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Aug. 19th, 2003 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexsarllThe Hours isn't a film, it's just a catalogue of applications for an Oscar.
Don't misunderstand me, the actresses in it are all very, very good. There's not one of them I've not seen give a great performance in something else. But here they're all so very busy being Serious and Worthy and Emoting that you feel more as though you're spying on a masterclass. Granted, Nicole Kidman's very compelling as *something* but I'm really not sure if it's Virginia Woolf. And the lesbiotic scenes all feel very awkward, tacked on for 'controversy' (maybe thirty years ago, eh?) rather than necessary.
I also watched The Frighteners last night. It's the film Peter Jackson made between Heavenly Creatures and Lord of the Rings. Unsurprisingly, it's not a patch on either, and the denouement's a bit formulaic, but it's a perfectly good little film. However, it's not nearly enough in love with its own Importance ever to have had a shot at the Oscars.
Don't misunderstand me, the actresses in it are all very, very good. There's not one of them I've not seen give a great performance in something else. But here they're all so very busy being Serious and Worthy and Emoting that you feel more as though you're spying on a masterclass. Granted, Nicole Kidman's very compelling as *something* but I'm really not sure if it's Virginia Woolf. And the lesbiotic scenes all feel very awkward, tacked on for 'controversy' (maybe thirty years ago, eh?) rather than necessary.
I also watched The Frighteners last night. It's the film Peter Jackson made between Heavenly Creatures and Lord of the Rings. Unsurprisingly, it's not a patch on either, and the denouement's a bit formulaic, but it's a perfectly good little film. However, it's not nearly enough in love with its own Importance ever to have had a shot at the Oscars.
