Comments on: Movie Review: Not So “Precious” http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2009/11/26/movie-review-not-so-precious/ Commentary on the arts Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2009/11/26/movie-review-not-so-precious/comment-page-1/#comment-3249 Anonymous Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:35:25 +0000 http://blog.theartsfuse.com/?p=3809#comment-3249 Fine, fine r'viewin', old bean. I actually found myself laughing at "Precious" with self-mocking contempt for most of proceedings, never more so than in the scene in which Martin Lawrence, as Big Momma, tries to drop the television in slow-motion on the head of her daughter/granddaughter, whilst the "soulful" gospel music wails and the snapshots of Big Momma and baby from years ago pop up like it's an episode of "This Is Your Life." It's an embarrassingly bad moment in a cringe worthy film; can't wait to see this film inevitably triumph on that ultimate celebration of shitty film making: Oscar night. Fine, fine r’viewin’, old bean. I actually found myself laughing at “Precious” with self-mocking contempt for most of proceedings, never more so than in the scene in which Martin Lawrence, as Big Momma, tries to drop the television in slow-motion on the head of her daughter/granddaughter, whilst the “soulful” gospel music wails and the snapshots of Big Momma and baby from years ago pop up like it’s an episode of “This Is Your Life.”

It’s an embarrassingly bad moment in a cringe worthy film; can’t wait to see this film inevitably triumph on that ultimate celebration of shitty film making: Oscar night.

]]> By: Jen http://blog.theartsfuse.com/2009/11/26/movie-review-not-so-precious/comment-page-1/#comment-3079 Jen Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:55:45 +0000 http://blog.theartsfuse.com/?p=3809#comment-3079 This is one of the most brilliant reviews I've ever read; the prose absolutely delicious; and which has me wondering if a novel, or novel-in-the-works, exists by Justin Marble. Rather than appreciate his review simply as a movie review, I found myself caught up in the sheer skill (for language, for sentence-building, for conveyance of meaning), of Mr. Marble as a writer. I've got to research his work. Wow. This is one of the most brilliant reviews I’ve ever read; the prose absolutely delicious; and which has me wondering if a novel, or novel-in-the-works, exists by Justin Marble. Rather than appreciate his review simply as a movie review, I found myself caught up in the sheer skill (for language, for sentence-building, for conveyance of meaning), of Mr. Marble as a writer. I’ve got to research his work. Wow.

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