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"Nobody wants to see a guy who's 74 hitting on a woman of any age. But I don't want to make geriatric movies about old people because they bore me too."
-Woody Allen is having a hard time with getting older.
I love you Woody, but just stop.
The last film of yours I saw was Vicky Cristina Barcelona and it was unbearable.
Right? I could only make it through like 20 minutes of it. It was the first one I'd tried to watch since the similarly unbearable 'Anything Else'.
Just hearing that there was a narrator….what the fuck?
Lots of great films have a narrator.
This was not a great film.
Not much reed left in the clarinet.
too much dye in the caviar at Russian Tea Room.
Waiting for the Palastine/Gaza flick.
"Hannah and her sisters have no corriander and need kiddy toys"
The "but" is causing me comprehension problems . Perhaps I'll make a movie about how awkward that is for me.
Also, "geriatric movies about old people" is a mite redundant.
Maybe it's time to set up a foundation for the development of young actresses who specialize in imitating (male, obvs) directors.
Match Point was pretty great, but that's about all I can say in his defense.
Watch it again or twice more. Feh. The usual blah view of women, and clueless about how society is today.
And I quote, "Come back, back, back, more, more, more, back, back, (crash) back…" (waves to signal driver that perfect parking has been achieved).
He makes an indisputable argument. There simply is no other option but for Woody to continue making movies in which he seduces women at least 50 years younger than him.
Much as I love some of his movies, I never want to watch Woody Allen hit on a woman no matter what his age.
"Do you have a great-granddaughter?"
Here's a thought. Make movies about someone other than you.
He has not idea of what that is. The average pampered Upper East Side trophy wife is Emma Goldman compared to Woody.
der, NO idea.
So, he wants to be NY Bergman. But Bergman only appeared in a handful of his own movies, in uncredited cameos.
A screenwriter acquaintance has a theory that he "borrowed" or commissioned the script for MATCH POINT in order to try to do just that, since apparently he can no longer write about anything outside of his own experience or creepy erotic fantasy life.
But being better than HOLLYWOOD ENDING isn't the same as being as good as HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.
Woody Allen was never cast against women with whom a guy who looked like woody allen would have a chance in real life (unless of course, he was Woody Allen).