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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nClub der einsamen Herzen<\/a> (2019) <\/h2>\n\n\n\nARD Mediathek, original Deutsch<\/em>
There are two very typical made-for-German-tax-funded-TV movies in the mix this week, which we chose to watch because we like the main actors.
The average age<\/a> of ARD’s viewers is 62; they commission a lot of movies about seniors finding love, escaping their convalescent homes, and achieving their dreams. Hannelore Elsner<\/a> was an accomplished Bavarian actress of the post-war years, and “Club der einsame Herzen<\/em>” was the last film she made before her death. Mr Radish pitched it as a “feel-good story”; I felt more sad than good. All the likeable characters did find love in the end, the three senior ladies patched up their friendship and realized their youthful dream, but there was a lot of emotional pain in this “comedy”.
The movie was set and filmed down the road in Landshut, and the supporting cast had a lot of faces familiar from other other Bavarian films and TV.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Enjoyable, but other than Frau Elsner singing on a stage in the final act of her final project, forgettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\nS\u00f6rensen hat Angst<\/a> (2020)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nARD Mediathek, original Deutsch<\/em>
The second very typical made-for-German-tax-funded-TV movie was a Krimi<\/em> (crime movie) starring Bjarne M\u00e4del<\/a>, who also directed it. His character is a police detective from Hamburg with a chronic anxiety disorder who moves to a quiet peaceful village in Friesland for some peace and quiet, and on his first day the mayor is murdered.
Other than his mental health–it’s usually a child or parent’s mental health–it is every Public-TV Krimi<\/em> set in a village in Friesland. Seriously you guys, they are all the same movie. The Deich<\/em>, the pointy houses, the opposite-gender work colleague they hit the local with after hours, deep dark secrets from thirty years ago bubbling up to the present, the (hurr hurr!) yokel natives serving fried potatoes with bacon to the good city vegetarian since he won’t eat fish. Lots of grey scenery, which is not what I needed<\/a> this week.
TL;DR:<\/strong> If you have interest in the “Krimi<\/em> set in a village in Friesland” genre, it’s a good exemplar. I feel it did not live up to hype and I should rewatch Tatortreiniger<\/a><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nEunice<\/a> (1982)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nYouTube, original English<\/em>
I found this online<\/a> while looking for clips of Mama’s Family<\/a> to turn into gifs.
It’s actually a stage play, in five acts, all set in Mama’s kitchen, living room, and porch, and at the end the actors came out to take their bows before the studio audience. The characters were already known to TV audiences from sketches on the Carol Burnett Show<\/em>.
Eunice’s breakdown hits a little too close to home (no spoilers here). I should have been allowed to stay up and watch this in 1982.
We all know Carol Burnett is hilarious, but she’s also deep. And Ken Berry is great as the original Hillbilly Elegy. Recommended. This is the reason I count “TV Movies” as movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMacho<\/a> (2016)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNetflix, Mexican Spanish with English subtitles<\/em>
Finally a “real movie” and it was not as good as Eunice<\/em>. I was intrigued by the premise–a straight (and womanizing) fashion designer has to keep his sexuality under wraps so the international pink mafia doesn’t destroy his business….and fashion movies always have crazy costuming.
Spoilers: <\/strong>Along the way, he physically and verbally abuses the office gofer who poses as his boyfriend, cynically uses orphans to boost his public image, starts to feel a romantic attachment to his abuse victim, gets caught having an affair with the hot wife of the local drug lord, shootout in the woods…and then when he goes to hide with his hippie mom for a month, the hot wife and the gay gofer have an affair. The convenient release of a designer-gofer sex tape saves his runway show from a mob of angry LGBT activists, and the whole unbelievably ridiculous tale ends with a thrupple wedding on the beach.
I laughed at the parts I was supposed to laugh at and was not disappointed by the costuming, but the relationship violence–and the victim shrugging it off and going along with it–does not belong in a “comedy” movie in the 21st century, now that we all know this is wrong.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Netflix sent me astray. Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSense and Sensibility<\/a> (1995)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNot much to say, you’ve all seen it, but it was an excellent palate-cleanser: deserved all the awards it received for costuming and no violence or obscenity.
