Friday night - indulged in a couple of drinks and headed out to see what all the fuss was surrounding the new Blonde Bond! The few glimpses of his topless torso on the promos were also a motivation, but lets not get into that!
We did arrive a good hour before the scheduled show - turns out all shows till midnight were SOLD OUT! Now this ain't no midget size theatre - it's a fairly decent size one with multiple shows running! But never underestimate the charms of Mr. Bond - he's not one to lose his fan following anytime soon!
No one wants to be the loser who makes a trip to the theatre and goes home without seeing a movie so we frantically searched the show listing for something watchable. A Good Year - was playing at a good time, had seats available - which was even better and Russell Crowe was playing lead - excellent!
When I walk into a movie at a very 'movie-watchable' hour and do not see seats filling up, a great sense of panic fills me! The head count was dangerously low here - which has often, in the past, been an indication that the next few hours of cinematic experience are going to be pure torture! You may not trust critic ratings but you can bet you're money on the head count inside the theatre!
And how I was right...Mr. Crowe's unshaven face with his bewildered, lost expressions so reminiscent of his 'Beautiful Mind' days failed to bring out the character of a slick, bullish, egolomaniac stock market trader nor did it move me through his so- called transformation which ultimately leads him to refuse a partnership in a city and retire into the old world charms of a vineyard he inherents from a dead uncle!
The two women in the movie are eyecandy and the setting somewhere in France, supposedly, is a good backdrop. But the movie in itself is so losely written, progression from one scene to the other seems disconnected somehow, the Indian lady playing Russell's secretary has the most annoying dialogue delivery - all in all it was just a drag and I am still to decipher why it is titled - 'A Good Year' !!!!
If only Mr. Bond had saved the night !
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