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The great female hope down for count.

posted 13 years ago by st-shot
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Just watched Somewhere and it's the crowning work of a spoiled brat that has no business yelling action in a film budgeted over a couple of mil. Virgin Suicides lumbered in a confusing manner. LIT had some nice compositions, perceptive moments and Bill Murray to uplift it, Marie A was an outright abomination of stilted storytelling and empty headed lavishness that said nothing and now this LIT rip off that pumps up the torpor as she portrays boredom boringly. Given her lack of imagination, access to power that looks like it seriously curtailed her life experience is there anything this dilletante approach to filmmaking has left either creatively or through experience? Career wise it might have helped if she stayed at a couple of Motel 6s along the way instead of being daddy's little girl who got to ride the conveyor belt in the express lane. Aye, Sophia perhaps itsa a best you stay home and have the bambinos.

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[–] golden_muse 13 years ago

Personally I've enjoyed all of her films, but even if I didn't, I find it hard to believe that this post was composed in 2012. If her dad made a few films you didn't like, would you tell him to stay home with his bambinos? And as far as the great female hope, well there's not just one. Her father was taught in film school by Dorothy Arzner, a groundbreaking female director who directed Hepburn and invited the boom mic in the early days of cinema. And just a few years ago another great female director won the Best Director Oscar.

[–] st-shot 13 years ago

Her dad made a lot of lousy films (Jack, Peggy Sue..., Cotton Club and there are more) but I figured it best if he just stuck to his wine instead. I don't fault SC for getting all the breaks in the world but I do have a hard time with all the praise and ink she got for being a competent at best film maker. That's why I joked about her being the big hope, there have to be a dozen other females out their as competent making it on their own that could do a lot more with those budgets but have to go about it the hard way, earning it.