Specialty Box Office: December 17-18

COMMENTS (4)

• This has become my favorite recurring article.

  Comment by Kenny — Monday December 19, 2011 @ 12:44am PST  Reply to this post

• Tintin is open? Poland has this listed on his site as well. Huh?

  Comment by tophertilson — Monday December 19, 2011 @ 4:28am PST  Reply to this post

• That’s a serious disappointment for Reitman and Cody. Charlize is game and does everything she can, but the premise of the film is too thin and pointless. In an age where people are reconnecting with old flames by the droves on Facebook, there was a chance to say something about the nature of aging and nostalgia, and the price you can pay for wanting to live in the past like Gatsby, but they just skimmed the surface of things, propelled not by story but by Charlize’s charm and commitment to playing an unlikable woman. Diablo Cody gets a lot of hate, but I think what annoys a lot of people, save for the stylized hipster dialogue (of which there is thankfully little in YOUNG ADULT), is a lack of thoughtfulness in her work. You can write about immature characters in a mature way, but she doesn’t do that. Style over substance is her Achilles heel. And a step back for Reitman, as well.

  Comment by Tony — Monday December 19, 2011 @ 5:04am PST  Reply to this post

  • Good post, but I would go farther. All of her scripts are like first drafts. Even Juno had things that should have been easily remidied during a decent development process. I know Hollywood often “develops” scripts to the point of near death but come on. Cody’s scipts read like the work of a precocious first year USC student who hasn’t learned how to write a proper script yet.

    Comment by bill — Tuesday December 20, 2011 @ 12:23am PST  Reply to this post