Cameron Diaz's character comes across as a woman I would really love to see die horribly in a car crash. The movie picks up a bit after 24 minutes into it, but dear lord, how can a man endure such a vapidly worthless woman moaning about "I never get to read books, I just end up reading magazine reviews"? Sheesh, if she wanted to read a book, READ A BOOK THEN! Stop whining like some moron. God I despise "Learned Helplessness" as much as wanton ignorance. I admit that it was brave to start the movie with a character that the viewers just want to see die horribly and never redeems herself (pretty much identical in should-be-dead like the worthless real-life character of Eminem).
Kate Winslet's character is charming and a viewer can sympathize with her completely. I am now 33 minutes into the movie and Cameron Diaz's infantile character has yet again failed to die horribly in a car crash. That is a real shame. The various "Movie Bumper" clips in the office, then the airplane, then on the television in the cottage home, are all annoying as well as repelling.
At the moment, the only saving grace of this load of agonizingly repulsive movie centering on the agonizingly repulsive Cameron Diaz's shallow character are the set pieces and the low-contrast photography. I remained eagerly patient for the moment in which Cameron Diaz's character would be horribly disfigured just to give even the slightest level of introspection, humility, or grace as that character worked past the agony to become a tolerable human being. Sadly, it appears that she does not. I would have cut as much of Cameron Diaz's role out of this movie as possible and focused entirely on Kate Winslet's character. I honestly did not care one way or the other about either actress before seeing this movie. I dearly pray that Cameron Diaz is not as repulsive a human being as she plays in this movie.
I would give this movie a 5 (no impression at all --- leaving me not caring in the slightest about the movie before or after), but Cameron Diaz's role was such a huge negative impact that it would be painful to rewatch and submit myself to enduring the twittering pointless idiocy of Cameron Diaz playing a character with less dignity than a 3-year-old child in a 30-year-old's body. She plays a fine CGI-animated Princess Fiona, but in this movie, YUCK!
Kate Winslet's character is charming and a viewer can sympathize with her completely. I am now 33 minutes into the movie and Cameron Diaz's infantile character has yet again failed to die horribly in a car crash. That is a real shame. The various "Movie Bumper" clips in the office, then the airplane, then on the television in the cottage home, are all annoying as well as repelling.
At the moment, the only saving grace of this load of agonizingly repulsive movie centering on the agonizingly repulsive Cameron Diaz's shallow character are the set pieces and the low-contrast photography. I remained eagerly patient for the moment in which Cameron Diaz's character would be horribly disfigured just to give even the slightest level of introspection, humility, or grace as that character worked past the agony to become a tolerable human being. Sadly, it appears that she does not. I would have cut as much of Cameron Diaz's role out of this movie as possible and focused entirely on Kate Winslet's character. I honestly did not care one way or the other about either actress before seeing this movie. I dearly pray that Cameron Diaz is not as repulsive a human being as she plays in this movie.
I would give this movie a 5 (no impression at all --- leaving me not caring in the slightest about the movie before or after), but Cameron Diaz's role was such a huge negative impact that it would be painful to rewatch and submit myself to enduring the twittering pointless idiocy of Cameron Diaz playing a character with less dignity than a 3-year-old child in a 30-year-old's body. She plays a fine CGI-animated Princess Fiona, but in this movie, YUCK!