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The Good Girl

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:53 / 25.11.02

Has anyone seen this? I saw a preview last night (it doesn't open in Australia until April) and went along expecting to hate it - am not a Jennifer Aniston fan. She's really terrible, I think. But, to my surprise, it wasn't bad. She was pretty good in it, playing a yokel check-out-chick. Jake Gyllenhaal is in it, and he's playing another damaged boy, but... hmm.

More thoughts when I've organised them. Anyone got something to say?

The Return Of Rothkoid

20:56 / 25.11.02

Metacritic page on the film here.

Tom Coates

13:20 / 26.11.02

I thought it was an odd little film in which Jennifer's character and image collided sometimes quite well, but sometimes with tremendously unconvincing results. I just couldn't believe her behaviour at the end - that's not what I thought she'd DO, and I think that's because of the fact that I couldn't divorce her from Aniston's character in Friends. Similarly with the blackberries - i couldn't believe she'd do that either...

grant

15:36 / 26.11.02

I quite liked it, because I don't watch Friends all that much (1) and her character reminds me of people I knew growing up (2).
I could buy the blackberries thing, but only as a kind of shocking surprise - it's out of character for her, and I think she acknowledges that through subsequent actions which I won't reveal here for fear of spoiler action.
Jake Glynnenhall is fucking amazing, but the best acting came from the painters, Aniston's character's husband and buddy (the dudes from PT Anderson and "O, Brother"). They completely sold me. And they made Aniston look pretty good, too.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:10 / 26.11.02

Grant; you're right about the painters. They make it work. The husband's not the ogre he's meant to be - he's just a dork, and we can see it, a poor blotting-out dick. And his friend, who just wants to be a slut, of course.

I'd not actually realised how .. uh .. ugly, Tim Blake Nelson is before, though...

Jack Fear

01:44 / 27.11.02

I can't imagine how you missed it all this time.

Jack Fear

01:45 / 27.11.02

His friends say he's ugly: he's got a masculine face.

Heh.

The Return Of Rothkoid

03:37 / 27.11.02

Aw, come on. Delmar was cute, in a kind of wet way.

(But has he got real scars?)

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