Post by Robin MichelleYea, I didn't know that she was in it before I saw it. I was actually just
flipping through the channels and saw her and ended up watching that P.O.S.
Movie just to see if she was going to reappear.
I'm gonna just polish and repost what I said about SN in October:
I bought the DVD of Sweet November about six months ago and
spent the whole time watching it thinking how much better a
movie it would have been if they hadn't miscast Charlize
Theron in the part that LG should have played. Actually,
come to think of it, the simmering conflict between Reeves'
self-absorbed lawyer, Nelson Moss and Graham's businesswoman
Angelica in those first 15 minutes looked like it could have
made for a *much* more interesting movie than what followed.
Which was Love Story meets Dharma & Greg -- and who the
heck would be better to play a non-blonde Dharma than
Lauren Graham? (That's a rhetorical question.)
Graham has a light touch -- an ethereal quality that
paradoxically enables her to lift great dramatic *and*
comedic weight. Charlize Theron -- umm. Well, she's
blonde -- aaaaaaand she sucks the life out of every
scene she's in. Which is no mean feat when you're
playing opposite Mr. Zen Stony Wall Matrix Guy himself,
Keanu Reeves. There's no chemistry at all between Theron
& Reeves and *major* chemistry between him and Graham.
All the more bizarre given the much better chemistry
between CT & KR in the earlier "The Devil's Advocate"
that *still* wasn't as good as between LG & KR in the
opening scenes of this movie. It would certainly have
helped if CT could act, but flashing her dimples every
time she smiles isn't acting talent. It almost screams
to me that the director had to cast CT over LG as the
lead because at the time of the filming (1999-ish, pre-Gg
or 2000-ish, pre-Gg explosion), CT was a bigger name,
for whatEVER stupid reason. Of course, I'm speculating
here on the whys, but still, it's a spectacular example of
idiotic miscasting.
OK . . . finally: I'm just gonna say a hearty "hubba hubba"
about LG's primary costume in SN and leave it at that. Except
to add that somebody in Bad Santa's costume department
must have seen this movie.
-- Rob Jensen
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