No End In Cite

16. Nov, 2007 1 Comment

Margot At The Wedding
Fornever Holding It’s Peace
Trailers & Mo

After the critical darling that was The Squid and The Whale, all delighted eyes were zeroed in on writer/director Noah Baumbach’s follow-up project. Who woulda thunk though that it would come purty darn close to being a total zero? Sadly, it’s a question I’ll be asking for quite some time. Picking up on where he left off with horrible people acting horrible to one another, Margot centers on the dysfunctional sisterhood of Nicole Kidman and Baumbach’s real-life wife Jennifer Jason Leigh. While Whale had some sympathetic characters that we could actually pull for (I was totally rooting for Billy Baldwin’s Ivan), Margot has none, and that’s why, for me, it doesn’t work. It’s endless bickering that goes nowhere cept on and on. By the time the credits were rollin, it seems like nothing had transpired, but then again, I cared so little for these deplorable peeps, it didn’t bother me one bit. The only thang that bothered me was how great Jack Black was. I’m glad he kept the stache but dropped the whole luchadore outfit. I smell a winning formula for the mos tenacious one

We Love: Halley Feiffer, almost more than Baumbach. Hollywurst, please cast Jules‘ daughter in anything and everything

John Grisham’s Jizzum (aka Verdict): Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges

Redacted
Army Fatigue
Trailer

Poor Brian De Palma. Over the years, many have accused him of being a hack, and in some instances, they’re right. But lately in his career, he isn’t a hack as much as he’s juss a poor opportunist. It seems that he keeps delivering movies in a market already saturated with the same product. In 2000 it was Red Planet to his equally popcorny Mission To Mars. In 2006 it was Hollywoodland to his equally lame Black Dahilia. And in 2007 it’s every movie you can think of about the Middle East to his well intentioned, but poorly executed/overacted Redacted. And that’s really all I have to say about it. This redundant trend will end next year when De Palms returns to hackdom, hacking himself with a Untouchables prequel, Capone Rising, with King Leojacka$$ blasphemin on Connery’s Oscar-winning role as Jimmy Malone