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Ugly Betty: Swag (2007)
Swag Question- spoilers
In the episode "Swag" everybody talks about how everyone will know if Betty gets a knockoff.
But then Walter gives her a knockoff that she then gives to Marc and he accepts it as real, in exchange for a favor AND A KNOCKOFF.
Unless Walter got the real bag back from the pharmacist? But then who paid for the 15 refills of Ignacio's medicine?
?? How'd that happen?
Also annoying that this episode on both Netflix and Hulu is aired without any "flashback" so all of the confusing "I thought she already knew Henry" and "if she's been working there for months, how did she just now get paid" questions linger.
Nine (2009)
Not as bad as everyone thought.
I pre-ordered the DVD so I got it yesterday. It never did play in my town.
Watched it tonight.
I can see why it bombed- not enough skin, explosions or loud noises. What you do get is a lot of smoking (ick) and hot women being hot. And Daniel Day-Lewis being a tortured artist.
Fergie was surprisingly good, she didn't really have an "acting" part but she really does have decent singing chops and OMG BOOBIES. Wow.
Penelope Cruz, who I usually think is some stick insect with a really big noggin is curvy and hot and wow.
Marianne Cotillard is gorgeous. So reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn, but then they put her in a bustier and pasties and, um... wow.
Nicole Kidman. Meh. "Central casting? Yeah- I need a tall statue that can walk. Nicole Kidman's available? Great. Truck her on up." Kate Hudson's part was really overplayed in the trailers, I'm guessing cuz she's cute and blonde and kicky and fringy. Not bad though.
Judi Densch. I just love her. She cracks my s**t up.
Sophia Loren is finally showing her age, but she's what? 157? There's a scene where she dances with the young Guido, and then with the grown up Guido (DDL) that is exquisite. It really brought tears to my eyes. It could be because I'm an emotional shipwreck today for a hundred other reasons, but I did love that scene.
Anyway- the movie isn't destined to go down in history as the high point of anyone's career, but it's better than you'd think it was from the reviews and the box office.
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Disturbing, beautiful.
Not for the squeamish of heart. Not because of violence or anything, but it is a disturbing kind of movie, touching on isolation, bad parenting, snakes, incest, urban sprawl, drugs, ideals gone awry, the similarities of enemies and death.
I'm usually fond of Catherine Keener, but I really wanted to slap the ever-lovin' crap out of her in this movie. Then set the snake on her. Bitch.
Camilla Belle is weirdly transcendent as Rose, the dangerously innocent teenaged daughter. "Wild Thing" as Keener's character's extra-creepy son puts it. (there are two sons. One extra-creepy, one only mildly creepy) Daniel Day-Lewis continually amazes me at the rigors he puts himself through to achieve accuracy of role. As Jack, it is quite believable that he's a man on the short road to death. His body looks as though a light wind would knock him down, and when I saw him shirtless, I wondered how he could breathe with no space for his lungs to exist in his sunken chest. It was like looking at Gollum.
Beautifully directed by Rebecca Miller, who also wrote the novel on which it's based. Cinematographically (is that a word?) it's stunning- she's well on her way to being a much sought out director if she can direct someone else's works with the same deft touch as she uses on her own.
Anyway- not one for the kiddies, and it's left me feeling melancholy and kind of empty. Sad for the characters I was pulling so hard for.
I liked it. :)