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Post by smitten on May 15, 2016 20:57:11 GMT -4
More of an unpopular Actor opinion, but I don't think Damian Lewis is very attractive. I've seen him in a ton of things, The Forstye Saga, Wolf Hall and Homeland to name a few, but finally with Homeland I was like, "Really...him?"
He is however, a great actor.
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Post by chiquita on May 15, 2016 22:21:39 GMT -4
More of an unpopular Actor opinion, but I don't think Damian Lewis is very attractive. I've seen him in a ton of things, The Forstye Saga, Wolf Hall and Homeland to name a few, but finally with Homeland I was like, "Really...him?" He is however, a great actor. He was so icky in Forsyte Saga, that I found him terribly unappealing. For me, that changed with Band of Brothers and also the TV series Life, in large part due to the characters he played. |
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Post by smitten on May 15, 2016 23:33:05 GMT -4
Soooo icky. Although I will always love that miniseries for introducing me to the enduring charms of Ioan Gruffudd. I too would choose him over Lewis any day!!!
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Post by Smilla on Aug 24, 2016 19:33:54 GMT -4
This one might be more like 'sacrilege' than unpopular opinion. Bridesmaids is, um, not funny. I finally saw it yesterday and it not only failed to make me smile, it was borderline upsetting in parts. I like the director and McCarthy, et al, but that film was not anyone's best effort.
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Post by chonies on Aug 24, 2016 20:12:36 GMT -4
As someone who actually likes Bridesmaids, I'm fairly certain disliking it is more likely the majority opinion around here. FWIW, I don't think it's really a comedy, but more of an analysis of a friendship, or at least that's what I liked about it. I think selling it as a comedy did the movie a disservice. So maybe that's my unpopular movie opinion.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 20:35:38 GMT -4
As someone who actually likes Bridesmaids, I'm fairly certain disliking it is more likely the majority opinion around here. FWIW, I don't think it's really a comedy, but more of an analysis of a friendship, or at least that's what I liked about it. I think selling it as a comedy did the movie a disservice. So maybe that's my unpopular movie opinion. I think you're right. I can vaguely remember a discussion not long after it came out where there were very few of us on the board that actually liked it, most folks around here at the time didn't. I agree that the marketing was a bit off for it. They focused way too much on the gross-out and goofball moments. |
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Post by chonies on Aug 24, 2016 21:43:38 GMT -4
I agree! What I liked about was that it had some humorous moments (ranging from food poisoning to puppies, depending on one's preference), but it had a lot of the darkness that I liked from movies like Muriel's Wedding.
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Post by Mugsy on Aug 26, 2016 11:59:07 GMT -4
I didn't care for Bridesmaids the first time I saw it, but now I think it's a great dramatic comedy. Yes, parts of it are upsetting. Kristin Wiig just seems to get piled upon, but on the other hand, she brings some of it on herself.
If she and Maya Rudolph are such great friends, why not say up front, "Look, my business failed, I'm barely scraping by, there's no way I can afford a designer dress and a weekend in Vegas." Maya would have said, "Sorry, I got all caught up in this wedding shit, and my new rich friend sometimes sweeps me up in this high end stuff." and then figure out something that works for everyone. That's what real life friends do.
And I know from reading advice columns that real life brides can turn into crazy demanding bitches, but still. Wiig seemed to make it worse for no reason by getting fired.
All that said, there were a lot of hilarious moments. One small one that comes to mind is when Wiig is arriving at the shower and she is given lemonade, is annoyed because how is she supposed to drive and drink it, then sips it, and reluctantly admits, "Shit, that's good." That's followed by a shot of her on horseback on the next leg of the shower arrival, still sipping (I think), just to show how ridiculously over the top the shower was.
But yeah, on my first viewing, I just thought the movie was mean-spirited.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2016 13:34:43 GMT -4
One part of it that I liked was how they dealt with Rose Byrne's character. You start out hating her for showboating during the engagement party and seemingly trying to squeeze Wiig out, but by the end you actually feel sorry for her because she doesn't really have any friends or know how to make them. So her bonding with Maya Rudolph and holding onto her for dear life (and using her money as a way to keep her around) makes sense.
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Post by chonies on Aug 26, 2016 14:50:51 GMT -4
I agree with both of you! Mugsy, what rang true for me with the Wiig/Rudolph dynamic is that Wiig's character wanted a safe island or retreat where she could sort of pretend that money wasn't as big a problem as it actually was, and also where she could pretend that nothing was different between the two of them. The money thing about being a bridesmaid was just one more money thing, and I read it as even though she can't keep her business open, maybe she could afford a bridesmaid experience. People get weird about money--the usual complaint about this is "why is she spending money on getting her hair done when she's on welfare?" Wiig was already getting a lot of emotional and financial bailing out, so it made sense to me that she would try to prove that she could handle the bridesmaid thing--especially for a friend--even when her car/life/work was literally falling apart.
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