I saw Chicago the other night. I'm not much of a musical fan but I did love Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. And here was an Oscar winning musical that was all the rage.
For what? This film deserved only ONE Oscar nomination and that was for Richard Gere who stretched himself with an incredible un-Gere-esque performance. And he wasn't nominated.
Nearly every other aspect of this film was bad, bad, bad.
1) Renee Zelweger - so what if she looks like nothing on earth? She can act! Can't she? What? She can't? Ok, then she's truly good for nothing
2) Catherine Zeta Jones - this woman can act (she's lost her looks though) but she is pushed into the back rows of this film with a minor supporting role
3) The music - this is a musical, there have to be songs - in S of Music the songs were good , hell they were great. Not one song in this pathetic film is catchy or good. Not one song lasts in your head as you come out of the movie except for All that Jazz - which lasts in your head because the main line is musically out of sync and off-beat with the rest of the song!
4) The plot - is quite intricate - for a 1 year old. No harm done, we don't expect great plots in musicals. But this one comes under the "who gives a rats ..." category. It is beyond lame.
5) When you get out of the theater, you find that you couldn't have cared less for any other characters - Velma, Roxy and frankly, you just wished they were all dead
6) Ok, so some say that one should'nt dissect a film as long as it provided entertainment. Fine. This film is BORING people. I heard that the Hours is a slow mover. After seeing this, The Hours might be non-stop, edge-of-your-seat action that never lets up!
Just when I would start getting into the dialogue, they fade reality into a pathetically low-beat, dull, unattractive song made even more unattractive by Zelweger who looks like troll.
The Oscars have fallen from grace over the past 20 odd years and this is truly the final nail in its coffin.
Btw, I had a friend who saw it in England who walked out of it in 5 minutes. If you want to torture someone, or lure them into a coma or get even with someone who did something to you once, then CHICAGO is the movie for them.
And if in the highly, highly, highly unlikely event that the Oscar was awarded to the truly best picture, then this is THE worst year in movie history.
Shardik
For what? This film deserved only ONE Oscar nomination and that was for Richard Gere who stretched himself with an incredible un-Gere-esque performance. And he wasn't nominated.
Nearly every other aspect of this film was bad, bad, bad.
1) Renee Zelweger - so what if she looks like nothing on earth? She can act! Can't she? What? She can't? Ok, then she's truly good for nothing
2) Catherine Zeta Jones - this woman can act (she's lost her looks though) but she is pushed into the back rows of this film with a minor supporting role
3) The music - this is a musical, there have to be songs - in S of Music the songs were good , hell they were great. Not one song in this pathetic film is catchy or good. Not one song lasts in your head as you come out of the movie except for All that Jazz - which lasts in your head because the main line is musically out of sync and off-beat with the rest of the song!
4) The plot - is quite intricate - for a 1 year old. No harm done, we don't expect great plots in musicals. But this one comes under the "who gives a rats ..." category. It is beyond lame.
5) When you get out of the theater, you find that you couldn't have cared less for any other characters - Velma, Roxy and frankly, you just wished they were all dead
6) Ok, so some say that one should'nt dissect a film as long as it provided entertainment. Fine. This film is BORING people. I heard that the Hours is a slow mover. After seeing this, The Hours might be non-stop, edge-of-your-seat action that never lets up!
Just when I would start getting into the dialogue, they fade reality into a pathetically low-beat, dull, unattractive song made even more unattractive by Zelweger who looks like troll.
The Oscars have fallen from grace over the past 20 odd years and this is truly the final nail in its coffin.
Btw, I had a friend who saw it in England who walked out of it in 5 minutes. If you want to torture someone, or lure them into a coma or get even with someone who did something to you once, then CHICAGO is the movie for them.
And if in the highly, highly, highly unlikely event that the Oscar was awarded to the truly best picture, then this is THE worst year in movie history.
Shardik
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