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"The mistake lies in seeing debate and discussion as secondary to the recovery of meaning. Rather, we should see them as primary: art and literature do not exist to be understood or appreciated, but to be discussed and argued over, to function as a focus for social dialogue. The discourse of literary or art criticism is not to recover meaning, but to create and contest it. Our primal scene should not be the solitary figure in the dark of the cinema but the group of friends arguing afterwards in the pub."
-Don Fowler (1996) "Even Better Than The Real Thing"

Monday, August 8, 2011

Larry Crowne

Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts or Tom

Hanks and Meg Ryan? This one features

Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. A movie

about some real life situations that become

less real and more about movie situations.

Which is good, because movie situations

seem to make romantic comedies that are

also about economic realities more

enjoyable. I don't think you can really go

wrong by hanging out and watching this one.

Just as you can't go wrong with The

Terminal, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in

Seattle or Joe vs. the Volcano. However,

don't expect to be as devastated as you were

at the end of said gems. Those four are just nectar. No doubt some poofter representations of

the stereotypical community college students. Then again, I went to school with some poofter

representations that were actually real people. I wonder though, if Tom Hanks is getting older,

in a way that he is losing his grip on what's really going on? As a producer, he is making me

wonder a bit. I mean, he produced the best series ever made but he also produced Evan

Almighty and Mamma Mia!. Maybe he should just keep dominating epics cause as much as I

enjoy a movie like Larry Crowne, it might have missed the spot a bit. Still liked it, though.

2 comments:

  1. First Timer Here,
    The wife got her pick from RedBox the other night. Larry Crowne was sooooo disappointing!

    I was angry almost. Don't tease me! Hanks, Roberts, Valderrama.
    Roberts was wonderful (except for being a terrible drunk. Who went from "glass of wine pissed" to "one night stand" out of nowhere.

    Hanks is out of touch. He must have missed "Everything Must Go". I was expecting 40 Year Old Virgin from the previews. He was in a different movie. If the whole scooter gang bit had been in any other movie, it would been wonderful. But it was wasted.

    I want my dollar back!

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