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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 01/11/2009 : 18:04:22
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Sillier than a silly thing from Sillyville. So many bad calls mostly about the nature of friendship and the crassness of a premise whose engine is lotsa money. So what do intelligent women concern themselves with - we're talking a high-powered lawyer and an educator -- the credit crunch? Iraq? global warming? No, of course not. They're far more interested in, nay obsessed by the fact that since little girlhood they've nurtured a desire to be wed at NYC's most prestigious venue and discover their weddings have been booked on the same day.
Oh the shame!
Can a grade-schoolteacher from supposedly modest family really afford to hire a NYC top-rank wedding planner with enough clout to call the tune at the coveted wedding venue, the Plaza in June?
Seriously, who takes weddings this seriously? One couple already live together, so what's the rush? Neither woman has harpy parents screeching for them to do it already, and neither has a religious goad driving her to the altar.
Is this really the value of a lifelong best-friendship that such inanity will spark such a divisive row to sabatoge the other's plans? If the sabotage were more comedically crafted the film might just about get away with such a catalogue of cattiness. As it stands, it's just so lame.
And, of course, even if all this is swept aside on a tide of disbelief-suspension, the logical solution of a double wedding would seem a perfect exemplar of why they're such great pals.
I dunno, there's a huge smell of 1950s about this. That said, both Hudson and Hathaway are really very good. How lovely it would be to see them in a script by IAL Diamond. That would be more 21st century!
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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/12/2009 : 01:56:38
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Bride Wars
People do take their weddings that seriously, I'm afraid. But I agree that it is still too far-fetched. Why wouldn't they want a double wedding? And it's outdated and offensive that the grooms' feelings on any decisions are variously presented as non-existant or irrelevant. I like the actresses in it too, though: Hudson is better than usual; I always like Hathaway, but she doesn't need to do this sort of banality any more. And I do like the theme of being loyal to one's childhood dreams. |
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Bride Wars
