Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being-and each has met an untimely end. I was hoping for an alternate ending in which Ernest exposes the society of immortals to the public and a mass media witch hunt ensues, but the actual ending isn't that bad and works well too.The New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth brings to life a highly romantic, Gothic-infused world of wealth, desire, and betrayal. Actually, it's completely different and unexpected and the sheer weirdness of this flick earns it some points. It quickly becomes apparent that what you thought this was going in isn't what this is at all. But really, the first thirty-some minutes feel like a complete separate movie from the remainder of it. Going into this I thought, "oh, this is a standard story about two women fighting over a man! I've seen this type of thing before!". This is a campy horror flick, so I suppose the point was to make it as over-the-top as they could, and I think they managed to do that and then some. And once you've seen a couple variations of a disfigured body even that can get sort of redundant. I'd say that Meryl bitching is delightful at first, but verges on grating by the end. It sounds grotesque, and at times I was wincing, but overall it was pretty cool to see what they could accomplish. The other 20% of the film are special effects that stretch and disfigure human bodies in just about every configuration imaginable, the caveat being that the bodies are of people that are still alive and speaking. In fact, 80% of this movie is Meryl and Goldie Hawn verbally abusing and emasculating their co-star Bruce Willis. And the award for the snarkiest woman in history goes to: Meryl Streep! This movie proves that Meryl knows how to play a snarky woman better than almost anyone else.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |