Comments on: The Upside of Anger http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Thu, 21 May 2026 15:31:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429&cpage=1#comment-3865 girldetective Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:51:20 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429#comment-3865 I was trying to be positive about having watched the film and find the good points, but it's one of those films that gets worse the further I get from it. I don't disagree with what either of you said, though I do think it had some redeeming points. I was trying to be positive about having watched the film and find the good points, but it’s one of those films that gets worse the further I get from it. I don’t disagree with what either of you said, though I do think it had some redeeming points.

]]> By: Amelia http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429&cpage=1#comment-3746 Amelia Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:56:07 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429#comment-3746 Hello! I have to agree. I was looking forward to watching this movie and when I finally saw it - uugghh! It was awful. I think that the promotional clips gave the movie more of an edge than it actually had. I could not believe how boring this movie was. Hello!

I have to agree. I was looking forward to watching this movie and when I finally saw it - uugghh! It was awful. I think that the promotional clips gave the movie more of an edge than it actually had. I could not believe how boring this movie was.

]]> By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429&cpage=1#comment-3730 girldetective Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:37:34 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429#comment-3730 I was definitely disappointed in it, esp. since Ebert and Roeper, whose reviews I am usually able to read well enough to know whether I'll like what they like, were waxing rhapsodic over Joan Allen specifically and the movie generally. I did really like her performance, and found her character--the nice housewife who gets burned and turns boozy and bitchy--to be very funny/cathartic/sympathetic. I also really enjoyed Costner as the boozy loser who's not a bad guy. Most of the rest of it, though, I either was indifferent to or actively didn't like. The ending gets worse with time and thought. None of the daughters was interestingly or believably characterized.The director's turn as the sleazy producer was more sleazy than funny. So I enjoyed it for the two main characters, and tried not to be too annoyed at the rest. I was definitely disappointed in it, esp. since Ebert and Roeper, whose reviews I am usually able to read well enough to know whether I’ll like what they like, were waxing rhapsodic over Joan Allen specifically and the movie generally. I did really like her performance, and found her character–the nice housewife who gets burned and turns boozy and bitchy–to be very funny/cathartic/sympathetic. I also really enjoyed Costner as the boozy loser who’s not a bad guy. Most of the rest of it, though, I either was indifferent to or actively didn’t like. The ending gets worse with time and thought. None of the daughters was interestingly or believably characterized.The director’s turn as the sleazy producer was more sleazy than funny. So I enjoyed it for the two main characters, and tried not to be too annoyed at the rest.

]]> By: duff. http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429&cpage=1#comment-3728 duff. Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:43:37 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=429#comment-3728 i thought that movie was breathtakingly, stunningly BAD. i thought that movie was breathtakingly, stunningly BAD.

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