Hearing about Hugh Jackman in a movie called Animal Husbandry piqued my interest. I study animal behavior, after all, and mating systems are my bag, baby. Finding out Ashley Judd was in the same movie now called Someone Like You made me it lose interest quickly. But the trailer (and my sister) convinced me to go just to see Jackman sans sideburns.
I thought Jackman was as great as he was in X-Men with a totally different but equally fun and charismatic character. Every scene that he wasn't in seemed empty. His effortlessness emphasizes everyone else's struggle. Once again I wondered what the Academy was smoking when Marisa Tomei won an Oscar and what had gotten into Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets that I have never seen since. Ashley Judd: I can't even put into words how much she should not have been here. Everything she did seemed so strained and obvious from facial expressions to emotional outbursts. Ugh.
And then there was the plethora of animal imagery. Jane and Eddie live next to a meat market. Jane passes paintings of pigs on a wall. She watches the Discovery channel. And on and on. I wanted to scream "ok, I get it! Enough already!"
I did enjoy the side story of Jane's sister even though it was a plot device. It was a nice glimpse of reality outside of Jane's ego-centric problems.
Finally, a little thing I noticed. I'm probably over-anylizing but this was so obvious. In the beginning of the movie, Jane is constantly eating in almost every scene. Then one night, Eddie explains that his only reason that he left a woman that day was because she dug into a pint of Haegen-Daz as soon as they got home from dinner. Jane (who is currently in the middle of a package of Oreos) heatedly questions him as to what exactly is so terrible about a non-fat woman having something to eat. He just storms out. I don't think she is shown eating for the rest of the movie. What's the meaning behind this? That she's faling in love and doesn't even know? That she's changing for him? Was it intentional? Am I looking too deep into this?
I'm a little biased since I despise all romantic-comedies due to the fact that I am a bitter lonely soul.
I'm glad I only paid $4.50 for this movie but I can't wait to see Swordfish, hopefully something more worthy of Hugh Jackman.
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Maybe you should put some shorts on or something if you wanna keep fighting evil today.
I thought Jackman was as great as he was in X-Men with a totally different but equally fun and charismatic character. Every scene that he wasn't in seemed empty. His effortlessness emphasizes everyone else's struggle. Once again I wondered what the Academy was smoking when Marisa Tomei won an Oscar and what had gotten into Greg Kinnear in As Good As It Gets that I have never seen since. Ashley Judd: I can't even put into words how much she should not have been here. Everything she did seemed so strained and obvious from facial expressions to emotional outbursts. Ugh.
And then there was the plethora of animal imagery. Jane and Eddie live next to a meat market. Jane passes paintings of pigs on a wall. She watches the Discovery channel. And on and on. I wanted to scream "ok, I get it! Enough already!"
I did enjoy the side story of Jane's sister even though it was a plot device. It was a nice glimpse of reality outside of Jane's ego-centric problems.
Finally, a little thing I noticed. I'm probably over-anylizing but this was so obvious. In the beginning of the movie, Jane is constantly eating in almost every scene. Then one night, Eddie explains that his only reason that he left a woman that day was because she dug into a pint of Haegen-Daz as soon as they got home from dinner. Jane (who is currently in the middle of a package of Oreos) heatedly questions him as to what exactly is so terrible about a non-fat woman having something to eat. He just storms out. I don't think she is shown eating for the rest of the movie. What's the meaning behind this? That she's faling in love and doesn't even know? That she's changing for him? Was it intentional? Am I looking too deep into this?
I'm a little biased since I despise all romantic-comedies due to the fact that I am a bitter lonely soul.
I'm glad I only paid $4.50 for this movie but I can't wait to see Swordfish, hopefully something more worthy of Hugh Jackman.
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Maybe you should put some shorts on or something if you wanna keep fighting evil today.
