Miscellaneous Movie Musings

Alex · 04-06-2008, 08:48 PM

I saw Leatherheads today as well. I do enjoy watching George Clooney on screen. And I liked the idea behind what he was doing.

But it just didn't work. Zellweger gets Rosalind Russell's lines but nobody gets Cary Grants so she just stuck out like a sore thumb. They handled Clooney being way too old for his role, but not the fact that John Krasinky is also way too old for who he was playing. Either that or I missed something. It is mentioned a couple times that at 31 Zellweger's character it too old for Krasinky's, and it is said he is 23 years old. But he fought in WWI, it is 1925, and he has four years of college under his belt. The math doesn't work. Plus, the movie is set at a time when the NFL has already been established. The football scenery was more like the 1900s or 1910s but then Zellweger's character probably wouldn't have been possible in the same way.

And the fact that I was thinking about that shows how little I was caring about the actual movie.

04-06-2008, 08:48 PM	#11
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I saw Leatherheads today as well. I do enjoy watching George Clooney on screen. And I liked the idea behind what he was doing. But it just didn't work. Zellweger gets Rosalind Russell's lines but nobody gets Cary Grants so she just stuck out like a sore thumb. They handled Clooney being way too old for his role, but not the fact that John Krasinky is also way too old for who he was playing. Either that or I missed something. It is mentioned a couple times that at 31 Zellweger's character it too old for Krasinky's, and it is said he is 23 years old. But he fought in WWI, it is 1925, and he has four years of college under his belt. The math doesn't work. Plus, the movie is set at a time when the NFL has already been established. The football scenery was more like the 1900s or 1910s but then Zellweger's character probably wouldn't have been possible in the same way. And the fact that I was thinking about that shows how little I was caring about the actual movie.
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