Since the version we watched quite clearly said, "Review Copy," we guess we should review it, if only to maintain Basically, this movie is an almost complete The romantic story line, nerdy boy meets geek girl, overcomes an Quite frankly, Drew Barrymore peaked in E.T., and her career trajectory playing on every existing twisted stereotype The poor woman seems trapped by the public’s insatiable desire Jimmy Fallon, meanwhile, has managed to prove he can do "serious" comedy We would not recommend wasting your hard-earned money on this bomb Last night we watched "Fever Pitch" the new comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmie Fallon and set against the backdrop of the Red Sox run to the World Championship. Since the version we watched quite clearly said, "Review Copy," we … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/DREWA.jpg\")
Last
\n night we watched "Fever
\n Pitch<\/a>" the new comedy starring Drew
\n Barrymore and Jimmie Fallon and set against the backdrop of the Red Sox
\n run to
\n the World Championship.<\/p>\n
\n some pretense of conventional journalism as part of our life-long quest
\n for legitimacy. <\/p>\n
\n waste of time and hardrive space. The location scenes around
\n Boston, which with the exception of one scene in Kenmore Square were
\n completely devoid of shots of any
\n of the stars, probably allowing them to be filmed weeks before or after
\n the real talent was in town, compared unfavorably with footage shot by
\n our Japanese students with hand-held digital cameras on their first day
\n in
\n the country. <\/p>\n
\n annoying but not debilitating handicap (he is a fanatical Sox fan),
\n leading to a dramatic Fenway Park proposal, is so lame that it begs
\n for deletion, and yet is not bad enough to be camp or provide a satisfying
\n laugh. Finally, the tacked-on ending was rewritten after the
\n Sox won the Series during the filming, in a form so transparent and
\n tacky
\n on
\n that
\n it detracted from our real memories of the blessed moment and turned
\n it into a crass commercial tagline attached to a shitbox vehicle for
\n two aging youth stars coasting on quickly diminishing career momentum.<\/p>\n
\n has been been downhill ever since. Admittedly,
\n she had a subsequent short but stimulating return to significance when
\n she showed some mature promise and exposed skin in Bad
\n Girls <\/a>(1994).as the teenaged sexpot in a group of badass
\n women wranglers. But
\n of course,
\n she achieved
\n this
\n promising presence
\n by<\/p>\n
\n and fetish of middle-aged, middle-class American males,
\n like Jane Fonda in Barbarella, but damn, did she ever look good in those
\n skimpy cowgirl corsets and lacy intimate wear. Like la Fonda, she
\n later
\n repented and tried to transition into
\n deeper roles and leftish political positions, As a result
\n of those doomed efforts and a bizarre marriage to certifiable madman
\n Tom Greene, her image instead morphed into slightly skanky eccentricity,
\n which she in turn tried to counter by fleeing into ever more ridiculous
\n romantic comedies. <\/p>\n
\n to see her in cute dating flicks. Her "serious" movies
\n (like "The
\n Amy
\n Fischer Story" or "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind") have
\n been flops, pretty much, so far as we can tell.We hope she finds some
\n decent roles soon, as she is becoming
\n a one-trick pony
\nreal quick, and it’s a disgusting, treacly trick at that.<\/p>\n
\n as well as the ridiculous SNL sketches like "Mango", and little else.
\n We doubt Chase, Akroyd, Martin, Meyers and Carvey are looking over
\n their
\n shoulders
\n at this rising young stud. <\/p>\n
\n – it is sure to hit cable within months, where at least you can change
\n the channel when the nausea hits.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"