Originally posted by Don Vercetti: What do you think of Match Point, Plaw?
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Originally posted by plawrence: I enjoyed Match Point, DV, but I certainly don't think it was one of his best.
I also think that a lot of his recent work has been criticized rather harshly and unfairly, and since Match Point was probably a cut above some of the things Woody has done recently as far as being what I'll call "a technical piece of film making", the critics were a bit lavish with their praise.
Call me crazy, but I really enjoyed his recent Hollywood Ending, and also Anything Else Yeah, they were a couple of simple and goofy comedies, but I found them both to be quite funny.
I saw it in the theatre when it first came out, but hadoccasion to see it a second time yesterday on DVD.
One of the reasons that I don't write full-scale reviews is that I can really be a dunce sometimes and miss the obvious.
After watching it yesterday ( and then reading a few IMDb reviews), what I wrote above still stands, however
I didn't realize after my first watching how heavily Woody borrowed from the plot of his own work, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and even more so from a great and truly under-rated film, A Place in the Sun.
