"How to Deal" review - Hilarious!
07-14-03, 02:08 PM
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"How to Deal" review - Hilarious!
http://filmfreakcentral.net/screenreviews/howtodeal.htm
I couldn't stop laughing while reading this.
I couldn't stop laughing while reading this.
07-14-03, 02:40 PM
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"How to Deal is not only badly plotted, performed, and thought-out, it's an example of what can happen when filmmakers don't have the first idea about the language of film." Yeah that's pretty funny. I can't wait until the reviews from the big critics (NY Times, Ebert, New Yorker, etc.) come in. This movie is going to be ripped apart. But I gonna have to see this movie. Mandy Moore's short, brown hair looks great. And from the trailer, it seems like she's going to have cool outfits (cute hat and scarf combo, a nice long black skirt, and great color coordination).
Ok, now I must go watch my T2: Ultimate Edition dvd, drink beer, pass out, wake up and watch Flesh Hunter directed by Jules Jordan.
Ok, now I must go watch my T2: Ultimate Edition dvd, drink beer, pass out, wake up and watch Flesh Hunter directed by Jules Jordan.
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07-15-03, 01:52 AM
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I guess the hilarity is because of the incomprehensibly long single sentences that free-flow into mini-rants.
Two examples ..
.. and ..
Two examples ..
Essentially the Britney Spears Crossroads (the only substantive difference between the two unforgivable suck-a-paloozas that Mandy is too chaste to pull the trigger on the premarital-sex-with-scumbag pistol), the picture is a ninety-minute billboard for Krispy Kreme that searches for a little credibility amongst the post-babysitter's club demographic by tossing off some foul language and presenting a few scenarios that are relevant to teenage girls mainly because How to Deal tries to cover every issue that might be relevant to teenage girls.
It uses ancillary characters to suffer in place of our hero, making her evolution less one of experience than of the sort of parasitic voyeurism favoured by champions of the spectator-chic of Forrest Gump, and it's so intent on offering every single element of the teen formula (the wedding, the birth, the musical falling-in-love montage) that it's at once overcrowded and curiously empty.
