Ugh. A chick flick that doesn't know what it wants to do. Is it about the IT world? Is it about the difficulty of being old and getting back in to the workplace? Is it about the difficulty of a woman heading up an IT company and keeping her family? Is it about an affair that's not an affair? Is it about friendship transcending the workplace or is it about how friendships grow selectively in the work place?
It seems to be all these things, but badly explored, and then comes the end. Such a waste of money and talent at hand.
'The Flash' - Season 1
I ran out of Supergirl episodes so I gave in and started watching these. Barry Allen is not as interesting or attractive a figure as Kara Zor-El, though I imagine he might appeal to girls. Comic book fare with more action and less engagement. DC seem really big on interracial romance for some reason. It's welcome, but it really sticks it in your face as the centrepiece concern. Maybe America is evolving. Maybe the white people in charge are evolving.
There are some good performances by the supporting cast, especially Jesse L. Martin who plays Joe West. It's a funny turn for him because he continues to play a detective somewhat like his Ed Green character from Law & Order. Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell team up as recurring characters, sort of reprising their partnership in 'Prison Break', which I suppose is a sort of casting-as-gag. You don't see that too often.
There are some good performances by the supporting cast, especially Jesse L. Martin who plays Joe West. It's a funny turn for him because he continues to play a detective somewhat like his Ed Green character from Law & Order. Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell team up as recurring characters, sort of reprising their partnership in 'Prison Break', which I suppose is a sort of casting-as-gag. You don't see that too often.
'Legend'
British gangster historic drama mess. Spends a lot of screen time going into Reggie Kray's romance and marriage. Tom Hardy is very good in this. Unfortunately it doesn't really go anywhere interesting and then they go to jail. I was kind of expecting something a bit more interesting than this film. Touches on an interesting story about the other twin Ron being paranoid schizophrenic. The mental illness dimension of the character is shown without much exploration of its inner workings, but a beautiful mind, this is not. So it's bloodshed and mayhem all the way.
'Diary Of A Teenage Girl'
This film was highly acclaimed at Sundance and has good ratings from both critics and Rotten Tomatoes alike. I got halfway through it and gave up. The San Francisco 1976 in this film is tedious and boring. I wasn't San Francisco in 1976 - I was in NYC - and there seems to be something fundamentally wrong about how it goes about capturing the times it attempts to depict.
I'm probably the wrong audience for it. It's not like it doesn't have redeeming features but I just couldn't get into it and for the 1 hour I watched, it didn't really offer me something good to make me want to watch the rest. That's pretty rare.
'Diary Of A Teenage Girl'
This film was highly acclaimed at Sundance and has good ratings from both critics and Rotten Tomatoes alike. I got halfway through it and gave up. The San Francisco 1976 in this film is tedious and boring. I wasn't San Francisco in 1976 - I was in NYC - and there seems to be something fundamentally wrong about how it goes about capturing the times it attempts to depict.
I'm probably the wrong audience for it. It's not like it doesn't have redeeming features but I just couldn't get into it and for the 1 hour I watched, it didn't really offer me something good to make me want to watch the rest. That's pretty rare.
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