Letters to the Editor
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Agreed
McConaughey and giggling Kate= ehhh.
Sutherland is cool.
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sutherland
Is always the sexiest guy, and I have to say that I like it when the sexiest guy is the oldest, just like I like it when the sexiest women is Helen Miren.
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I'm just not that into him.
Never have been.
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Donald Sutherland
has always been the sexiest guy. Can't be repeated enough times. Sexier than MM, sexier than his kid. S.E.X.Y.
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Sutherland's sensuality...
Sutherland is not conventionally sensual or sexy--if by "conventionally" one means A&F-model-on-a-billboard-above-Sunset-Blvd sensual or sexy.
But let me give you five words.
Sutherland. Christie. Don't. Look. Now.
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So...
This is another Stephanie Zacharek review about an aging Hollywood star whom Stephanie Zacharek finds attractive because of how gracefully he/she is aging, and kudos to him/her for said graceful aging, because Hollywood puts so many pressures on actors, etc. etc. Must we have a review like this EVERY SINGLE WEEK?
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Not So ...
@patioman: No, this is another Stephanie Zacharek review where she tells us, in a nuanced and interesting way, what's good and bad about a movie, and why. I'm delighted to be able to read one of those every week.
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friday commentz
I like the words "sensuous" and "Donald Sutherland" put together. Seems like a bit much, but when you think he could look hot even in a 'fro, doesn't seem so over the top.
Kate Hudson always had something going against her because she was just the second incarnation of her mother, and as for Matthew whatever (can't spell), he's a bit of a blow up doll, isn't he.
The movie actually sounds like it's got some good influences- at least it's working in a screwball tradition, with a completely preposterous plot and people who are working not to be together rather than spending all their time thinking about how to get to the altar. But you can't make heat with mash, I guess.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little dud
SZ puts her finger on the problem with this and too many so-called romantic comedies: the leads "twinkle" at each other. Why can't anyone write the kind of brilliant satirical/romantic relationship like the one Cary Grant and Roz Russell had in the Front Page? They're like an amazing rhetorical circus act. Why is one movie after another that's supposed to be witty just sappy or flat?
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I just think that
McConaughey and Hudson's I'm a 35 year old acting 16 gets a little old after the 7th or 8th movie.
But to be fair, is there ANY ROLE EVER that Donald Sutherland turned down? Dreamcather? Salem's Lot? The Italian Job? Outbreak? Dirty Sexy Money?
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McBlehaughy
McConaughey has been outsexied in most of his films. In the underappreciated, popcorn-fun action flick "Sahara," you're left wondering why on earth Penelope Cruz ended up with him when she could have had the delicious Steve Zahn or William H. Macy.
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Stephanie...
Is so pretentious she has to say "pocket foulard" instead of pocket square. And she hates almost every movie she sees. I've stopped reading her reviews, except I love Donald Sutherland so I decided to take a chance on this one hoping that I wouldn't feel like throwing up after slogging through SZ's pretentious BS. Good thing I ate a small breakfast.
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Glad I'm not the only one
...who recognizes Donald Sutherland's masculine allure. I first saw him in "The Dirty Dozen" a zillion years ago and his wry, slouchy, bad-boy character made a powerful impression. He's got more sex appeal in his little finger than his son has in his whole body.
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Inconsistant review
So Matthew McConaughey is both "coasting" and "trying too hard"? How exactly does one do that?
Hudson "just glows" and is "trying too hard"? Again, how does one do this?
Please, edit your own work, make sure you aren't making contradictary statements or you end up looking like a fool. Or at least like you weren't paying attention.
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Just A Notion
Here's an idea: how about a romantic/adventure comedy about a HAPPILY married couple running around getting into mischief? That setup has been so rarely pursued compared to the they're-married-but-one's-now-fed-up-and-wants-a-divorce trope that one would think it could be a gold mine of fresh ideas.
I realize it can tricky. Powell-Loy chemistry doesn't grow on trees. But you never know what you might get until you try, and I ain't seen anyone try in a loooooong time.
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It is extremely easy to forget Matthew McConaughey...
...one of the dullest, most forgettable, greatest non-actors of our time. He makes the 50s he-man Hercules Steve Reeves look like De Niro and Harrison Ford rolles into one.
Sutherland, on the other hand, is entirely memorable, delicious, compelling, fun, and just plain damned wonderful. Been watching him since the 70s -- he's always been that way.
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it's the intelligence (oh, and the voice) ...
What made Cary Grant, David Niven, Rex Harrison, Yul Brenner (god help me), Alex Guinness -- SEXY is their obvious intelligence and particular voices which had character and suggested some hope of wit under the surface ...
Oddly enough this is also true of unlikely, less reliably refined characters as Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, and even Harrison Ford on a good day.
Sutherland's voice and mischevious twinkle outshine most of his contemporaries ... Alan Rickman is likely a close second, his pout suggesting all that is promised by Sutherland's twinkle.
I think McConaughey must be quite engaging in person ... but few of his roles have ever suggested he had much of a brain ...
The movies desperately need someone to fill Richard Gere's particular shoes as a reliable leading man in these "not art" vehicles.
In contrast, though older, Robert Downey Jr. and a few others whose names escape me DO project the suggestion of genuine rapier intelligence.
I think that it boils down to most movie studios today don't WANT their leading characters to appear somehow "superior" to their audiences. Hence, we get Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts rather than Sandra Bullock and any number of other more worthy actresses.
Age is a terrible thing in today's Hollywood ... rather than decades, part suitability seems to be measured in 5-year increments, increasingly for men as well, with occasional exceptions for the memorable crushes of our youth (compare that to the romantic leading man careers of Grant, Niven, etc.)
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He is da man
Donald Sutherland is usually the best thing in whatever movie he is in. In fact, he is often the only watchable thing in a lot of the movies he makes. Think of the big-screen version of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.
Which is not to say that he fades into the background in first-rate projects with killer casts. Fox Movie Channel ran Robert Altman's MASH again this week. That was an example of how a great actor stands out in a great ensemble cast.
And I have to say, his cameo in JFK remains my favorite thing in that movie.
You can't keep a real star from shining.