messy house


seriously...maybe the husband was abusive....but gees, the place was trashed, and it was christmas eve??

those twins were old enough to clean up after themselves, and for god sakes, there were only two of them.....i think the husband had a valid question....what in the hell DID she do all day??

and the community was posh enough that im guessing they could have paid help even.

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THANK YOU!!! I agree 100%--the husband was a terrible jackass but he did have a valid point; why the HELL did the house look like a tornado had swept thru and on Christmas eve no less. Those kids sure as hell were old enough to clean up after themselves. I know I'm gonna be attacked for saying this but no black woman would have let kids that old get away with trashing the house like that and then have the nerve to ask for Nintendo Wii for Christmas! Wii?? I'll show you a Wii ya little brat, how about you pick up all these other flippin' toys first and then maybe we'll talk about what Santa is gonna drop off!

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Haha. That's just one flawed angle to the whole messed up movie. Kim Basinger still looks great for her age but otherwise the movie has nothing else to offer. The acting is contrived, the characters frankly retarded and the "plot" is literally yawn-inducing. This needs to be rated below zero if it were a possibility. Heh.

On an unrelated note, two ladies bitching about the female lead, what's new? Hehe.

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I am guy and I felt that the house was filthy as well. I mean, she probably wasn't the best wife, and was just filling up her time going to pilates, and taking classes, and just not living properly and drifting through life. From what we saw in the conversation she had with her friend, she is not conceited or vain. She is just lost and undirected.

I think the character setup is more the writer and director's POV actually. Susan Montford, I don't know what else she has done, but it seems to me like she is a woman who resents the wifely womanly duties that is expected from women these days.

She writes a revenge flick about a housewife who whacks off 4 grown men and then goes home to shove a gun in her husbands face, I think she has more than a strong opinion, not so much what women are and can become, but rather what men mean to her.

Check out her picture too, she looks like she'll take your balls and replace her furry dice with them! LOL

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1848205/

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OMG! I went to the link you offered and immediately burst into laughter! I agree with your assessment. Of course the dear lady could have had a bad day when the picture was taken or a vengeful assistant uploaded the picture, but she does looked Pissed Off. Wish I knew the backstory to the picture.

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no black woman would have let kids that old get away with trashing the house like that


This statement is almost as ludicrous as this movie.

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Stirchley, her statement is not ludicrous to this fellow black woman, who was raised in a similar culture. I don't personally know any black women that would have let their kids do that and I know a lot of black women. Of course, for those who take in what the media says black culture is would disagree. Not all black people are hood rats.

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Oh please! That house was hardly "trashed" or "filthy." Trashed is what happens when there was a frat party the night before--broken glasses, plastic cups everywhere, furniture knocked over. Filthy is rotten food left in the sink, roaches crawling around, dust everywhere, stained furniture, mildew on the walls. There were a few toys scattered around the floor. What house with children ISN'T like that? I'd love to see some of your houses. And even if she wasn't the best housekeeper. Was that worth being abused? Being humiliated in front of your children by a man with SERIOUS anger issues? No. You people are overly critical douchebags. Ugh.

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agreed! i would hardly call 'toy clutter', trashed or filthy...& i don't even have kids. i am willing to bet the people commenting on how bad it is, don't have homes half the size of that. & generally people who DO have homes that size, stay-at-home mom or not, have maids. she didn't seem to have that. heck, he didn't even have her credit card filled...& she didn't appear to be very materialistic either. 20$ on wrapping paper during christmas, maybe a wii for the kids &...? what about her? & him, he said 'what did you get me'? um, well, douchebag, nothing as there was nothing in the account set aside for me. the courses she took were pilates & mechanics? yes, she sounds so spoiled & lazy *eye roll*. more like reasonable & smart.

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I might not have agreed with the husbands behavior but those kids could have been told to pick up their toys and put them away, the place looked like a freakin' Toys R' Us exploded.

