In-Flight Movie

[bcholmes]

Unfortunately, I read the books I took with me before my return flight, so I was desperately looking for ways to pass the time on the flight back. So I watched the in-flight movie. Mostly I don't do that, because I can't stand it when movies are edited, trimmed, or modified to fit the screen. But I enjoyed the two movies I saw, especially In Her Shoes which, I must confess, I hadn't even seen ads for.

Good points:

• Toni Collette in a starring role (something that I don't think I've seen since Muriel's Wedding)
• Passes the Bechdel-Ginger benchmark
• Really good depiction of exasperated love that comes with family
• A wide variety of female characters who each get good moments
• e.e. cummings poetry

Bad points:

• Small amounts of "fat character becomes happy and thin at the same time"
• The story is a bit saccharine

Comments

[elissaann.livejournal.com]

Oy. She doesn't become thin in the book.

I would like the author even without the Princeton connection.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Who was the fat character?

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Well, fat in Hollywood terms... Toni Collette's character is said to be fat in the film (and there's a horrible baby shower scene that drives this point home), and gets slimmer as the film goes on.

Toni Collette gained weight for the role (as she did with Muriel's Wedding).

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Ah, OK. Since I wasn't listening to the movie, I didn't realize that I was supposed to be seeing her as fat.

[lcohen]

i want to like jennifer weiner's books much more than i wind up doing. she's the friend of a friend of mine and i remember reading _good in bed_ and finding parts of it so intrusive and off-putting....