oliviafarag

I feel entitled to reply back to jorgesilvamarques who hasn't seen the film but feels entitled to comment because they feel 'bombarded'.

To answer your question: what if the roles were reversed?

All drama has a speculative angle. That's why it's a drama in the first place.

I don't like the premise either but for entirely different reasons.

There are movies I won't watch purely because I know they are not my cup of tea.

But at the end of the day they are just movies, to entertain, nothing more.

Movies should be judged on how well they execute artistic expression, not whether they are crusading some kind of morality.

Yes, infidelity is wrong, but it happens. Women do have fantasies. And sordid thoughts of all sorts. That said, I don't necessarily want to watch it played out on the big screeen, and that's okay.

I hope that answers your question.

This movie obviously is meant to send up shallow celebrity culture and in this regard it's actually quite fun to watch.

But as soon as it starts to take itself too seriously that's when you think 'maybe I'll stop watching here'.

I liked the deliberate hammy acting from all the cast except Nicole Kidman who tries waaaay too hard to be like Jennifer Aniston in this movie, a ditzy, goofy, sexy intellectual. She has no comedic timing and was badly misdirected - one minute giving her familiar American voice then going full Aussie and in one scene not even acting her persona at all, just being regular Nicole. Aesthetically she looks perfect in that Hollywood way so I won't comment on her personal beauty choices.

I made it through to the end and don't think the overall idea itself is bad but the ending was way too cheesy for me.

To be honest it probably deserves a higher rating but this film just wasn't my cup of tea. It's about grotty teenage boys growing up somewhere in England and a young weasley kid who captures and trains an eagle. Then his brutal father figure does something tragic. In between there are lots of uncomfortable scenes of boys going through various rites of passage.

I saw this as part of Art Gallery of NSW's monthly film festival. An interesting curation of arthouse movies. The theatre was packed (probably cos it was free). The audience complained it needed subtitles because the Yorkshire accent was so heavy and mostly discernable. It didn't bother me because you could still get the gist of each character's sappy mood. And also reading the trivia afterwards it's hilarious that the misaphonious accent is part of the film's lore.