That review looks like it was written by a studio shill
the currently only comment up there is just so publicist-esque, makes me sick. I hate these shills going around the internet posting these fake reviews on IMDB and message boards.
shareI think you're right -- it DOES look like it was written by a shill! Apparently it was unnecessary too--there seem to be plenty of ladies who were enchanted by the movie, although I am certainly not one of them.
shareI agree. I just reread it & it definitely sounds like a publicist wrote it. Sadly, it's completely unnecessary. It's actually an extremely good film with excellent actresses.
shareIf it was a publicist don't you think they would spell the actress's name correctly? It is Lacie not Lacy.
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I think there are more than a few "shills" who wrote reviews, or folks who too-closely identify with the lead characters in this film. I watched it, and it was boring, grating, and incredibly irritating in it's (failed) effort to be street-cool. The talking into the camera, the black-and-white flashback footage, AHHHHH, it was just awful. I can understand how lesbians would defend this film like a mama bear defending her cubs, but for everyone else this is just a chick-flick through a cheese grater. It is no female Brokeback Mountain, I can tell you that. More like a lesbian Smokey and the Bandit meets The Joy Luck Club.
"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus
I personally loved this movie a lot. It was different; very performance art-ish. And by the way, I think Brokeback Mountain sucked lol And I'm a fan of the boy on boy action, really =P
I really liked how real and open the characters were. They were pretty well developed and easy to relate too. It was also refreshing to have the characters narrate it; I'm a big fan of being able to hear what the characters are thinking when they do certain things.
I also liked that it was like a play within a play. Clever, if novice.
My only major eye-roll moment was the cocaine-induced montage where they decided to replay the entire movie/events over again fast-forward as if they did not have enough material to fill the entire 75 minutes lol That bugged me.
Otherwise, B-, maybe even B+. Not everything has to be an A. Plus, have you SEEN some of the other lesbian comedies? lol This is one of the better ones! (-coughMangokisscough-)
Couldn't agree with you more. I can't understand why these two real-life women thought their love story was interesting enough to write a play, and then a movie about it. It was like listening to proud parents talk about their gorgeous baby (the one WE know looks like a frog) for 80 minutes. The leads were irritating: Robin (constantly pouting) delivered her lines as though she was performing a high school English oral, whereas Lacy seemed to lead with her huge jaw (and drag her knuckles on the ground). The music and flash-backs were as cheesy as they get. The tell-rather-than-show narration does not translate well from the stage, but more importantly, the characters did NOTHING to endear themselves to me, and so I just didn't care. I kept watching only because I'd paid to rent the damn film, but in hindsight that's 80 minutes of my life I can't get back.
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