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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 29, 2024 21:01:53 GMT
It’s the only thing I clearly remember so I guess I thought it was pretty funny! lol I guess I’m very “cancellable”!
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Post by MagdaFR on Mar 29, 2024 21:17:22 GMT
I don't remember anything except that there was a chandelier which falls and perhaps kills somebody.
On twitter fans are not liking much OC ellie because they think
1) BC and OC look more like friends than lovers.
2) Kathleen Turner was very hot and OC isn't.
I think OC sometimes overacts.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 29, 2024 21:53:21 GMT
I like her! I don’t understand the hate! At some point, I have to confess that I fantasized with the idea of BC playing her husband in Landscapers (another black comedy about a married couple!) when I discovered the Will Sharpe connection. At the end, they cast David Thewlis who is actually much older than her. Turner is very sexy and was extremely stunning at the time. Even Douglas was frequently linked to sexy movies! So I guess that’s why they consider it a sexy film! I don’t remember anything about it but maybe it was because I was very young when I watched it! lol It probably repeated the dynamics of Douglas trying to dominate/fighting a dangerous femme fatale of a lot of his films. But what’s wrong with looking normal? The synopsis clearly says they have a great sexual life so cool normal people having sex! I personally think BC is pretty sexy but if someone doesn’t believe it, whatever! Maybe this time the movie isn’t about sexy Hollywood stars being sexy but about normal people behaving ugly! lol I think they both can be pretty funny and that they could play a nasty couple trying to destroy each other. But again, I don’t remember the movie like a comedy version of Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct! EDITED: actually if the original movie was about extremely sexy Hollywood stars, it would be a good departure to go this time for normal people played by respected British theatre actors! Im not sure but I think the chandelier scene it’s the last one and they both are killed. Maybe I’m wrong!
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Post by MagdaFR on Mar 29, 2024 22:53:03 GMT
I just want it to be clever and funny even if it is in a terrible way.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 29, 2024 22:54:35 GMT
We will see! The scriptwriter supposedly is that!
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Post by mllemass on Mar 29, 2024 23:17:01 GMT
I don’t do so well with dark comedy b/c I don’t really get it. It just seems cruel to me. I remember I didn’t care for the original very much but then again I’ve never been married or divorced so I don’t understand that urge to hate/kill your spouse. But I love both Olivia and BC so have at it, I guess. But I do remember how powerful and well made the original was. It certainly has stuck with me over the years. That was some A listing casting, for sure. I agree completely! I’ve never liked movies that were about husbands and wives hating each other. I saw bits of War of the Roses when it was on tv, but I couldn’t watch the whole thing. So it’s disappointing if it’s true that Benedict will be doing this. I do like Olivia Colman, though, and I’m happy to see them together if it’s true. Although I didn’t like KT and MD in WotR, I did like them together earlier in Romancing the Stone, and I think the sequel.
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Post by queenzod on Mar 29, 2024 23:30:29 GMT
Plot They meet fresh out of college, fall into bed together, and get married. She builds their home while he climbs the business ladder (lawyer? Cant remember). She finds a great house for them, spends 5 years decorating it, having kids. She starts hating him because he’s a suck up and inauthentic. There’s all this petty cruelty as their marriage falls apart. They’re both not nice people. Eventually she wants a divorce but they both want the house so they partition it off and both live there. It doesn’t work out very well because she hates him so much and he kinda wants to get back together but things start to spiral out of control and start getting physical. He locks them inside the house one evening. She primes the chandelier to fall on him but they both end up in it, 50 feet off the floor. It falls, killing them both. As a last gesture, he puts his hand on her shoulder, she reaches over and pushes it off. The whole story is being told by Danny DeVito to his client, an unnamed man who wants a divorce. DD tells him to go back to his wife and make it up with her.
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Post by roverpup on Mar 30, 2024 0:44:30 GMT
Speaking as a person who has been happily married for nearly 50 years, I can't wait for this movie! It will be an acting FEAST for BC.
I loved WotR! It was so deliciously subversive! Of course it was silly and over-the-top. That was the whole point.
Dark humour is specifically molded around subjects that are normally considered too serious or too painful to discuss. I think a marriage falling apart nicely lines up with that definition.
Having said that i should say that I can appreciate that it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. I'm just thanking my luck that he decided on this genre rather than my least favourite genre - musicals!
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 30, 2024 1:06:44 GMT
Also, the last scene with Danny DeVito (mentioned above) sounds pretty moralistic: divorce is evil, just try it again! lol I don’t remember it because you remember mostly the funny bits but yeah, it sounds pretty conservative. Pretty 1980s!
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 30, 2024 2:20:11 GMT
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