When a film's finest performance comes from Puffy, you know you're in trouble.
I've never racism, poverty, murder, and guilt so maudlinly handled without a second of truth.
I'll just list why I hated this movie:
1. Billy Bob, in the stiffest performance EVER, manages to recover from his life-long racism because Halle Berry's hot.
2. To demonstrate that she's poor, Halle Berry drives a car that has apparently been drenched in acid rain.
3. Berry wins the Oscar for SCREAMS and CROCODILE TEARS. The scene where she consumates her hormones with Billy Bob would be very much at home on Mystery Science Theater. Or in any movie with the word "Rod," "Suckers" "15", "Crack", or "Only in the...." in the tite.
4. Peter Boyle looks like he just woke up for each take.
5. Dramatic cross cutting allows us to watch Billy Bob buy ice cream and gas. WHAT THE F%^$?
6. Last like: "I need somebody to take care of me." Somewhere, Gloria Steinman is baning her head against the wall.
7. Chocolate ice cream with a plastic spoon. That's a character detail. Damn it to hell!!!!
And yet, critics, audiences, and the Academy loved it. Has anybody actually been in a poor rural town for even a second? Or read any Steinbeck novels? Or seen somebody cry? Or heard people speak? I adore rotten movies. I DESPISE "Serious" films that don't have a even a second of human truth. Shame on all of you for liking this one.
I've never racism, poverty, murder, and guilt so maudlinly handled without a second of truth.
I'll just list why I hated this movie:
1. Billy Bob, in the stiffest performance EVER, manages to recover from his life-long racism because Halle Berry's hot.
2. To demonstrate that she's poor, Halle Berry drives a car that has apparently been drenched in acid rain.
3. Berry wins the Oscar for SCREAMS and CROCODILE TEARS. The scene where she consumates her hormones with Billy Bob would be very much at home on Mystery Science Theater. Or in any movie with the word "Rod," "Suckers" "15", "Crack", or "Only in the...." in the tite.
4. Peter Boyle looks like he just woke up for each take.
5. Dramatic cross cutting allows us to watch Billy Bob buy ice cream and gas. WHAT THE F%^$?
6. Last like: "I need somebody to take care of me." Somewhere, Gloria Steinman is baning her head against the wall.
7. Chocolate ice cream with a plastic spoon. That's a character detail. Damn it to hell!!!!
And yet, critics, audiences, and the Academy loved it. Has anybody actually been in a poor rural town for even a second? Or read any Steinbeck novels? Or seen somebody cry? Or heard people speak? I adore rotten movies. I DESPISE "Serious" films that don't have a even a second of human truth. Shame on all of you for liking this one.