If you like the feeling of depression...
Feel like having a really bad time? Miss those days when it felt like the world was a pretty hopeless place? Find that jokes get in the way of sadness? Then allow us to point you in the direction of The Break-Up, the latest Vaughniston-starring that is honestly begging the question, Why the hell was this movie made? Really, the whole film seems to be intent on showing that when two people who have been together for a long time and really love each other break up, it's well, fucking unpleasant as well. If they really wanted to translate that feeling to the movie-watching experience, well, kudos: mission acomplished.
For the rest of us, we're left wondering who the hell would want to see that? It wasn't fun when it happened to us, it wasn't fun when it happened to our friends, and the idea that we would want to go through the whole process again, sans humor, in a tightly compressed two hours is mind-boggling. Perhaps next we can all re-live the experience of a loved one's funeral. That should be gangbusters at the box office.
On the other hand, thank God for Dead Like Me. Mandy Patinkin really brings his A game to this series. Pick it up on DVD at participating stores near you.
Comments
I served Mandy Patinkin at the country club and I said that I thought he was really good in Chicago Hope. If I had to do it over again, instead of Chicago Hope I would of said Zelcor commercial.
Posted by: kr | June 10, 2006 06:12 PM