Comments | anti_gravitas: Bank Holiday Monday Special, Part 1: NOTHING is scarier than Ali Larter's bow-lipped overbite.

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Bank Holiday Monday Special, Part 1: NOTHING is scarier than Ali Larter's bow-lipped overbite.

May 04, 2009 10:59

To be honest, Obsessed (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1198138/) seems more like a long-format promotional video for Beyoncé's latest album, rather than an infidelity-free Fatal Attraction/Disclosure/Any Other Michael Douglas Movie for the noughties, and I felt sorry for Idris Elba as ( Read more... )

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trailer_spot May 4 2009, 11:06:02 UTC

May I ask what forces compelled you to watch Obsessed? Some kind of research? :)

sensaes May 4 2009, 11:08:53 UTC

I'm stalking Ms. Larter's dental work.

Spooky - I've just made a half-arsed statement of justification on your Journal, but it's still not very convincing, I'm afraid. *G*

trailer_spot May 4 2009, 11:17:14 UTC

And I left a similar reply. ;)

The movie is one of the many surprises this year. Nobody likes it and it will probably make more money than Wolverine. Maybe not on an absolute level but certainly percentage wise. I can very much understand the argument that with the world-wide recesssion people like going to the movies. I only wish they would choose slightly more intelligent offerings.

How desperate are people? Very, apparently. sensaes May 4 2009, 11:23:07 UTC

Probably shouldn't underestimate Beyoncé's power in all of this (her family name is all over the credits), but...oh, and that's another thing, albeit trivial: it might be down to poor font choices, but even the opening titles for Obsessed look as though they belong in a sub-par, made-for-TV movie.