Smidget Reviews
Oct. 20th, 2004 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxYes, yes. I know I'm evil. And yes, I clearly have "issues" as I have have grown to loathe SMG. This being the case, I have to giggle at the reviews of her new movie:
My favorite review:
Heh! Sounds like her last two years as Buffy!
Other reviews:
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(Of course, that's SMG's specialty)
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My favorite review:
The acting is atrocious. Gellar continuously appears to be on the
verge of tears and lets her long sleeve turtleneck sweater do
the acting for her.
Heh! Sounds like her last two years as Buffy!
Other reviews:
I could be a believer if the film's characters weren't such obeisant
gluttons for punishment. Why don't they just run? If they did we
wouldn't be paying our hard-earned dollars to sit in a darkened
theater and be terrorized by someone else's stupidity
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The biggest compliment I could give THE GRUDGE would be to call it a
pale imitation of THE RING. There is no spark to the production, no
chemistry between the actors and no real scares[...]These scenes are
eerily reminiscent of Gellar's turn in Scream 2, right down to her
wardrobe. THE GRUDGE is so desperate to be like THE RING that it
copies some of its most popular scenes and scenarios almost down to
the letter.{...} The acting is atrocious. Gellar continuously appears
to be on the verge of tears and lets her long sleeve turtleneck
sweater do the acting for her.
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The problem isn't in understanding what's going on; it's in not
caring {...} . As for Gellar, she spends the entire film walking
around looking dazed, uncomfortable and befuddled.
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The Grudge now concerns an American exchange student named Karen
(Sarah Michelle Gellar) who's stationed in urban Japan with her
boyfriend, Doug (Jason Behr), who is slightly prettier than she is.
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The Grudge is completely free of those tedious drags character
development, tension, scenario, narrative, plot, intelligence, point
{...} The Grudge poses preposterous situations and then demands that
its characters do the stupidest things possible to extricate
themselves. {...}So not only do we have no investment in the
undeveloped characters, we have no sympathy for them, either.
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It should have been unknowns rather than pseudo recognizable faces.
Sarah Michelle Gellar didn't have to be here. It could have been
anyone else. There was no real depth to the characters. They're all
about as wooden as a forest.
(Of course, that's SMG's specialty)
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The Grudge, which stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a transplanted
apprentice social worker and a number of lesser-known actors who look
even more at sea than she does, is a horror film that consists of
virtually nothing but don't-go-in-the-attic suspense scenes strung
together with a reasonable degree of brooding mood and a minimum of
logic.
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Date: 2004-10-20 09:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-20 09:44 pm (UTC)Hee hee. So much for her fine film career.
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:14 pm (UTC)I truly think that like many young actors who were okay as kids, as they grow and become self conscious (and ego filled) what talent they have begins to elude them. Somewhere along the way SMG just stopped growing and she is limited to histrionics, chirp, or stone-face. That's all she's capable of.
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Date: 2004-10-21 02:30 am (UTC)That was a truly beautiful post to wake up to.
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Date: 2004-10-21 08:14 pm (UTC)Right back at ya, hon.
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