Friday, May 25, 2012

SOMETHING STUPID:  Maureen Ryan did not care for this weekend's HBO biopic Hemingway and Gellhorn, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman:
Now that the first season of "Smash" has ended, this is the best hate-watching fodder we'll probably have for many months. 
Why is hate-watching the only realistic option? Because loving or even liking this expensive misfire is simply not possible. Even more than last year's turgid "Mildred Pierce," "Hemingway and Gellhorn" is a gigantic missed opportunity, a jaw-droppingly trying waste of time. Don't let the fancy names in the cast fool you: This is a stupid, stupid movie. 
We don't hate-watch Syfy's Saturday movie offerings -- "Sharktopus," "Mansquito" and the like -- because they know they're trash and they good-naturedly embrace their energetic lack of quality. Not only is "Hemingway and Gellhorn" wretched, it is bathed in pretentiousness and pseudo-intellectual delusions of grandeur. It's not just crap, it's expensive, painfully "artistic" crap starring a lot of actors who should have known better once they took a look at the script, which is hilariously awful.
Yes, but does it feature a scene in which Ms. Kidman urinates on one of the stars of High School Musical?

5 comments:

  1. Meghan3:43 PM

    Huh, Nicole Kidman in something pretentious?  Go figure.

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  2. Anonymous4:03 PM

    I liked that bit at the very end where Macy Gray explainedx the experience of acting for Lee Daniels in terms of an intense, mandatory, and prolonged dissociative episode.

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  3. That was me.

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  4. Joseph J. Finn9:25 PM

    Man, I can't stand Hemingway (and living in Oak Park makes it slightly more annoying), but it doesn't sound like even he deserved this.

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  5. Ranhorn3:14 PM

    I will say Kidman's plastic surgery seems to have finally settled in and she looks pretty hot again

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