2003-12-12 - 1:00 p.m.
last night i saw a sneak preview of "mona lisa smile" courtesy of my friends at entertainment weekly. it wasn't very good. i don't even think it deserves to be called "dead poetesses society." julia roberts plays herself and i'll be damned if the last shot wasn't her big guffawing laugh aka her trademark, stock in trade, what have you.
this movie could've been so much better. there was basically no plot and no connection between any of the characters. you didn't care about hardly anyone (two exceptions to follow). no character was delineated beyond a stereotype, which suits the movie's purposes but makes the ending seem tacked on and trite. i felt like i was seeing a rough cut of something, when in truth, it's coming out next week.
i'll say this, i'm glad i didn't pay for it and my recommendation is rental if you are into semi-boring chick flicks. we got gift bags from ew with a package of orville reddenbacher popcorn, a sample of celine dion perfume, a coupon for a venus razor, a dvd with a preview of the new "traffic" miniseries (i hadn't heard about this) with the hilarious tagline "the drugs were just the beginning." i'd like to thank the people at kellogg for giving the free sample of the new "krave" energy bar. i ate it this morning for breakfast thinking it was a granola bar, but when i bit into it was pure candy. i should've known because it was called "chocolate delight." well, now i'm addicted and it's all kelloggs' fault.
shout outs to two of the actresses in the lackluster "mona lisa smile": maggie "the cat" gyllenhahl and ginnifer "porn and chicken" goodwin. in the movie, maggie was sexy and sultry and possibly bisexual. also, i would wear all her costumes in my everyday life as clothes. ginnifer was touching and real and kinda chubby and adorable. my favorite parts were when they were on the screen.
kirsten dunst and julia stiles and the aforementioned miss roberts might as well have asked the director to flash "for your oscar consideration" underneath them during their scenes. sorry ladies, it's not gonna happen and if it does, the oscars are an even bigger farce than i thought. you want to see an ingenue act well enough to deserve the golden boy's nod? see scarlett johansson in "lost in translation."
finally is it just me or does anyone else realize that if you pull apart julia roberts' features (huge mouth, crooked teeth, veiny forehead, gangly skinny body, damaged hair) and take away her celebrity, she might not be considered the cutest girl on the block. just a thought...
