Comments on: Random notions about Ghost Town http://piddleville.com/2009/01/10/random-notions-about-ghostworld/ Musings about movies Thu, 03 May 2012 00:20:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mernitman http://piddleville.com/2009/01/10/random-notions-about-ghostworld/comment-page-1/#comment-11756 mernitman Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:09:26 +0000 http://piddleville.com/?p=1040#comment-11756 I had similar feelings, but basically liked it. Yes, it's a romantic comedy (rom-com/fantasy hybrid), and evidently a conscious attempt on Koepp's part to update the Screwball. Well-produced in that sense, don't you think? NYC as "movie Manhattan"... Weird about Tea Leoni, isn't it! It's as if she was born into the wrong era or something -- always close but no cigar, and yet... she's got it, whatever it is. Strange career. My own theory is that James Brooks' misguided misuse of her in Spanglish dealt her a near-fatal blow; if that had been the great Tea Leoni role (which it could've, should've been, and went horribly, un-empathetically wrong), she'd have been getting better parts and developing better roles for herself, since. I had similar feelings, but basically liked it. Yes, it’s a romantic comedy (rom-com/fantasy hybrid), and evidently a conscious attempt on Koepp’s part to update the Screwball. Well-produced in that sense, don’t you think? NYC as “movie Manhattan”…

Weird about Tea Leoni, isn’t it! It’s as if she was born into the wrong era or something — always close but no cigar, and yet… she’s got it, whatever it is. Strange career. My own theory is that James Brooks’ misguided misuse of her in Spanglish dealt her a near-fatal blow; if that had been the great Tea Leoni role (which it could’ve, should’ve been, and went horribly, un-empathetically wrong), she’d have been getting better parts and developing better roles for herself, since.

]]> By: Bill http://piddleville.com/2009/01/10/random-notions-about-ghostworld/comment-page-1/#comment-6144 Bill Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:54:59 +0000 http://piddleville.com/?p=1040#comment-6144 Okay ... so last night I watched it again and found it not nearly as glum as I did the first time. In fact, I didn't really find it glum at all. I quite liked the movie. Go figure! Okay … so last night I watched it again and found it not nearly as glum as I did the first time. In fact, I didn’t really find it glum at all. I quite liked the movie. Go figure!

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