"What are you some kind of half-assed astronaut?" - 'Quint' in JAWS

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the previous two posters, bindweed and nearvana are whacked. if i came home after a hard days work to a house in that condition i'd been P/O'd too. 3 able bodies and cant keep the house clean? i'll clean house

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No...the house WAS FILTHY AND TRASHED. Not HARDLY. The husband was still a scumbag bully, but YOU TRY pulling in the cash that allows for THAT house..and IF this *beep* DIDN'T BRING in the cash, you can bet she would have haulled ass off and left so 'SHE CAN GROW AS A PERSON". If you don't work out of the house........IT HAD BETTER LOOK BETTER THAN THAT. Pilates is something you do WHEN THE IMPORTANT THINGS are done.

But, if all fairness, I really don't think she had much "incentive" to make the house nice for him......but, really, this is a case of two selfish twats, the husband more than the other, making each ones life more miserable BECAUSE BOTH needed to be married to someone who ALLOWED for each others weaknesses.

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And if ANYONE thinks that house WASN'T FILTY....well it tells me just how *beep* your house is. A houswife IS a housewife. Cleaning that house is ONE OF HER RESPONSIBILITIES. Noone would UNDERSTAND if the husband didn't meet his sales quotas for the month, no excuses (Im tired, im sick, the kids...) so fair is fair. Wanna stay home?? Its a TOUGH job. Its not easy. BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE. Christmas eve.....LOOKING LIKE THAT?????

And that scumbag husband didn't help........but he's besides the point.....

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Just watched the whole movie. Any women as badassed as her could clean ANY house. She just didn't want to for such an *beep* of a husband.

This woman is one tough sob.

House be damned.

Her husband would have been sucking all of em off in the parking lot, crying like a little kid.....

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I thought the house was more a reflection of her depression...like she's shutting down under her circumstances and can't rev herself up to get things done. Or maybe it was passive-aggressive stuff aimed at her husband?

And I don't think they could afford a cleaning person...as the husband is losing a client over the phone in the opening scene, and Della's credit card is maxed out.

(I'm not in any way implying this is a good movie, BTW!)

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You watch bratty ass kids all day & see how clean your place is at the end of the day. Kids are annoying, you put the toys away they take them back out, then again & again. You get *beep* tired after awhile.



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Did you read that news story about the military mom who shot her two kids in the head because she was sick of them "mouthing off"?

Okay, that is undoubtedly an EXTREME reaction...but I will say I've met insufferable children.

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I think you were all missing the point. The point is she was clearly at the end of her tether feeling like crap and totally unassertive. He was a complete bully and she had probably totally given up and having trouble coping. The fact is MOST reasonable guys would come home from work and jokingly remark its a bit of a mess, lets get it tidy for xmas and they would do it together, NOT beat a whole in the wall and scare his wife and children,Personally im not the world's neatest person and would rather makelove to my husband than clear up and he can cope with that, we work together as a couple. NOT against eachother like enemies, which they had become. Actually thought this was quite an amusing if not perfect film. Kim who is about my mum's age and im in my thirties and i think she looks better now than she ever did, good on u kim!!
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<< quite an amusing if not perfect film. Kim who is about my mum's age and im in my thirties and i think she looks better now than she ever did, good on u kim!! >>

There is no doubt that Ms. Basinger is, and always will be, an utterly gorgeous woman.

For anyone to criticize her appearance due to age is just nitpicking.

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I agree that Kim looks wonderful for her age. She is aging most gracefully. Good for her!

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If I came home from work and my wife had the house looking like that, I'd be pissed too. They could have picked something better for him to be angry about because he had a valid complaint about the house.

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No, he didn't. There were a few toys on the floor that the kids could've easily picked up. He didn't have to throw a temper tantrum and start abusing his wife and punch a hole in the wall.

Or better yet, HE could pick up the toys himself like an adult!

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I got the impression that she was clinically depressed. If that is true, then that would explain that.

Then again, some people just aren't into housework, and do the bare minimum. I vacuum every two weeks or so, and only do the dishes when I have to. I suppose I would be a terrible wife according to the angry (probably mostly male) posters in this thread.

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The house was filthy probably because the husband himself would throw things when he gets mad.

I could tell right away, when he told his co-worker to go eff himself on the phone right before he came into the house.

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