![]() ![]() ![]() Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) is a child attending a party given by his parents and largely ignored, indeed scowled upon. And as a thriller, it plods along like a tired old elephant. It lacks the profound vision to be absurdist or existential. The movie lacks the sophistication or cleverness to be a satire or even high camp. There’s little substance here and little focus. Much of the blame must be placed with director Jennifer Chambers Lynch, who also wrote the screenplay, and with those who decided to give her the money to make this movie - the producers, Carl Mazzocone and Philippe Caland (who’s responsible for the story), and executive producers James R. ![]() The real reason is: ″Boxing Helena″ is a bad film - with terrible acting, cliched dialogue, a silly script, pedestrian camera work and inferior direction. Its uncomfortable theme of a female living torso kept as the trophy of an obsessively demented male doctor already has feminists foaming at the mouth.īut that’s not the reason this movie should be dismissed. JAMIE: I flunked a pop quiz in poli-sci because I couldn’t stop thinking about you.Undated (AP) _ ″Boxing Helena″ is going to be much-maligned, but probably for all the wrong reasons. JAMIE: However, not talking to you has turned out to be impossible. JAMIE: Yes, talking to you would’ve been a distraction. Now either pull a Boxing Helena, or give me back my hand. PARIS: Look, you don’t have to be nice, you don’t have to tie up loose ends. Paris mentions the film while asking Jamie if he’s come to stalk her. Also I hate Anna Nardini so soz Sherilyn Fenn but nah.ģx07, They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They? (2002) Also unless I rage blacked out I’m pretty sure she never even got put in a box… Finish watching this film 10mins before the end when he gets knocked out and it’d be 100x better than the result I got. ![]() I mean seriously? I was taught when I was about 8 to never end a story ‘and they woke up an it was all a dream’ like seriously? I was half enjoying it and embracing all the weird but that cop out is bullshit. So this was heading for a 3 star… maybe even a 4 and then they had to end it like that…. ![]()
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