i love you phillip morris
13 Feb 2010 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneI loved I Love You Phillip Morris (we caught the sneak preview last night). It was a brilliantly made movie. And I laughed as much as I did during Sherlock Holmes! Or more, maybe. A lot both times, though. Anyway, I mean, I knew it was Jim Carrey in a romantic comedy, but they talked about, you know, the romance aspect so much in the press for it that I thought it would be one of his more serious roles! Which, I don't know, I mean, he wasn't doing his - typical Jim Carrey slapstick stuff, really, so perhaps you could say it was. But still, it wasn't remotely heavy.
Although as for They're Not An Issue Movie They Just Love Each Other syndrome, I definitely left the theater with a strong sense of "You can get life in prison for embezzlement in Texas, whereas in Finland, violent murderers are out after a decade or so because apparently prison is expensive, and instead of spending money on it we'll just have to hope the criminally insane don't do too much damage!" Surely that's an insane amount of sentencing flexibility. How is that even possible? Obviously "because it's embarrassing to Shrub in an election year" was not what the prosecutor or the judge or whoever entered in the... whatever. How is the maximum penalty for any amount of embezzlement or conman-stuff life without parole? The public could hardly afford to keep every chronic conman locked up like that! The number of executives from high up in the insurance and banking industries alone would probably exponentially increase the current rate of exponential increase of public debt!
The poster they're using for it in Finland is
AWESOME, but different from most of the ones we were able to find with Google this morning. Which is a shame, because most of the other posters are not as awesome:
1. Scottish?; 2. De-gayed; 3. Japanese; 4. free picture that comes when you buy a picture frame style?; 5. Sundance poster from '09
I remember the movies where Ewan is brash and/or kind of an asshole very clearly, so it was kind of surprising how disarming (and convincing!) his baby bunny eyes were when playing a gracefully aging twink. And weirdly - my wife agrees, although she is not American nor from the South so this may not carry much weight if you don't know how awesome she is at accents - his American accent was not as agonizing as it has been in the past! Big Fish for example - same accent, much more agonizing. The general wrongness was still there but the sprinkling of glaring actual slip-ups were absent, sort of.
Although as for They're Not An Issue Movie They Just Love Each Other syndrome, I definitely left the theater with a strong sense of "You can get life in prison for embezzlement in Texas, whereas in Finland, violent murderers are out after a decade or so because apparently prison is expensive, and instead of spending money on it we'll just have to hope the criminally insane don't do too much damage!" Surely that's an insane amount of sentencing flexibility. How is that even possible? Obviously "because it's embarrassing to Shrub in an election year" was not what the prosecutor or the judge or whoever entered in the... whatever. How is the maximum penalty for any amount of embezzlement or conman-stuff life without parole? The public could hardly afford to keep every chronic conman locked up like that! The number of executives from high up in the insurance and banking industries alone would probably exponentially increase the current rate of exponential increase of public debt!
The poster they're using for it in Finland is
AWESOME, but different from most of the ones we were able to find with Google this morning. Which is a shame, because most of the other posters are not as awesome:
1. Scottish?; 2. De-gayed; 3. Japanese; 4. free picture that comes when you buy a picture frame style?; 5. Sundance poster from '09
I remember the movies where Ewan is brash and/or kind of an asshole very clearly, so it was kind of surprising how disarming (and convincing!) his baby bunny eyes were when playing a gracefully aging twink. And weirdly - my wife agrees, although she is not American nor from the South so this may not carry much weight if you don't know how awesome she is at accents - his American accent was not as agonizing as it has been in the past! Big Fish for example - same accent, much more agonizing. The general wrongness was still there but the sprinkling of glaring actual slip-ups were absent, sort of.