The only characters that didn’t bore or annoy were Margaret Dashwood and Mr. Palmer, but that’s Jane Austen’s fault.
I think I saw it a few times when I was younger, but this was the first time I amused myself trying to figure out how many murders the supporting cast committed in Midsomer County.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m ever allowed in the library again, I’m bringing home the seven-pack of vintage Japanese Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If it weren’t for low standards I’d have no standards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
There are two very typical made-for-German-tax-funded-TV movies in the mix this week, which we chose to watch because we like the main actors.
The average age<\/a> of ARD’s viewers is 62; they commission a lot of movies about seniors finding love, escaping their convalescent homes, and achieving their dreams. Hannelore Elsner<\/a> was an accomplished Bavarian actress of the post-war years, and “Club der einsame Herzen<\/em>” was the last film she made before her death. Mr Radish pitched it as a “feel-good story”; I felt more sad than good. All the likeable characters did find love in the end, the three senior ladies patched up their friendship and realized their youthful dream, but there was a lot of emotional pain in this “comedy”.
The movie was set and filmed down the road in Landshut, and the supporting cast had a lot of faces familiar from other other Bavarian films and TV.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Enjoyable, but other than Frau Elsner singing on a stage in the final act of her final project, forgettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f6rensen hat Angst<\/a> (2020)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nARD Mediathek, original Deutsch<\/em>
The second very typical made-for-German-tax-funded-TV movie was a Krimi<\/em> (crime movie) starring Bjarne M\u00e4del<\/a>, who also directed it. His character is a police detective from Hamburg with a chronic anxiety disorder who moves to a quiet peaceful village in Friesland for some peace and quiet, and on his first day the mayor is murdered.
Other than his mental health–it’s usually a child or parent’s mental health–it is every Public-TV Krimi<\/em> set in a village in Friesland. Seriously you guys, they are all the same movie. The Deich<\/em>, the pointy houses, the opposite-gender work colleague they hit the local with after hours, deep dark secrets from thirty years ago bubbling up to the present, the (hurr hurr!) yokel natives serving fried potatoes with bacon to the good city vegetarian since he won’t eat fish. Lots of grey scenery, which is not what I needed<\/a> this week.
TL;DR:<\/strong> If you have interest in the “Krimi<\/em> set in a village in Friesland” genre, it’s a good exemplar. I feel it did not live up to hype and I should rewatch Tatortreiniger<\/a><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nEunice<\/a> (1982)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nYouTube, original English<\/em>
I found this online<\/a> while looking for clips of Mama’s Family<\/a> to turn into gifs.
It’s actually a stage play, in five acts, all set in Mama’s kitchen, living room, and porch, and at the end the actors came out to take their bows before the studio audience. The characters were already known to TV audiences from sketches on the Carol Burnett Show<\/em>.
Eunice’s breakdown hits a little too close to home (no spoilers here). I should have been allowed to stay up and watch this in 1982.
We all know Carol Burnett is hilarious, but she’s also deep. And Ken Berry is great as the original Hillbilly Elegy. Recommended. This is the reason I count “TV Movies” as movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMacho<\/a> (2016)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNetflix, Mexican Spanish with English subtitles<\/em>
Finally a “real movie” and it was not as good as Eunice<\/em>. I was intrigued by the premise–a straight (and womanizing) fashion designer has to keep his sexuality under wraps so the international pink mafia doesn’t destroy his business….and fashion movies always have crazy costuming.
Spoilers: <\/strong>Along the way, he physically and verbally abuses the office gofer who poses as his boyfriend, cynically uses orphans to boost his public image, starts to feel a romantic attachment to his abuse victim, gets caught having an affair with the hot wife of the local drug lord, shootout in the woods…and then when he goes to hide with his hippie mom for a month, the hot wife and the gay gofer have an affair. The convenient release of a designer-gofer sex tape saves his runway show from a mob of angry LGBT activists, and the whole unbelievably ridiculous tale ends with a thrupple wedding on the beach.
