HBO also plays films! Who knew?

[jlh]

Tonight while continuing the Great Kitchen Clean Up of ought-four, I caught Shattered Glass on HBO. Peter Sarsgaard continues to own me, so I made an icon so that all could see his hotness. And that Hayden kid might just be able to live down Anakin. It's a great movie and I highly recommend it.

I also saw the last 15 minutes of Something's Gotta Give and damn, that movie is horrible. What a disappointment! I'm all for appropriate-aged romances, so seeing Nicholson with Keaton made me happy, but damn, those characters were uninteresting and completely self-involved, and worse, the film never showed me why they should be together except that neither of them sleep. Not to mention that Nicholson is punished for being a prick, but Keaton has those imperfections that are really only supposed to endear her to us and to him. The only lesson she needs to learn is that she's sexy, and Keanu Reeves is mystifyingly happy to teach her that lesson and equally happy to bow out in time for Jack to get her back in the last act. So smug, so self-satisfied, so ultimately anti-male, so very very disappointing.

Comments

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Sorry you didn't like "Something's Gotta Give". Have you ever seen the rest of the movie, or have you only seen those last 15 minutes? I agree the ending is cheesy, but I loved the rest of the movie.

[shakespearechic.livejournal.com]

Eeee, yes, "Shattered Glass"! I love it. I love Hayden in it (he's awesome in "Life as a House" too - so he just needs to avoid Anakin-like roles forEVER) and Peter continues to amaze me. Love him in that, in "Garden State" and I still need to see "Kinsey" which also has him.

I have the DVD for "Shattered Glass" and they have an inverview from CBS with Stephen Glass and it's fascinating to watch that and then realize how Hayden nailed him. Also, how messed up he really was with his pathological lies.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I should rent that DVD. Peter also awesome in Boys Don't Cry though totally unrecognizable. I can't wait to see Kinsey.

If you google Chuck Lane you'll find an interview CJR did with him where he talks about it being Stephen but also the trends in journalism at that time that relied on very young untrained writers for glib, entertaining copy, asking them to write more of it than they really could handle. (Which is implied in the film with all the free lance work he gets.)

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

Shattered Glass! Hee! Someone from penn sent it to my mum; I find that so ironic.

[ex-lunasparr180.livejournal.com]

At least I know how it ends now. I gave up long before the end. I just couldn't make myself care, you know?