∞ "The Natural" (Not)

99 Words filed by Frank @ 22:14 | 13-May-09 in Cinema |

Okay, I’m trying to watch “The Natural,” but the big courtship scenes between Robert Redford and Kim Basinger (she even gives him a greeting kiss with a loud, smacking “MUUUUAAAH!” sound), and the overwrought blue filter that the cinematographer used to fake an air of mystery and to light up the nighttime beach, and the dry ice faking as fog in the background … are all so unwatchable that they are giving me the hives.

Redford’s such a totally passionless cold fish that he actually makes Basinger, no warm-blooded actress herself, look like a simulacrum of a Lana Turner vamp. ★

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