Quick Movie Review: Rachel Getting Married

Whew, tad late to this one considering how much I loved Anne Hathaway's small, albeit brilliant, role in Brokeback Mountain.

Basic Plot Summary: Fresh out of rehab, problem-child Kim (Anne Hathaway) comes home to see her sister wed.

Overall, it's a tour de force type performance from Hathaway, and a throw away from everyone else. The dude from TV On the Radio is in it, and his name is forth or fifth listed on the billing; as you can see, this film has no care at all for its secondary characters. Hathaway completely nails the sarcastic-disturbed-girl thing in a way that Ellen Page could only wish for. (I saw Juno on a date; it fucking sucked) Any-who, Hathaway received an Oscar nom for this performance, and despite Kate Winslet winning, (for the wrong movie...Revolutionary Road says Hi) I feel it was probably a close tie to Winslet more than just a standard "We need five nominees" nomination.

Some Issues with the movie: Minor sex scene toward the beginning that's so quick it doesn't serve a purpose; Supporting characters/actors are weak, minus maybe Rachel herself, although she comes across as very soap-opera theatrical; Humming Wolf Like Me to yourself in every scene Tunde appears in; The whole concept the story revolves around: A former drugged up member of the family showing up for a wedding and causing nothing but problems and awkwardness for the others; well, it's cliche as hell.

In summation, I'd recommend this film if you're not apposed to watching otherwise weak films, that happen to have a single great performance in them. On a side tangent, these movies are very abundant come Oscar time (Did anyone fucking watch Benicio Del Toro as Che? C'mon) and I find myself being slightly bored of them. They usually review quite lukewarm, and garner single acclaim for the lead actor, and nothing else. This year saw the trend of what I like to call, "Single Performance Films" continue with: Rachel Getting Married, Changeling, Frozen River, The Visitor....and the list goes on. (See Casey Affleck in Jesse James last year) That aside, Rachel Getting Married is at least worth watching for its "Single Performance" and does not make a bad on-demand rental at 12:00 at night.

Whew, tad late to this one considering how much I loved Anne Hathaway's small, albeit brilliant, role in Brokeback Mountain.

Basic Plot Summary: Fresh out of rehab, problem-child Kim (Anne Hathaway) comes home to see her sister wed.

Overall, it's a tour de force type performance from Hathaway, and a throw away from everyone else. The dude from TV On the Radio is in it, and his name is forth or fifth listed on the billing; as you can see, this film has no care at all for its secondary characters. Hathaway completely nails the sarcastic-disturbed-girl thing in a way that Ellen Page could only wish for. (I saw Juno on a date; it fucking sucked) Any-who, Hathaway received an Oscar nom for this performance, and despite Kate Winslet winning, (for the wrong movie...Revolutionary Road says Hi) I feel it was probably a close tie to Winslet more than just a standard "We need five nominees" nomination.

Some Issues with the movie: Minor sex scene toward the beginning that's so quick it doesn't serve a purpose; Supporting characters/actors are weak, minus maybe Rachel herself, although she comes across as very soap-opera theatrical; Humming Wolf Like Me to yourself in every scene Tunde appears in; The whole concept the story revolves around: A former drugged up member of the family showing up for a wedding and causing nothing but problems and awkwardness for the others; well, it's cliche as hell.

In summation, I'd recommend this film if you're not apposed to watching otherwise weak films, that happen to have a single great performance in them. On a side tangent, these movies are very abundant come Oscar time (Did anyone fucking watch Benicio Del Toro as Che? C'mon) and I find myself being slightly bored of them. They usually review quite lukewarm, and garner single acclaim for the lead actor, and nothing else. This year saw the trend of what I like to call, "Single Performance Films" continue with: Rachel Getting Married, Changeling, Frozen River, The Visitor....and the list goes on. (See Casey Affleck in Jesse James last year) That aside, Rachel Getting Married is at least worth watching for its "Single Performance" and does not make a bad on-demand rental at 12:00 at night.

I liked it also, it was indeed a strong performance from her, which was only highlighted further by the weak cast around her. Hathaway is totally believable in the role, she plays a complex recovering addict very well in my eyes, she gives you little glimpses as to why she developed an addiction throughout.

Nice wedding scene, It was cringe worthy at times for authenticity, and it had nice music.

Performances is individual films should be judged, not past work. Winslet shouldn't have one on that performance for me. Di Caprio's character was far more interesting to me as a viewer.

You, sir, DO NOT DESERVE TO SEE JUNO!!!!!!!

Had never heard of it before. Ignorance is fun!

Some parts where okay, but I found most of the movie too boring. And I don't know if Anne is just a really good actress, or if she played it on too thick, but I absolutely hated her character. She got on my nerves the entire movie. On the plus side, I really loved the idea of the entire music soundtrack actually being played in the movie by those musicians.

Hard Candy was creepy and weird. Not recommended by me...

You've piqued my interest, i'll give it a watch sometime.  Having Tunde from Tv on the radio in it makes me qutie want to see it, even though I wouldnt have associated him with films like this.

And Hard Candy is really really good, my balls shrivelled during the err.... game of operation