Bleeding Fiction

If you IMDB her, you'll find she was on Gilmore Girls. The bitch.

By the way, why is predictable bad in this case? A movie or story need not have it's plot and story direction be arcane to be good. For some things, like a mystery, or horror maybe, it's very important for suspense. But often it's all about making you care about the characters and the sense of style they bring to it. Otherwise, we'd have stopped seeing productions of Shakespeare long ago, no? I will end rant. I am just still railing against the "it's not good because it's not original" thing, which is stupid since nothing is wholly original, and the best stories are retold.

well havent seen the movie but she does seem cute in the picture link you posted

Uhm... Ogre? Dude? Not to aggressively disagree with you or anything, but read what I said again. I said it was a little predictable but that being predictable was [i]fine[/i] because the point of the movie was the people and not the original story. In other words, I already said what you said...

Yes but you wouldn't say: it was beautifully shot, which is fine. You don't qualify things you LIKE. Know what I mean?

I do know what you mean, and the reason for the qualifier is that predictable can be bad, whereas beautiful cinematography rarely is. A film is never going to suffer from having beautiful cinematography, whereas a film might suffer from an unoriginal plot.

Beautiful cinematography was only a bad thing in Dark City, where EVERY shot was too full and beautiful for its own good.

Back to the issue at hand. The point is, mentioning is being critical of it. I.e. it was predicatable enough that you noticed and felt it needed to be mentioned. In even mentioning it, it implies you'd prefer it weren't, and it becomes a criticism. You may not be saying the movie is bad because of it, but it matters to you, otherwise you wouldn't mention it.

I am inclined to disagree with you on the first count.

On the second, well, yes. All other things being equal I would prefer the plot were not predictable. I don't see how this is a criticism, though. It's like sushi. I have a known preference for eating sushi. If I'm out eating pizza and comment "it's fine that this is hot and tastes of cheese and tomato sauce," that implies nothing bad about the pizza. At worst it draws attention to the fact that what we are eating is not, in fact, sushi.

Which is what I was going for in my statement: "do not be looking for a plot that's full of surprises in this movie, because that's not, in fact, what this movie is all about." In this I think I was successful, and if I've managed to forwarn my readers such that they do not walk away from the movie disgusted by its unoriginal plot, which otherwise may have been an unpleasant surprise, and instead enjoying the portrayal of human characters, then all is for the best.

Go me!

Just for the sake of completeness, I went back and watched the episode of Syracuse Live that had Riki in the "Love Talk" sketch. Turns out Janice was the one who stood up and asked a question about having Herpes and not wanting to tell anyone about it. Riki played a prostitute complaining about her pimp, causing Professor Jacob P. Mosley to have some sort of anurism and fall over in his chair. This was quality television, people...

D'oh!

I feel so foolish! I also so wish that I had those seasons on tape... It wasn't really my best work, but it was some pretty good stuff nonetheless...