84 - Pretty Ugly People

Connection To A THOUSAND WORDS - Allison Janney

If is a film is bad, hell even terrible in doing this six degrees (or 84 degrees chain at the minute), it can be a good thing - I can watch in enjoyment or gritted teeth depending on which type of bad it is, a worse thing in killing my interest for a film is just blandness - Pretty Ugly People - which I watched yesterday (most of the films I wrote about yesterday where watched on the Saturday) and honestly it just killed my interest dead in watching something else for the rest of the day - I would go as far to say this of all 84 movies this is the least pleasure I've took from anything I've watched .

Pretty Ugly People became the most challenging film for me so far because (besides one thing which I'll say later) most of the characters where I wouldn't say unlikable but just not people to have any reason to root for, if I had an ounce of interest in these characters it would take away from much of it's obvious plotting.

Missi Pyle is the fat friend in a group who gets them all to come home by sort of implying she's dying, while in fact she's lot a shit ton of weight and wants to go on a hike she was never allowed to go on a kid because her family didn't think she could handle it.

On paper, you can't fault cast - Melissa McCarthy, Josh Hopkins, Phill Lewis (Hooch is crazy), but the characters they are given are not particularly interesting, McCarthy as a good moment I suppose involving using a satellite phone. Honestly of the cast I say take Octavia Spencer out of this movie... the only reason why? She's much too memorable to be part of a movie where the rest of it is so forgetful, she deserves to be transplanted to a much better movie.

Spoiler Zone for next paragraph - Hopkins character is pretty homophobic to a character who's a single male air steward, can you guess the twist in the tale? yes Hopkins character is gay all along and masking it, man this is the second film I've watched and that's been the case and the other film, while lot great - Cursed - did it better (how is that possible?), there's also while I'm complaining an example of death by convenience towards the end.

Overall, the least interesting movie I've watched so far, which would probably put top of the list (or thereabouts) of my least favourite movies experiences on this blog

Potentially no updates next few days (not related to this film).