Biel – why oh why? She is completely miscast in her role, which although she is playing an American, her voice is putting o airs of upper class English sophistication.
I think that I am going to go to Netflix and add the original to my DVD queue and catch the original (and probably better) filmed version.
Additional problems I had with the film:
This overall sums up my disappointment. Maybe a repeat viewing will alter my impression of the movie but I doubt it. I will give it another look when it comes out on DVD.
I was rather saddened to hear about the passing of John Hughes last week. Although the films he was associated with are part of the 1980’s cultural landscape, my appreciation of them as cultural artifacts was not reflected until I was a little older. Part of it had to do with my not “getting” a lot of the angst that these kids who appeared in my mind to have things kinda going well for them were expressing. It is only now as an adult do I see that there was an undercurrent and parallel from what these teens encountered in their suburban paradises that the youth in the 1950s experienced. At that time, films like The Wild One or Rebel Without a Cause were the order of expressing a dissatisfaction and quite rebellion that lead to the turbulent upheaval of the 1960s. I was reminded of this when I just a couple of days before his untimely death watching The Breakfast Club. And who can forget the”I wish playing hooky was just like that” romp which is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
In short, Hughes’ films in their own way did reflect what the “Me Generation” hath wrought upon the world.
Here are links that are more articulate that I can be about the impact that John Hughes had on art and society in reflecting the society that he saw.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2009/aug/07/john-hughes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/10/john-hughes
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0811-hughes-musicaug11,0,1801948.story