Catwoman was the inflight movie on the plane flight I took yesterday afternoon. Seeing as how the screen was right in my field of view and I was pretty much going to have to watch it anyway, I thought, "I trashed this movie without having seen it, so why not take a look at it as long as I'm here, so that I can trash it again with authority?"
And, yes, the direction is awful, the screenplay is terrible, the CG Catwoman is even more unconvincing than the CG Blade in Blade 2 (she is actually shorter and fatter in some scenes than others, and consistently has different proportions than the real Halle Berry), the dialogue is awful, the music is awful, and for God's sake it's the first time I've watched a movie and actually thought, "Even the costume design for this movie is awful." And Catwoman effectively signals the end of Sharon Stone's career, and the catfight (heh) at the end during which Stone says, "Game over!" and Berry responds, "It's overtime!" made me weep for the death of American cinema.
But honest to God, and I didn't think I'd have the occasion to say this, Halle Berry was actually a good Catwoman. She shifts her physical performance completely between Catwoman and her "normal" alter-ego, which almost makes up for the stupid costume she has to wear and the terrible lines she has to deliver. If the producers had actually gotten a decent director, and the screenplay had at least gestured toward continuity with the rest of the DC Comics universe instead of coming up with a weak satire about the evils of the cosmetics industry, that movie would have probably been pretty good.
Oh, well--not the first time there's been a waste of a comic book license.
And, yes, the direction is awful, the screenplay is terrible, the CG Catwoman is even more unconvincing than the CG Blade in Blade 2 (she is actually shorter and fatter in some scenes than others, and consistently has different proportions than the real Halle Berry), the dialogue is awful, the music is awful, and for God's sake it's the first time I've watched a movie and actually thought, "Even the costume design for this movie is awful." And Catwoman effectively signals the end of Sharon Stone's career, and the catfight (heh) at the end during which Stone says, "Game over!" and Berry responds, "It's overtime!" made me weep for the death of American cinema.
But honest to God, and I didn't think I'd have the occasion to say this, Halle Berry was actually a good Catwoman. She shifts her physical performance completely between Catwoman and her "normal" alter-ego, which almost makes up for the stupid costume she has to wear and the terrible lines she has to deliver. If the producers had actually gotten a decent director, and the screenplay had at least gestured toward continuity with the rest of the DC Comics universe instead of coming up with a weak satire about the evils of the cosmetics industry, that movie would have probably been pretty good.
Oh, well--not the first time there's been a waste of a comic book license.