I laughed at the parts I was supposed to laugh at and was not disappointed by the costuming, but the relationship violence–and the victim shrugging it off and going along with it–does not belong in a “comedy” movie in the 21st century, now that we all know this is wrong.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Netflix sent me astray. Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSense and Sensibility<\/a> (1995)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNot much to say, you’ve all seen it, but it was an excellent palate-cleanser: deserved all the awards it received for costuming and no violence or obscenity.
The only characters that didn’t bore or annoy were Margaret Dashwood and Mr. Palmer, but that’s Jane Austen’s fault.
I think I saw it a few times when I was younger, but this was the first time I amused myself trying to figure out how many murders the supporting cast committed in Midsomer County.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m ever allowed in the library again, I’m bringing home the seven-pack of vintage Japanese Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If it weren’t for low standards I’d have no standards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The second very typical made-for-German-tax-funded-TV movie was a Krimi<\/em> (crime movie) starring Bjarne M\u00e4del<\/a>, who also directed it. His character is a police detective from Hamburg with a chronic anxiety disorder who moves to a quiet peaceful village in Friesland for some peace and quiet, and on his first day the mayor is murdered.
Other than his mental health–it’s usually a child or parent’s mental health–it is every Public-TV Krimi<\/em> set in a village in Friesland. Seriously you guys, they are all the same movie. The Deich<\/em>, the pointy houses, the opposite-gender work colleague they hit the local with after hours, deep dark secrets from thirty years ago bubbling up to the present, the (hurr hurr!) yokel natives serving fried potatoes with bacon to the good city vegetarian since he won’t eat fish. Lots of grey scenery, which is not what I needed<\/a> this week.
TL;DR:<\/strong> If you have interest in the “Krimi<\/em> set in a village in Friesland” genre, it’s a good exemplar. I feel it did not live up to hype and I should rewatch Tatortreiniger<\/a><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eunice<\/a> (1982)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nYouTube, original English<\/em>
I found this online<\/a> while looking for clips of Mama’s Family<\/a> to turn into gifs.
It’s actually a stage play, in five acts, all set in Mama’s kitchen, living room, and porch, and at the end the actors came out to take their bows before the studio audience. The characters were already known to TV audiences from sketches on the Carol Burnett Show<\/em>.
Eunice’s breakdown hits a little too close to home (no spoilers here). I should have been allowed to stay up and watch this in 1982.
We all know Carol Burnett is hilarious, but she’s also deep. And Ken Berry is great as the original Hillbilly Elegy. Recommended. This is the reason I count “TV Movies” as movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMacho<\/a> (2016)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNetflix, Mexican Spanish with English subtitles<\/em>
Finally a “real movie” and it was not as good as Eunice<\/em>. I was intrigued by the premise–a straight (and womanizing) fashion designer has to keep his sexuality under wraps so the international pink mafia doesn’t destroy his business….and fashion movies always have crazy costuming.
Spoilers: <\/strong>Along the way, he physically and verbally abuses the office gofer who poses as his boyfriend, cynically uses orphans to boost his public image, starts to feel a romantic attachment to his abuse victim, gets caught having an affair with the hot wife of the local drug lord, shootout in the woods…and then when he goes to hide with his hippie mom for a month, the hot wife and the gay gofer have an affair. The convenient release of a designer-gofer sex tape saves his runway show from a mob of angry LGBT activists, and the whole unbelievably ridiculous tale ends with a thrupple wedding on the beach.
I laughed at the parts I was supposed to laugh at and was not disappointed by the costuming, but the relationship violence–and the victim shrugging it off and going along with it–does not belong in a “comedy” movie in the 21st century, now that we all know this is wrong.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Netflix sent me astray. Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSense and Sensibility<\/a> (1995)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNot much to say, you’ve all seen it, but it was an excellent palate-cleanser: deserved all the awards it received for costuming and no violence or obscenity.
The only characters that didn’t bore or annoy were Margaret Dashwood and Mr. Palmer, but that’s Jane Austen’s fault.
I think I saw it a few times when I was younger, but this was the first time I amused myself trying to figure out how many murders the supporting cast committed in Midsomer County.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m ever allowed in the library again, I’m bringing home the seven-pack of vintage Japanese Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If it weren’t for low standards I’d have no standards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I found this online<\/a> while looking for clips of Mama’s Family<\/a> to turn into gifs.
