@CherryAmes_CruiseNurse: SO - we need to start a Southern Gothic Jezzies chapter on Facebook and get a dang meet-up with juleps, fried chicken and red velvet cupcakes.
@CherryAmes_CruiseNurse: Ok, where in Durham are they filming? I live in Chapel Hill, I'm unemployed, and I got plenty of time to go watch a movie being filmed!
Is Ellen Burstyn playing a Southern writer? Flannery? Eudora? Harper Lee? Or is she the disgruntled widow of a large plantation owner, currently in ruins, formerly prosperous? This picture is worth 1,000 stories.
I feel like a cat on a hot tin roof during these long hot summers, Baby Doll. Maybe after this property is condemned, I'll take a streetcar named desire down to Cape Fear for some deliverance from this heat.
@PilgrimSoul: I know her mother! Jackie Clarkson is a Dem Rep in NOLA, and my BIL caught got streaking past her house. At least she had a sense of humor about it.
Um, there was a whole story in the NYT about Armisen and Moss and how they are dating and how they like to play Rock Band with the cast of Speed the Plow.
You know what? If the height of the intellect of films directed at me because I'm a WOMAN (gasp!) is Mamma Mia, I'm sewing my vagina shut right now in protest.
@cuteasabutton says Eff it, let's get a taco.: Hey, no one said it's not allowed to be enjoyed. Not everything has to be intellectual or empowering to be acceptable pop culture for feminists, but seriously... it's not defining of a female audience, is it?!
@Miss Carrie Nation: I don't think that the argument was that Mamma Mia was the most intelligent film ever, but rather that it was a film made for women, the forgotten demographic. I liked it, I thought it was fun, but it did not change my life. I certainly thought it was better than most of what Hollywood thinks women like.
That being said, it could have used more explosions.
@Miss Carrie Nation: You make many good points - while I enjoy that movie as frivolous entertainment, I do wish that there was more intelligent fare for women. What bothers me most is how hollywood adds superfluous love stories in an attempt to woo women. Oh wait, I forgot, we women are all one dimensional! How silly of me.
In my admittedly biased and bitter opinion, men are the default demographic. Otherwise, "chick flick" would not be a defined (if usually crappy) genre.
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American Gothic, momma let me be-hee.
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I had crabs once in Baltimore and they were delicious.
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I totes want to play rock band with them. Hey, Fred and Lizzie (I love that he calls her Lizzie): I'm pretty solid on the drums. Call me!
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If they say otherwise they're a liar, or possibly a Cylon.
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That being said, it could have used more explosions.
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Also, good points about Hollywood's 'women' aimed films in general. I'd pick Mamma Mia over Bride Wars any day of the week.
It's just that I don't see many films being called 'man films' these days. Maybe I need to open my damn eyes.
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In my admittedly biased and bitter opinion, men are the default demographic. Otherwise, "chick flick" would not be a defined (if usually crappy) genre.