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In Reply to: Sweet Lord, she's just plain awful! posted by TAFKA Steve on January 6, 2004 at 12:37:40:
I'm not the best person to evaluate Ms. Pidgeon. I just do not get David Mamet. The precise thing I dislike about his movies is his direction; aside from that, all is in place for a decent film. But that weird, stylized woodenness just seems arch and winking--in a word, dull--to me, like the most Hollywoodized version available of cool intellectualism. There's something very cynical and unsatisfying about anything I've seen of his. It seems purposefully flat and vapid. I'm sure that there are folks who get off on that sort of thing and could set me straight on how it's all this masterful exercise in irony, but I don't care. I know art, I know good art, and I do not like David Mamet. I love Godard, so I don't need to be briefed on cinematic metafiction; I positively dislike David Mamet. Ergo, I'm no fan of his main squeeze. So, long story short, I heartily agree--particularly about the awkward asymmetry of her being paired with Hoffman, probably the best actor of his generation.
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