It’s actually a stage play, in five acts, all set in Mama’s kitchen, living room, and porch, and at the end the actors came out to take their bows before the studio audience. The characters were already known to TV audiences from sketches on the Carol Burnett Show<\/em>.
Eunice’s breakdown hits a little too close to home (no spoilers here). I should have been allowed to stay up and watch this in 1982.
We all know Carol Burnett is hilarious, but she’s also deep. And Ken Berry is great as the original Hillbilly Elegy. Recommended. This is the reason I count “TV Movies” as movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Macho<\/a> (2016)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNetflix, Mexican Spanish with English subtitles<\/em>
Finally a “real movie” and it was not as good as Eunice<\/em>. I was intrigued by the premise–a straight (and womanizing) fashion designer has to keep his sexuality under wraps so the international pink mafia doesn’t destroy his business….and fashion movies always have crazy costuming.
Spoilers: <\/strong>Along the way, he physically and verbally abuses the office gofer who poses as his boyfriend, cynically uses orphans to boost his public image, starts to feel a romantic attachment to his abuse victim, gets caught having an affair with the hot wife of the local drug lord, shootout in the woods…and then when he goes to hide with his hippie mom for a month, the hot wife and the gay gofer have an affair. The convenient release of a designer-gofer sex tape saves his runway show from a mob of angry LGBT activists, and the whole unbelievably ridiculous tale ends with a thrupple wedding on the beach.
I laughed at the parts I was supposed to laugh at and was not disappointed by the costuming, but the relationship violence–and the victim shrugging it off and going along with it–does not belong in a “comedy” movie in the 21st century, now that we all know this is wrong.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Netflix sent me astray. Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSense and Sensibility<\/a> (1995)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNot much to say, you’ve all seen it, but it was an excellent palate-cleanser: deserved all the awards it received for costuming and no violence or obscenity.
The only characters that didn’t bore or annoy were Margaret Dashwood and Mr. Palmer, but that’s Jane Austen’s fault.
I think I saw it a few times when I was younger, but this was the first time I amused myself trying to figure out how many murders the supporting cast committed in Midsomer County.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m ever allowed in the library again, I’m bringing home the seven-pack of vintage Japanese Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If it weren’t for low standards I’d have no standards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radishflix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Finally a “real movie” and it was not as good as Eunice<\/em>. I was intrigued by the premise–a straight (and womanizing) fashion designer has to keep his sexuality under wraps so the international pink mafia doesn’t destroy his business….and fashion movies always have crazy costuming.
Spoilers: <\/strong>Along the way, he physically and verbally abuses the office gofer who poses as his boyfriend, cynically uses orphans to boost his public image, starts to feel a romantic attachment to his abuse victim, gets caught having an affair with the hot wife of the local drug lord, shootout in the woods…and then when he goes to hide with his hippie mom for a month, the hot wife and the gay gofer have an affair. The convenient release of a designer-gofer sex tape saves his runway show from a mob of angry LGBT activists, and the whole unbelievably ridiculous tale ends with a thrupple wedding on the beach.
I laughed at the parts I was supposed to laugh at and was not disappointed by the costuming, but the relationship violence–and the victim shrugging it off and going along with it–does not belong in a “comedy” movie in the 21st century, now that we all know this is wrong.
TL;DR:<\/strong> Netflix sent me astray. Again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sense and Sensibility<\/a> (1995)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nNot much to say, you’ve all seen it, but it was an excellent palate-cleanser: deserved all the awards it received for costuming and no violence or obscenity.
The only characters that didn’t bore or annoy were Margaret Dashwood and Mr. Palmer, but that’s Jane Austen’s fault.
I think I saw it a few times when I was younger, but this was the first time I amused myself trying to figure out how many murders the supporting cast committed in Midsomer County.
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I’m ever allowed in the library again, I’m bringing home the seven-pack of vintage Japanese Godzilla movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The only characters that didn’t bore or annoy were Margaret Dashwood and Mr. Palmer, but that’s Jane Austen’s fault.
I think I saw it a few times when I was younger, but this was the first time I amused myself trying to figure out how many murders the supporting cast committed in Midsomer County.
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