[lbo-talk] Woody Allen's latest stupid movie

[Chuck]

joanna wrote:
> I don't normally see Allen's movies because they are boring, and 
> depressing. But my sister broke her foot two days ago and she wanted 
> some company....so off I went.
> 
> This latest "Match Point" (a kind of "Room at the Top" meets "Talented 
> Mr. Ripley" ) is not only a piece of boring, misanthropic, moralistic 
> tripe -- that much I expected -- but, he keeps repeating two of the 
> loveliest operatic themes around ( a bit from "Pearl Fishers" and a bit 
> from "L'Elisir D'Amore"), thus ruining this music for me for the 
> forseable future, as every time I will hear it I will think of his 
> stupid piece of crap movie.

As somebody who loves Woody Allen movies, I'm not inclined to take 
negative reviews seriously from people who admit that they dislike 
everything the director does.

Chuck