Your thread had an empty OP, so I couldn’t post to it. So you liked it? You mean the new one, right? Just curious to hear from someone who did.
It was ok but nothing like the first Bridget Jones movie. The character is really memorable, but while watching the second movie I kept on thinking “Where did she learned that stupid walk?” Did she always walk like a two year old wearing her mum’s high heels?
Although Colin Firth and Hugh Grant did wonderful jobs, I was disappointed in Rene Zellweger’s acting in this go around. She came across as that morphed two year old which is embarassing.
I went to see BJ(EOR) with Lillith Fair so until she chimes in, I’ll tell you that I liked it too. There was a lot of stuff that was annoying, like the inability to walk in high heels and the total lack of basic foundation on the girl’s face. Come on, I walk by this gigantic poster of the movie everyday at work, and her face is perfectly made-up. Then she spends the entire movie as blotchy as the lead character in Monster Add that to the fact that Rene Zellweger has an uncanny resemblance to my ex-sister-in-law about the face, and realize that I spent way too much time staring at her face when I could have been staring at Colin Firth.
But it was a fun movie. Not great cinematic art. Just a fun couple of hours. The fight scene itself was worth the price of admission, because that’s how fights are in real life…lots of awkward pushing and shoving and very little actual hitting involved. But the audience was laughing through the whole movie…actually, we were laughing before the movie began. One of the trailers was hysterical, though I can’t remember the name of the movie, but Barbra Stesiand is in it. The scene where the cat flushes the dog had everyone roaring, and then after it was over, one woman up front couldn’t stop laughing, and soon the whole theater was laughing again along with her, just because she was so giggly. And then Bridget Jones started, and we were already predisposed to mirth.
So it was fun, and light and romantic and silly and a good antidote to a dreary week.
The Times hated Blow Job (Eat Or Run), said Renee Zellweger was ghastly, and the direction was just bad slapstick.
Not that I always agree with the Times . . .
Well, I liked it enough to go see it again by myself yesterday afternoon.
But Colin Firth is my 2nd favorite actor. No first. No second. No first. Well, definitely second or first. The other one is Charles Dance.
In this movie there are more incidences of him looking at Bridget like she is sweet and lovely and he is in love with her, and there is more kissing. But he also has his imperious, “I’m smarter than you” looks, as well.
It’s one thing to be a little klutzy or get things wrong, it’s quite another to ALWAYS dress wrong. I mean, her choices of clothing are bad every time, and she has to get the cab driver to help her decide what to wear for the big apology.
Also, supposedly she gained the same amount of weight this time, but she looks worse somehow. In the last movie, even though she is described as fat, I thought she looked great. She looked a weight I would like to be. In this one not so much. But Mark Darcy liked her “jiggly bits.”
Mark’s mother was a different actess, not that it really mattered. So was Magda.
Okay, I want to see it again.
Hey, Kittenblue, I loaned the first movie to KRK once, and she hated it. She couldn’t understand the English accents. Funny!
No matter what mistakes I have made in raising my children, the one thing I got right was bringing them up watching British television. They can understand any accent out there. I’m so proud…
That would be Meet the Fockers, the sequel to one of the most sadistic movies ever made, Meet the Parents. (I’ll probably end up renting it when it comes out on DVD anyway.)
I saw Bridget Joens. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t as good as the first. It’s harder to deal with Bridget’s whining when she actually has a boyfriend this go around. Plus, the timing of the movie or something felt off.
I went with my girl, and after dousing our popcorn with extra salt (ooooh yeah) we were horrified to watch this flick. Was ANYONE else perturbed by the scenes in Thailand? I know, it’s a comedy, and lord help me I was trying to laugh I really was, but honestly: those women? those dance scenes? I agree the fight scene was worth the price of admission, especially with the background music, but really, the Thailand prison scenes embarassed me. As in “embarassed for the filmmaker and the entire cast.” Oh, good god almighty.
-n