SO, since i've gotten my treadmill i've been spending alot of time watching movies while i walk. it makes the time go by faster on the dull treadmill and it whittles down my netflix que. it's a win/win situation really. here we go. are you ready? break it down...
okay, do you want the movie review or the how much they screwed up this book review? let's do both shall we? i read this book when i first moved to england 9 years ago. seemed like the thing to do since it's a
BRITISH book and all. unfortunately, this movie is really nothing like the book. yes, she's a shopaholic and she works for a financial corporation and she even has a friend suzie but that's where the similarities end. they made poor rebecca bloomwood so utterly asinine and spastic, that i really don't understand how people would believe she could possible ever be a real person. (as real person's go for a movie that is) whatever. that being said if i would do a movie review without comparing it to a book, i would say it's alright. nothing special but i didn't feel like it wasted my time.
i love me some matthew broderick. i even like nathan lane and who doesn't find will ferrell entertaining from time to time? but this musical was so very very hard to get through. so hard in fact it took me three days to watch it. don't get me wrong, there were some really funny things, just not enough to keep me interested. and the songs were annoyingly long and not catchy at all. *sigh* when will ferrell is the absolute only thing redeeming of a show, you know that's telling you something.
really.
first off, if you want a really really desperately want a most depressing movie to watch, this is it! you don't feel remotely good through out the whole show and by the end you really just want to die. at least that's how i felt. the filming and acting were done well and the artist view was amazing but i think it just hit a little to close to home for me. while i have never been a drug addict or an alcoholic, i have been hospitalized and have had to face coming home to a family who just doesn't understand. i also understood why she wouldn't want God to forgive her or how she didn't want to forgive herself. it was all to familiar. i spent the remainder of my day crying.
i really do love john c. reilly. and like i've said before, i do love will ferrell from time to time. that being said, this was a stupid waste of my time and a stupid waste of money to make. the end.
okay, do you want the movie review or the how much they screwed up this book review? let's do both shall we? i read this book when i first moved to england 9 years ago. seemed like the thing to do since it's a BRITISH book and all. unfortunately, this movie is really nothing like the book. yes, she's a shopaholic and she works for a financial corporation and she even has a friend suzie but that's where the similarities end. they made poor rebecca bloomwood so utterly asinine and spastic, that i really don't understand how people would believe she could possible ever be a real person. (as real person's go for a movie that is) whatever. that being said if i would do a movie review without comparing it to a book, i would say it's alright. nothing special but i didn't feel like it wasted my time. 
i love me some matthew broderick. i even like nathan lane and who doesn't find will ferrell entertaining from time to time? but this musical was so very very hard to get through. so hard in fact it took me three days to watch it. don't get me wrong, there were some really funny things, just not enough to keep me interested. and the songs were annoyingly long and not catchy at all. *sigh* when will ferrell is the absolute only thing redeeming of a show, you know that's telling you something. really.
first off, if you want a really really desperately want a most depressing movie to watch, this is it! you don't feel remotely good through out the whole show and by the end you really just want to die. at least that's how i felt. the filming and acting were done well and the artist view was amazing but i think it just hit a little to close to home for me. while i have never been a drug addict or an alcoholic, i have been hospitalized and have had to face coming home to a family who just doesn't understand. i also understood why she wouldn't want God to forgive her or how she didn't want to forgive herself. it was all to familiar. i spent the remainder of my day crying. 
i really do love john c. reilly. and like i've said before, i do love will ferrell from time to time. that being said, this was a stupid waste of my time and a stupid waste of money to make. the end.
