Who said anything about hate? As Nate said, the horse laugh is in every trailer of every Roberts movie, so it must be thought to be her big selling point. Pointing it out doesn’t make it less of a horse laugh.
Heck, if you’re talking box office even Larry Crowne wasn’t a flop. It had a budget of thirty million and it earned over fifty million (pre-DVD release).
I don’t want to oversell this movie. Like I said, I thought it was okay.
But while I like a good comic book movie or teen comedy as much as the next guy, it’s nice that somebody was making a movie aimed at an adult audience.
I saw the movie when it came out, only because my wie wanted to see it.
Overall… it was less painful than a lot of movies she’s chosen, but it had almost nothing to recommend it. It wasn’t terrible, but I kept thinking of critic John Simon’s patented line: “Why was this film made?”
The ONLY performer in the entire movie who seemed to be having any fun at all was George Takei.
Definitely. The Takei scenes were the best part of the movie. I also liked Cedric the Entertainer’s character. And while I thought her character was a cliche, I liked Gugu Mbatha-Raw and hope she gets better roles (Undercovers and Touch don’t qualify).
The heck with her, I want to know what happened to Meg Ryan.
She didn’t make the switch. Look at actresses like Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock - they knew that “cute girl next door” roles would start growing thin once they got past thirty. So they were smart and worked on building a reputation as an adult actress while they were still hot commodities.
Ryan coasted. She made a few half-hearted attempts at other types of roles but she didn’t push it enough. She kept taking the easy roles. The problem was that she eventually got replaced in those types of roles and she hadn’t established herself as an adult actress.
I wanted to just say Thank You to both of you.
I wondered what this character type was called and now I know.
The Annie Hall Home is priceless.