Excess of Opinions

hollywood showed me Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet, and assumed i’d think Cameron was The Hot One(tm)?!! a surprisingly adorable movie, carried aloft by Kate and Jude’s overwhelming charm.

this just never gets old for me.

it embarrasses me how easily i am gotten by a good-quality chick flick. Cuba Gooding Jr. is hilarious, too.

cute as hell. this could have been horrifically hokey, but Anne Hathaway makes it work in a non-fakey way.

Damn you, Julia Roberts, and your infectious charm! This movie is lame, but I enjoyed it anyway.

Why couldn’t this have been made when I was an actual angsty teenager?

I dig all these movies, in spite of myself.

i literally never get tired of watching this movie. clearly a “girl movie”, but excellently done and it actually has half a brain. John Hannah would have to make it to The Mummy 17: Curse of the Clown Factory for my love to dim.

Abbie Cornish is AMAZING – i honestly only know her name from the tabloids, and was shocked at what a spectacular actor she is. she just IS her character, and can access such visibly real emotions that it literally took my breath away. Paul Schneider i recognize from Parks & Recreation, but he’s sharp and compelling here (with an adorable accent), while Ben Whishaw is suitably beautiful. young Thomas Sangster from Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is in almost every scene but gets only 3 lines!

Meryl Streep’s half is terrific and fun and irresistible , but Amy Adams is totally incapable of playing a bitch – she comes off as merely neurotic and helpless, which just makes you feel bad for her and resent that Meryl isn’t on screen. also, Stanly Tucci = completely delicious.
I think this movie suffers most from the erroneous assumption that a story about a bitchy, self-obsessed 20-something writer is as interesting or compelling as a story about Julia Child. although perhaps if poor Amy Adams was able to give depth to her character, it could have been.