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Sometimes I envy my mother for her relaxed moviegoing standards. She is much more willing than I just to let go and let the story engage her, and I think that would be kind of nice. There are times when I think that maybe I should chill and ease up on my exacting standards for what I want in a movie.
Then I see something like Hitch and I am reminded of why I am the elitist film snob I've become.
Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. I'm really not that hard to please. All I want in a movie is intelligence. I don't even want intelligence in the story itself. If I did, I wouldn't have liked Harold and Kumar. I just want intelligence behind the scenes. I want it in the dialogue and the storytelling and the acting and the directing and the score. H&K is a good movie because its dumb story is backed up by off-camera smarts.
Hitch, on the other hand, is a bad movie because its stupid story is further hampered by terrible directing on all counts - in fact, I will remember Hitch as the movie that showed me in graphic detail how destructive bad directing can be; a clunky score; dialogue that is highly realistic inasmuch as large chunks of it are interesting only to those conversing; useless characters; mechanical, rote acting; and . . . okay, its stupid story. But the general incompetence just highlights the awfulness of the story. I could definitely believe that, had the creation of Hitch involved any actual application of thought, it could have been a lot more fun.
On a more amusing note, I found the best keychain ever. It says "yield to the princess" on it and the text is in the same shade of pink I used for the "PRINCESS" in this icon. I could not believe my eyes when I saw it, because it really sums up our Princess kind of perfectly, doesn't it?
Then I see something like Hitch and I am reminded of why I am the elitist film snob I've become.
Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. I'm really not that hard to please. All I want in a movie is intelligence. I don't even want intelligence in the story itself. If I did, I wouldn't have liked Harold and Kumar. I just want intelligence behind the scenes. I want it in the dialogue and the storytelling and the acting and the directing and the score. H&K is a good movie because its dumb story is backed up by off-camera smarts.
Hitch, on the other hand, is a bad movie because its stupid story is further hampered by terrible directing on all counts - in fact, I will remember Hitch as the movie that showed me in graphic detail how destructive bad directing can be; a clunky score; dialogue that is highly realistic inasmuch as large chunks of it are interesting only to those conversing; useless characters; mechanical, rote acting; and . . . okay, its stupid story. But the general incompetence just highlights the awfulness of the story. I could definitely believe that, had the creation of Hitch involved any actual application of thought, it could have been a lot more fun.
On a more amusing note, I found the best keychain ever. It says "yield to the princess" on it and the text is in the same shade of pink I used for the "PRINCESS" in this icon. I could not believe my eyes when I saw it, because it really sums up our Princess kind of perfectly, doesn't it?
