NYT Film Critic Likes 'Old Fashioned Orgy,' Pans G-Rated 'Seven Days in Utopia'
An R-rated flick about a bunch of friends having an orgy gets hailed in today's Weekend Arts section as a "friendly, ramshackle comedy" albeit "somewhat laugh-deficient" while a G-rated drama about a young golfer being mentored by a retired pro is panned as a "stultifying hybrid of instruction film and Christian sermon" that "swoons into its own solemn sanctimony."
That's how New York Times film critic Stephen Holden treated "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy" and "Seven Days in Utopia," respectively, in the September 2 paper. Both movies debut in theaters today.
"When it finally gets under way, the orgy is tame, even by soft-core standards," Holden insists. "It's all very sweet and lightly comedic."
By contrast, "Seven Days" is a "humorless, mystically fortified golfing movie" which Holden snarks is "a kind of Southern-fried, Christian 'Tuesdays with Morrie.'"
At the conclusion of "Old Fashioned Orgy," "you half expect a statement to appear on the screen promising, 'No humans were traumatized during the making of this film," Holden quipped.
Apparently to Holden, Robert Duvall's "folksy homilies" and the "chaste romance" subplot of "Utopia" are far more offensive to the average movie-going New York Times reader than "paying homage" to "lost youth" with "group sex."
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This Is What We Expect From The NYT
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 4:11pm.
Their television critics do equally bad. Many people wonder why the networks can't find a good shows. A stupid sex comidy may or may not be funny but it is not going to be enriching.
Not enriching in any sense,
Submitted by russedav on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 6:11pm.
for Gs always make more $ than filth but these perverts are so obsessed with their antiChrist bigotry that they're happy to lose money to spread their deranged degeneracy as far as possible, forcing their religion down the throats of others while demanding "tolerance." No hypcrisy there.
Holden is a filthy subNazi immoral degenerate
Submitted by russedav on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 6:12pm.
who would be jailed and beaten in a civilized country.
God We Look Stupid . . .
Submitted by FAR52 on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 8:00pm.
when we are worried about the social impact of movies. Good grief. We as republicans have many things to be concerned about. This ain't one of them. And for the record, I'm definitely checking out the orgy movie.
Movies Do Have Impacts Several Times A Political Speech
Submitted by Avitar on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 3:28pm.
Going back to a Ron Howard directed movie, “Splash!" staring the dingbat who is in the news today for getting arrested, Darrel Hannah. In the movie they pick out a name for Darrel Hannah's character based on where they were at the time, Madison Ave. She became Madison and the name Madison as a girls' first name went from not on the list the year before the movie to fourth most popular girls' name at one point in the last decade.
This is why we are concerned about movies. Madison is a wonderful man to name your children after but a decision in a movie to create that trend is a power that needs to be of concern to everybody.
I am going to see "Utopia"
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 9:34pm.
I am going to see "Utopia" for two reasons:
1) Robert Duvall, one of the greatest American actors of our times.
2) If Holden likes a film, it is usually because he has a penchant for cinematic excrement.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
I wish WILLIAM Holden was still alive,,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 09/03/2011 - 7:42pm.
So he could kick the living SNOT out of this poser! Esp for sullying his fine name!