regexfan

This season (season 5) has been great so far. I loved every episode so far, but this episode was really bad. I hardly laughed, and this Kelly character is so annoying. Not sure why they think it's a good idea to add her to the already perfect cast.

Maybe I'm getting old. I don't know how old everyone who wrote all the glowing reviews here was, but I'm a 38 year old woman and.even though I realized one of the main actresses is actually only a couple of years younger than me, when the movie was made both of them looked very, very young. The actress who played Adele looked way too young, her face was very child-like, like 15 or 16 in this movie. Watching these two very, very young looking actresses engage in very long, very explicit sex scenes was uncomfortable and felt very wrong to me, almost like watching a child engage in sexual acts with another child, it felt so violating even to me as a viewer. Two hours was all I could take, I did not finish the movie. I would think the reason this movie was rated so highly is because it appeals to the straight male demographic and the under 25 lesbians and gays. As for the rest of us lesbians over the age of 25, we know better. This is why I rarely want to watch lesbian movies, because they are usually made in the perspective of straight men for mainly straight men. The 3 star rating is only for the actress who played Emma, who I think was very natural, and very believable as a lesbian (even though she's not one in real life). I wouldn't recommend this movie to older lesbian/gay demographic.

I had high expectations for this movie. With the high rating and glowing reviews, and some people dubbing it as "the greatest lesbian romantic movie", I was expecting to see something really good. Man, was I let down. Rooney Mara can't act to save her life. I've seen her in other movies before and she was always this stiff. Not sure how she can even have a career in acting. She always had the same facial expression, the same delivery for every line, she reminds me of Zooey Deschanel who also always had the same facial expression and the same line delivery in all her movies. Cate Blanchett was okay but she seemed to be too absorbed in making her character look and sound "50s classy". I don't know what the director was aiming for here but it's clear that character development and story were the least of his concern. The director was probably too focused on making a "pretty" film or a film that wins awards rather than a film that the viewers can relate to on a personal level. No character development, no buildup, no soul, dull, very unconvincing romance.