Posted by babka at nrwc-cs05-t170.citlink.net on July 01, 2002 at 13:27:46:
In Reply to: Re: Jen sez "Shine".... posted by LoveLee on July 01, 2002 at 05:40:03:
: : Except for one actress, I quite liked YA-YA, btw. (not the book but the
: : movie Kourie fashioned from it...for several reasons)
: My mother wants to have a gurl's night.. dinner, where she will once
again probe me about the MEN thing, lol then she wants to see that movie..
so please enlighten me Babka????? Is it really worth it?? Good for a mom
and daughter?? I usually HATE girly movies, I like dark stuff... and
Kevin's movies of course, which a guess can be pretty dark humor, but this
Ya-Ya thing, does it have substance??? I guess it must, you liked it.. well
anyway, ANYONE who has seen it, give me some clue as to what it is about??
: LoveLee
***I daresay it has a good portion of dark. the fact that it has already
been dismissed/labeled as a "girly movie" ought to tip you off. Courie
didn't choose the material, it's what she was finally offered. I think it's
her first directing gig. Bette Midler is one of the producers. To give it a
looksee is to make possible scripts Courie does choose and can get creative
with. Maggie Smith and Ashley Judd and (can't spell) F. Flannigan and James
Gardner are worth the price of admission, and I like Bullock and admire her
choice of material so far. Yes for mother-and-daughter themes, and why as
females would it be wussy to admit that there are such themes? Is there no
such quality as "macha"? Hey: I was a little girl once, with a troubling
family life...(do we all become actors?...) Whether you "like" it or not, I
can't say, nor might my reasons be yours. The shock of seeing a group of
women over the age of lip-smacking nubility was so intense it reminded me
we have been so conspicuous by our absence. (See 8 and 1/2, and the 2nd
floor where Fellini's chicken woman sadly takes her leave of the more
lovely harem crew). But I babble. Based on the reviews, I expected little.
Glad I went.