Margo At The Wedding

This movie was disappointing. It was a waste of some great acting [not by Jack Black though]. I can't put my finger on exactly what was wrong with it [except Jack Black] but here's one thing. It seemed like a husband's idea of what's going on between his wife and her sister and not what would actually go on between two sisters. Sister's don't talk about f***ing each other's husbands. We're a lot more subtle and confusing than that. There are scenes in Hannah and Her Sisters that are accurate. The scene when they're having lunch and Holly is passive-aggressively punishing Hannah by only ordering a salad, while the sister who really is f***ing Hannah's husband is trying to be really nice to her which only kind of freaks Hannah out and makes her uncomfortable. That's what sister's are really like. They don't say, "you ruined my life, you're a crazy bitch." What fun would that be? Plus, you know you're gonna have to hang out with them again, so you tend to keep the cards closer to the vest.

This is reminding me of one of my biggest movie disappointments to date, Ghost World. This may surprise you because it wasn't a bad movie at all. It just wasn't the story I wanted to see. The Ghost World stories in the comic book, Eightball captured that time in female friendships when dealing with boys and differing levels of ambition can break up the best bff's. The growing gap between the two girls and the tiny little things that mark it's progression are a truly sad/beautiful thing to see. So i wasn't super-psyched that it turned into another coming-of-age/quirky love story. There aren't that many movies about females fighting that feel authentic [Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion being an exception that leaps to mind]. So it makes me sad when I see such good material thrown away. Steve Buscemi was great, but he's always good. They could've made a whole other movie out of Eightball stuff for him to be in and left the girls alone.