Comments on: Movie Review – Catwoman http://www.fernbyfilms.com/2008/09/26/worst-film-week/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:03:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rory Dean http://www.fernbyfilms.com/2008/09/26/worst-film-week/comment-page-1/#comment-3438 Rory Dean Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:35:55 +0000 http://www.fernbyfilms.com/?p=2137#comment-3438 I think this film is such a great example of throwing a popular actor 'of the moment' into a poorly written, shabbily conceptualized comic book adaptation. I also think you're right about the post Oscar buzz phenomenon that has caught up more than one or two hapless stars who do their best (or their handlers do their best) to capitalize on mainstream attention. I think it has worked for Shia LeBouf with his string of one film after the other, but he does possess some talent beyond the robot and Indiana Jones flicks. And yes, sadly, Sharon Stone has become a caricature of herself slowly, steadily since Basic Instinct. I tried to sit through Barry Levinson's Sphere the other day during research for the article I wrote on him and it was painful to say the least. Stone was empty, stumbling through bad lines and even worse plot. Good call. I think this film is such a great example of throwing a popular actor ‘of the moment’ into a poorly written, shabbily conceptualized comic book adaptation. I also think you’re right about the post Oscar buzz phenomenon that has caught up more than one or two hapless stars who do their best (or their handlers do their best) to capitalize on mainstream attention. I think it has worked for Shia LeBouf with his string of one film after the other, but he does possess some talent beyond the robot and Indiana Jones flicks. And yes, sadly, Sharon Stone has become a caricature of herself slowly, steadily since Basic Instinct. I tried to sit through Barry Levinson’s Sphere the other day during research for the article I wrote on him and it was painful to say the least. Stone was empty, stumbling through bad lines and even worse plot.

Good call.

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