Cheered up my boring Saturday afternoon
Posted: January 25th, 2009, 3:52 pm
I really hate Saturday afternoon for TV, so I generally watch what I've taped all week long.
I would however like to say, I watched a 1994 movie yesterday named Bad Girls. starring Drew Barrymore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Madeline Stowe as four ladies of the night who have trouble in town and are forced to move on. The whole thing starts with 3 of the four freeing 1 from being hanged, and they decide to ride together, and try to start new lives. Naturally in the next two hours they run into all sorts of nasty men who cause them more trouble but all together this is a fun movie. As with all westerns there is a great shootout at the end, but all through the movie, all four girls do a bang up job in making you forget they are helpless little women.
Naturally, with women as the leads, the trouble that brews is the threat of rape instead of hanging or beating, or fast draw, but they're pretty much prepared for that.
You know how I feel about newer movies, but this is a good one. In the past 14 years all four girls have matured and improved their acting talents but at the time this was made, it was a good idea to pretty much even out the parts. There wasn't any one main star, but that added to it becoming a good movie. Oh believe me, there were no threats of Oscar here, or even Golden Globes, but it was fun, and that's what most of us want in a movie, I would think.
Anne
I would however like to say, I watched a 1994 movie yesterday named Bad Girls. starring Drew Barrymore, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Madeline Stowe as four ladies of the night who have trouble in town and are forced to move on. The whole thing starts with 3 of the four freeing 1 from being hanged, and they decide to ride together, and try to start new lives. Naturally in the next two hours they run into all sorts of nasty men who cause them more trouble but all together this is a fun movie. As with all westerns there is a great shootout at the end, but all through the movie, all four girls do a bang up job in making you forget they are helpless little women.
Naturally, with women as the leads, the trouble that brews is the threat of rape instead of hanging or beating, or fast draw, but they're pretty much prepared for that.
You know how I feel about newer movies, but this is a good one. In the past 14 years all four girls have matured and improved their acting talents but at the time this was made, it was a good idea to pretty much even out the parts. There wasn't any one main star, but that added to it becoming a good movie. Oh believe me, there were no threats of Oscar here, or even Golden Globes, but it was fun, and that's what most of us want in a movie, I would think.
Anne