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Monday, July 26, 2004
Catwoman Review
I’ll get to the actual Comic-Con fan report soon, but first let me say a few words about a movie I just saw, Catwoman. Like most people I did not like this film. My main complaint is that the directing was just awful. So much of the time it looked like some hyper-active ad for Pepsi that I was just turned off by the whole film. I didn’t want to get into the excitement of the Catwoman character if that meant I had to sit through another eyeball-torturing fight scene. Hell, not even the fight scenes were given that type of treatment. A basketball game between Benjamin Bratt and Halle Berry was given the look of Nike’s latest campaign. As for the movie’s romance itself, Bratt had more romantic chemistry when he was playing opposite Jerry Orbach. The scenes between those two were a snooze-fest, although to be fair so were most other scenes in the film.
The actual Catwoman stuff featured Berry, Sharon Stone and the guy who was in the Matrix sequels giving the scenery some deep bite marks. Hamming it up may be fun for the actors, but all I could think of was that a campy take on the Catwoman character was done before and done better by Eartha Kitt. It didn’t help that the film thought it could turn the campy stuff on and off like a faucet (first Berry is licking Bratt’s face and than she’s crying in the interrogation room with him? What the fuck!?). Having a goofy time works in low-budget, fun movies. It doesn’t work in a big budget movie, at least not for me. When I see a group of creators being flip and trivial with millions of dollars all I can think of is better ways for that money to be spent (what can I say, I was raised by a Jewish Scotsman, worrying about money is in my blood).
As for that costume, I would have preferred if they stuck with the first one she used. It may have been nothing more but a leather get-up one could find on Melrose Ave. with a simple mask no doubt held to the face with spirit gum, but it was simple and effective. Instead we got some terrible S&M outfit with a lot of skin showing and a goofy looking mask. It might be easy to masturbate to, but no so hot when it comes to crime fighting.
I would recommend this movie if you enjoy the feeling of being bored and dizzy at the same time, other than that just Tivo some of the old Batman shows off of TV Land.
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I...I don't even know you anymore...
# posted by Dorian : 9:18 AM
Oh yes you do. Always cycnical about big movies that the studios try to shove down our throats? That's how I've always been.
# posted by Ian : 10:57 AM
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