This movie looks good and I will probably see it but mostly it just seems like Bend it Like Beckham for America. I've even noticed a part in the preview where Ellen Page is obviously at a pageant and her dad hands her her roller skates. That totally parallels the scene in Bend it Like Beckham where Jess is at her sister's wedding and the dad tells her to go ahead and play in the finals that day.
@lola_in_the_dark: It's a coming of age story, so, you'll find that kind of parallel in almost any movie with that core theme. So, sure, there are probably parallels to that...just like there are to other movies.
@tiredfairy: I know that there are a lot of coming of age stories but it threw me for a loop when I saw the dad actually handing her the skates while she's in a pageant dress. In Bend it Like Beckham Jess is wearing a sari.
I rarely go to the movies because I really do hate just about everything that hollywood puts out, but both this and Capitalism: A Love Story opened today. I've never had two movies that i actually WANTED to see playing at the same time. I had to make a choice as to which one to see though, and one.
I am *really* excited about this! I'm having a resurgence of 90s nostalgia with it that I felt with movies like Mad Love and Dazed and Confused, even though I imagine it takes place in the present day, yes?
Does anyone else pine for the bleach-blonde rebel-Drew days when she was kind of a grunge princess, ala Wayne's World 2 or Mad Love?
I saw a free screening of this on Tuesday and I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. The plot in and of itself isn't groundbreaking, but there's a lot of little side moments along the way that just feel very real and relatable in a way that overcomes the cliched "butterfly spreading her wings" message. And Ellen Page was great but Kristen Wiig nearly stole the movie out from under her. Alia Shawkat had some nice moments too.
@RustyHeadedGirl: Well, no plot is really all that ground-breaking when you think about it. They can usually all be boiled down to something used over and over...and nearly all stories are a "quest" of some kind.
I don't need a revolutionary plot, I just want a well told story.
If anyone's in Austin TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls, the league the film's league is based on will be working at the Alamo Ritz and the Regal Gateway theaters.
I know it's blasphemy, but I really liked the new Indy, and I'll probably see the next one, too. Maybe it's the other cinematic steaming piles of crap out there making it look good, but I don't care. I'm looking forward to it.
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Oh, dear.
Not that I can afford to be vain about my "early poems", but I'm not sure who decided this was a good idea. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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The Cant, ohs.
The Chode Not Take.
Where the Side-eye Ends.
Man, Fred.
Peeves of Ass. #kristenwiigreadssuzannesomers
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I rarely go to the movies because I really do hate just about everything that hollywood puts out, but both this and Capitalism: A Love Story opened today. I've never had two movies that i actually WANTED to see playing at the same time. I had to make a choice as to which one to see though, and one.
Ellen Page has stolen my heart.
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Does anyone else pine for the bleach-blonde rebel-Drew days when she was kind of a grunge princess, ala Wayne's World 2 or Mad Love?
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I don't need a revolutionary plot, I just want a well told story.
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Come meet us and talk derby!!
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I am way, waaaay too excited by this.
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