Re: Summer Movies, 2004
Ria, on host 68.127.116.146
Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 18:01:08
Summer Movies, 2004 posted by Sam on Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 10:27:34:
> April 30 - Mean Girls > > Lindsay Lohan, who has so far built her career on better-than-average Disney remakes (Freaky Friday, The Parent Trap), is hot right now, but the demographic is all wrong for me. The early word suggests this could be pretty good; for me the question is whether I care.
Lindsay Lohan is figuring she won't get this many deals as she gets much older, so she's making all fifty of her lifetime movies in a five-year span. Okay, it's more like five movies in a three-year span (but three of them releasing just this year)... it's almost overwhelming.
I don't mind her movies, but they aren't exactly favorites (although undoubtedly every single one of my female school friends will go nuts over so many high-school-targeted chick flicks are being released at one time, and I'll be subjected to multiple movie nights and multiple viewings of each film). Lindsay Lohan is at least better than Hilary Duff.
> May 14 - Troy > > Wolfgang Petersen can be fantastic with intimate action movies, and I suspect he'll be as successful keeping a grand epic personal in scope. The Iliad is a great enough story that even bad movies about them can almost be compelling: witness, for example, the poor yet very watchable Helen of Troy miniseries from last year. "Troy" has spectacular promise, particularly with its cast, which ranges all the way from Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom to Peter O'Toole and Julie Christie. The trailers suggest it could go overboard on spectacle, but it all depends on how able the movie's tone is to sell it.
More specifically:
> Orlando Bloom
Why? :(
Am I the only girl on earth who neither finds him attractive nor thinks he can act? Was it Sam, Stephen, or Dave that had something against Keanu Reeves and how his only facial expression is "confused"? Orlando Bloom is the Keanu Reeves of the "determined" look, only it just winds up looking ridiculous. I'm beginning to think "Orli" belongs in movies aimed specifically at the teenage girl crowd (like the ones Lindsay Lohan is in), because "Orli" in the otherwise-good action flicks just isn't working for me.
> June 25 - Two Brothers > > Director Jean-Jacques Annaud is responsible for some of the most boring, overpraised movies ever. If this movie, about a couple of tiger cubs, is as tedious as "The Bear," count me out.
I recognize the instrumental piece in the trailer for this movie, but I don't know what it's from. It's been bugging me for awhile.
> July 19 - A Cinderella Story > > Hilary Duff is a lot like Lindsay Lohan right now. For my money, two modern day teen fairy tales in the last two weeks is enough.
Only Lindsay Lohan actually gets somewhat varying roles, while the only role Hilary Duff can play is the fashion-diva, boy-obsessed, huffy pre-teen girl.
Hopefully my friends won't notice this one, what with all the *other* teen-targeted romance movies coming out this year. It would mean I'd get spared ever seeing it.
Ria
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