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Things I learned from "The Dead Girl"...
You know what's better than a hooker with a heart of gold? Two hookers with hearts of gold, who are in love with each other!
Other things I've learned from The Dead Girl...
1. If an old lady is throwing clothes into a fire, you should NOT yell "Don't take off anything more!" because she will! And you definitely shouldn't mutter, "No, no, please, no more!" because then there will be boobs and you and your friend will look at each other uncomfortably and then ignore what just happened on screen by eating a spring roll.
2. You can know exactly what a character is going to be like by the actor playing the role. Toni Collette played a homely woman with issues. Giovonni Ribisi played an awkward, creepy character with social interaction issues. Rose Byrne played a serious girl who was often weepy and rarely smiled ... and was a doctor. Brittany Murphy played a drugged up crack ho. Marcia Gay Harden played a put upon woman with a southern accent. Mary Steenburgen was shrill. Piper Laurie played a crazy, mean old lady. And Kerry Washington played a crack ho ... um, okay that one was against typecasting. Usually Kerry Washington plays smartly dressed executives, smartly dressed blind women, or streetwise mothers.
3. Brittany Murphy can act. Trust me I was as shocked as anyone else. She literally had me in tears at the end. Brittany Murphy! I can't wait until dogs start walking people, and fish build reverse boats and hunt us for sport.
Also, despite this post, The Dead Girl was a really good movie that I would totally recommend. And the crack ho's really are in love.
Other things I've learned from The Dead Girl...
1. If an old lady is throwing clothes into a fire, you should NOT yell "Don't take off anything more!" because she will! And you definitely shouldn't mutter, "No, no, please, no more!" because then there will be boobs and you and your friend will look at each other uncomfortably and then ignore what just happened on screen by eating a spring roll.
2. You can know exactly what a character is going to be like by the actor playing the role. Toni Collette played a homely woman with issues. Giovonni Ribisi played an awkward, creepy character with social interaction issues. Rose Byrne played a serious girl who was often weepy and rarely smiled ... and was a doctor. Brittany Murphy played a drugged up crack ho. Marcia Gay Harden played a put upon woman with a southern accent. Mary Steenburgen was shrill. Piper Laurie played a crazy, mean old lady. And Kerry Washington played a crack ho ... um, okay that one was against typecasting. Usually Kerry Washington plays smartly dressed executives, smartly dressed blind women, or streetwise mothers.
3. Brittany Murphy can act. Trust me I was as shocked as anyone else. She literally had me in tears at the end. Brittany Murphy! I can't wait until dogs start walking people, and fish build reverse boats and hunt us for sport.
Also, despite this post, The Dead Girl was a really good movie that I would totally recommend. And the crack ho's really are in love.
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Yeah, I'll admit I didn't love that section and if the whole movie had been those characters I don't think I would have enjoyed it at all. That sequence was really weird and creepy, and we were talking throughout most of it because we didn't like it much.
The movie picked up with the second set of characters though in "The Sister" section, and the third section "The Wife" was good but disturbing though no where near as bad as the first section, and the fourth section "The Mother" and and the fifth "The Dead Girl" totally broke my heart. Section, 2, 4 and 5 really made the movie for me.
But, yeah I can totally see how the Collette/Ribisi stuff would've put you off. I think it was a terrible way to start off the movie, but the rest of it was quite good.