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Topic: Erin Brockovich
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Tom Ferreira
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 203
From: Conway, NH, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-20-2000 12:33 AM
I like the idea of this, Brad. It makes us seem like real movie fans and not just a bunch of tech heads, so I'll get the ball rolling.
First let me comment that I absolutely hate Julia Roberts. People flock to see her formula romantic comedies. I've never found them to be anything but star vehicles-all fluff and no substance. The last thing I liked her in was Mystic Pizza.
That out of the way, my wife and I were cleaning a year's worth of caked on oil off of the popper on Friday morning, and decided to take a break. She really wanted to watch Erin, and I was feeling lazy, so what the hell.
Turns out it's the best film I've seen in a while. When it got rolling, I started thinking I had already seen this story in A Civil Action, but it was a better and more satisfying film that that. She had me won over when she said that she hated lawyers, she just worked for them. Director Steven Soderbergh did a fine job keeping the film flowing, though I did find it about fifteen minutes too long. Albert Finney did a great job as well-you just don't see enough of him these days.
I do have a few problems-the sound mix, which is a tech thing, and I hate the analog sound mix on ALL Universal pictures anyway.
The other thing that bugged me was, here's a single mother with no money in the bank(as we're constantly being reminded), and her outfit changes in every single scene of the film. We're not talking off the rack at Walmart, either-she dresses to kill.
By the way, the real Erin Brockovich makes a cameo as a waitress early in the film. She basically just stands there and smiles. Watching this scene, all I could think of was at the end of Pee Wee's Big Adventure when Pee Wee is watching his life story at the drive in, with James Brolin playing Pee Wee and Pee Wee playing a bellhop. I wonder who would play me if I ever did anything interesting and they made a movie out of it....
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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 962
From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 03-30-2000 09:25 AM
Finally saw the movie. I must say it's above average for Julia. A nice break from, like Tom says, formula romantic comedy. The one thing that disappointed me is how they had to follow the standard "rebel playing by their own rules vs. uptight, stiff, emotionless, prickly bad guy" (as in Julia not liking the male and female lawyers they bring in to help with the case, who end up contributing nothing). Why can't more than one lawyer per movie be warm and natural? Otherwise, her best movie yet, which isn't saying a whole lot. BTW Bryan, Notting Hill sucked. ------------------
"Asleep at the switch? I wasn't asleep, I was drunk!" - Homer Simpson
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