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March 20, 2004It's been a busy week,
It's been a busy week, what with my birthday, the opening of "The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" down at Redlands Footlighters, and the end of the Winter Quarter at UCR. I plan on spending my Sprink Break as unproductively as possible. Well, that's not really true; I plan on doing all sorts of things, but all of them fun and relaxing.
First on my list of things to do is to go see "Dawn of the Dead" this afternoon. I'm always up for a good zombie movie, and from what I've heard/read, this one ain't half bad--as opposed to "Taking Lives," which also opened yesterday, and which I know for a fact to be completely bad because my friend Erin and I saw it as members of a test audience a few months back.
In skimming the "Taking Lives" page on RottenTomatoes.com, I was gratified to see that a good number of reviewers have compared Angelina Jolie's career tailspin to Ashley Judd's trailblazing mediocrity. Judd's hideous resume has transformed her into something more--and less--than human, a creature with which to scare child actors: "Don't turn in terrible performance after terrible performance, or you'll turn into Ashley Judd!"
I used to carry a bit of a torch for Ashley Judd, I will admit. That was before I found out she used to date Michael Bolton, and before she cranked out 11 forgettable or actively bad movies in the seven years since her last half-decent performance in "Kiss the Girls". Her latest offering was "Twisted," a cinematic tour-de-force that received a whopping two positive reviews out of the 115 that were compiled.
With any luck, though, Angelina Jolie will have packed it in before her own career hits such a nadir. Her son is quite taken with planes, and Jolie has said publically that she'll quit acting as soon as she's learned to fly.
Posted by patrick at March 20, 2004 12:53 PM
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