Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I enjoyed Match Point. I thought it was one of his better films. EH1812, did you watch the entire thing eventually or just the 40 minutes you mentioned?

Just the 40. I'm really not a fan of JRM - aside from Velvet Goldmine I think he tends to deliver uneven performances: good in one scene, absolute crap in another. And SJ, who I love in some movies and am ambivalent in others, was equally on/off in this. I don't think seeing it from the beginning will change my opinion of their acting.

Granted, I like only a handful of Allen flicks. Much to my surprise, I enjoyed Melinda Melinda a great deal. I thought I might like Match Point more because it was supposed to be so different from his other films, and he was pleasantly absent. For similar reasons, I liked The Purple Rose of Cairo, as well. And The Sweet and Lowdown. I think he ruins his own films when he's in them for the most part. Scoop might have been okay if Allen was out of the pic and didn't direct his actors, SJ in particular, to speak just like him. I guess I just don't like her in his movies.