I’m back, and I’m crabbier than ever. (Didja miss meeeee???)
Why on earth are we revisiting the “lovely woman of a certain age gets tied up with codger her father’s age” picture…again? It wasn’t enough to hit my gag reflex with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in As Good As it Gets? Honestly, any time they kissed during that movie, I made a “squick!” face that would’ve done my 3-year-old nephew proud.
And now, 71-year-old Dustin Hoffman is coming onto lovely 49-year-old Emma Thompson in some Channel Four-produced puff known as Last Chance Harvey. The plot sounds twee enough: they meet cute, she takes pity on his plight (no date for his own daughter’s wedding! plus — sob! — he’s not even allowed to give the bride away…) So she’ll succumb to a bit of dress-up & paint-up, charming all in her path, including, we assume, Harvey, and then after the wedding they get their “last chance” on, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
Why 71? Hasn’t she earned a trip round the yard with the new Bond or Colin or Gerard or Clive or Hugh? You know…someone her age she can BEAR TO SEE NEKKID. Cause — sorry — once you hit my father’s bday, don’t even think about loosening that belt.
And if I do end up seeing this movie for the delightfully scatty broad that Thompson is, I’m going out afterwards to nail my 17-year-old barista Robbie. Just to show everyone I can still do it.
Runner-up to today’s Crankette: Tina Fey, STFU! If yours is great comic acting, my pet rabbit is looking for a part on 30 Rock. And as re: your Golden Globe acceptance speech (which I missed because every time you talk I go spontaneously deaf)…honey, I wouldn’t call us your “haters”. That would imply emotional involvement. Which we don’t got. We’re your eyerolling faction.
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Welcome back,
CranketteWankette.You were well missed because the fellers here just don’t understand a darn thing about wimmen!
And yes, why doesn’t Harvey stick his “last chance” into a shriveled up old bag his own age? Like that strumpet Helena Bonham Carter, for example?
And on the advice of your attorney, puleeze be sure that Robbie is 18. Seventeen year old boys, barista or Boy Scout, cannot consent to any kind of nailing (unless the nailer is a GG double winner – then it’s art).
I don’t understand how Emma Thompson was cast in the first place. She’s a almost 50. She can act. She has a brain.
They don’t use actresses like that in Hollywood anymore, do they?
YAAAAAAAAAA She’s back! YAAAAAAAAAAA………………
Awesome!
I can’t figger out why anyone made this movie but then I realize I have family members who are approaching 65 and its an ode to the older half of the Baby Boomer Generation AKA Generation P. I mean Hoffman doesn’t seem to remember that hye is too old to be playing characters like Harvey. And even Helena Bonham Carter is too young for him.
Glad you are back-
As an explanation why, most guys see this when they look into a mirror:
http://www.t-nation.com/img/photos/2008/08-075-training/image012.jpg
This is me…really….
ahhhh… all is right with the universe again.
“And if I do end up seeing this movie for the delightfully scatty broad that Thompson is, I’m going out afterwards to nail my 17-year-old barista Robbie. Just to show everyone I can still do it.”
Hell ya and Hallelujah!
G-man, that is some mirror. Can I borrow it?