Waitress
So, of course, I rented this movie because Adrienne Shelly was tragically murdered before the movie came out and well, I’m just one of those people that buy Aaliyah albums after her plane crashes.
However, rather than a morbid curiosity, Waitress was actually a good movie. Remember all the hub bub about Jennifer Aniston in “Good Girl”? Keri Russell vomits all over her in this and the rest of the cast is also a perfect meld of beautiful ordinariness…if that makes any sense. “I don’t expect much, give much…get much, so I’m happy enough, I guess.” You do see the end coming a mile away and it’s got a touch of the pixie fairy dust to it, but hey, I still spend five bucks in lottery tickets whenever the jackpot crosses 70 million dollars, so I guess I’m hoping for my own pixie fairy dust ending.
November 30th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I saw Waitress on a plane, since it was the only movie playing. It was surprisingly good. You hit it on the head. It’s what Aniston should have been doing in Good Girl instead of her overdone powerless backwoods chick thing she did. Jeremy Sisto was great as the husband too.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I liked it fine up until the ridiculous ending. Sorry for the self-linkage, just more efficient.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Well, upon rereading my own review, I guess I liked it *okay* until the ending, after which I started to really dislike it.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I’m mostly with Anwyn on this, I liked it, but the ending was annoying and predictable. But Matlock rules, and Captain Mel is awesome.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Matlock does indeed rule.
November 30th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
And I have such a thing going for Jeremy Sisto… can’t wait til the new season of L&O starts up.