{"id":1722,"date":"2014-03-22T08:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:09:08","slug":"enough-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Enough Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rs_560x415_130806122756_1024_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"James Gandolfini, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Enough Said\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/rs_560x415_130806122756_1024_converted.jpg?resize=250%2C185\" width=\"250\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>Such a shame James Gandolfini\u2019s near-last movie had to be the lifeless <i>Enough Said<\/i> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nEEJaIjF_Lo\">trailer<\/a>). The acting is fine, but the dialog is awful. And at the crisis moment, when he asks the heroine why she did what she did, the writer drew a blank, leaving poor Julia Louis Dreyfus to just shrug. So much for motivation. As reviewer Nathan Rabin said, \u201c<i>Enough Said <\/i>is afflicted with a terminal case of what Roger Ebert dubbed \u2018The Idiot Plot,\u2019 in which a single reasonable sentence uttered in a rational tone could easily, diplomatically resolve the film\u2019s core conflict.\u201d Actually painful to watch.<\/p>\n<p>As is so often the case with Hollywood, what these two see in each other is another blank\u2014they laugh a lot, or she does\u2014and she has to be a pretty dumb cluck not to question some of the received opinions about him. Her friends\u2014Toni Collette and Ben Falcone\u2014are a mysterious couple, who stay together because . . . actually, I can\u2019t figure out why. Collette, it turns out, is a therapist, but displays no insight into her friend\u2019s relationship or why she herself keeps rearranging her furniture. Same house, same furniture, same husband.<\/p>\n<p>Rotten Tomatoes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/enough_said_2013\/\">rating: an unbelievable 96<\/a>, which I have to believe reflected the reviewers\u2019 respect for Gandolfini in roles other than this one. Among audience members\u2014generally more forgiving\u2014only 78 percent liked it.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Maybe in Hollywood, they still call a woman \u201cmasseuse,\u201d but everywhere else it\u2019s \u201cmassage therapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such a shame James Gandolfini\u2019s near-last movie had to be the lifeless Enough Said (trailer). The acting is fine, but the dialog is awful. 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