On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 2:54:16 PM UTC-4, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
Having arrived at a generally dim view of the opposite sex, a young
woman wages a formal vendetta against them. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is a
multiple Oscar-nominee, including B.P. and, more promisingly, Best
Screenplay, which it won. Its genre is better left undescribed (which
wouldn't be easy, anyway), but suffice to say that most every scene
feels crisp, original, and engaging throughout. Well recommended.
At least it wasn't a slasher film. It's a revenge film that could have been called I Spit On Your PhD. I wanted a little more intensity, but it wasn't a waste of time.
On 7/5/2021 5:15 PM, william ahearn wrote:
On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 2:54:16 PM UTC-4, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote:
Having arrived at a generally dim view of the opposite sex, a young
woman wages a formal vendetta against them. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is a
multiple Oscar-nominee, including B.P. and, more promisingly, Best
Screenplay, which it won. Its genre is better left undescribed (which
wouldn't be easy, anyway), but suffice to say that most every scene
feels crisp, original, and engaging throughout. Well recommended.
At least it wasn't a slasher film. It's a revenge film that could have
been called I Spit On Your PhD. I wanted a little more intensity, but
it wasn't a waste of time.
I found myself slowly being drawn into it and watched with interest to
the end but... Look, I love a good revenge plot. Count of Monte Cristo, Death Wish, even Hamlet is a pretty good tale. But much as I really
really liked meeting Carey Mulligan whom I hope to see someday in better things, and much as I applaud the ... um ... examination of fratboy
culture, I really felt dirty watching this movie. It just didn't work
for me. I wouldn't recommend this one to anybody and to say more would
give too much away.
On 8/1/2021 11:42 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
On 7/5/2021 5:15 PM, william ahearn wrote:
On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 2:54:16 PM UTC-4, pwal...@moviepig.com wrote: >>>> Having arrived at a generally dim view of the opposite sex, a young
woman wages a formal vendetta against them. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is a >>>> multiple Oscar-nominee, including B.P. and, more promisingly, Best
Screenplay, which it won. Its genre is better left undescribed (which
wouldn't be easy, anyway), but suffice to say that most every scene
feels crisp, original, and engaging throughout. Well recommended.
At least it wasn't a slasher film. It's a revenge film that could
have been called I Spit On Your PhD. I wanted a little more
intensity, but it wasn't a waste of time.
I found myself slowly being drawn into it and watched with interest to
the end but... Look, I love a good revenge plot. Count of Monte
Cristo, Death Wish, even Hamlet is a pretty good tale. But much as I
really really liked meeting Carey Mulligan whom I hope to see someday
in better things, and much as I applaud the ... um ... examination of
fratboy culture, I really felt dirty watching this movie. It just
didn't work for me. I wouldn't recommend this one to anybody and to
say more would give too much away.
"Meeting"? Surprised you didn't see DRIVE or GATSBY.
On 8/2/2021 8:42 AM, moviePig wrote:
On 8/1/2021 11:42 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
On 7/5/2021 5:15 PM, william ahearn wrote:
On Monday, July 5, 2021 at 2:54:16 PM UTC-4, pwal...@moviepig.com
wrote:
Having arrived at a generally dim view of the opposite sex, a young
woman wages a formal vendetta against them. PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is a >>>>> multiple Oscar-nominee, including B.P. and, more promisingly, Best
Screenplay, which it won. Its genre is better left undescribed (which >>>>> wouldn't be easy, anyway), but suffice to say that most every scene
feels crisp, original, and engaging throughout. Well recommended.
At least it wasn't a slasher film. It's a revenge film that could
have been called I Spit On Your PhD. I wanted a little more
intensity, but it wasn't a waste of time.
I found myself slowly being drawn into it and watched with interest
to the end but... Look, I love a good revenge plot. Count of Monte
Cristo, Death Wish, even Hamlet is a pretty good tale. But much as I
really really liked meeting Carey Mulligan whom I hope to see someday
in better things, and much as I applaud the ... um ... examination of
fratboy culture, I really felt dirty watching this movie. It just
didn't work for me. I wouldn't recommend this one to anybody and to
say more would give too much away.
"Meeting"? Surprised you didn't see DRIVE or GATSBY.
You know me -- always full of surprises. I think I tried to watch Leo's Gatsby. Or maybe I watched the whole thing and now I remember almost
nothing. It's a terrific book, though.
The more I've thought about this one the less I like it. With the
exception of a few peripheral characters like the coffee shop owner and
the parents, everybody in this movie behaved abominably and I have to
wonder what the movie wanted from me? To take pleasure in or even
identify with anything I saw? To find catharsis is something? What would
that be? It was just one character after another either doing the wrong
thing or failing to do the right thing. And don't get me started on the perfectly timed manipulations from beyond the grave or the boy band fan
who had to be exactly where she was at exactly the right time and behave exactly as the script required. This story was absurd, but events like
the one that set this story in motion are real and they are detestable
and perpetrators get appointed to the Supreme Court. We live in that
world. This movie, though, offered no insights, no hope, for what might actually be done to change things. It was a sordid tale and yeah, I felt soiled by it.
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