<p>I suppose the title says it all. We went to see this movie last night and thought: Rachel McAdams was terminally annoying, Harrison Ford was embarrassing, and only Diane Keaton was even slightly entertaining. OK, I feel better now–thanks for listening.</p>
<p>We were supposed to see Fair Game, but the car acting up on the way to the movies, so my sainted dear H told me to go to a movie he wouldn’t want to see while he got the car looked at, and he’d meet me back at the movies.</p>
<p>Found myself in Morning Glory. Totally concur with above. NOTHING redeeming. And the reviews were not that bad. Crazy critics. Rom coms are a guilty pleasure, but there was no pleasure in this one. Yuck.</p>
<p>total fluff. best scene, when Harrison drinking with real reporters</p>
<p>I’m so disappointed to read this–seemed like it had potential (love Diane Keaton).</p>
<p>I fell asleep…not a good thing.</p>
<p>JJ Abrams is now 2 for 2 in the “flop” department: Undercovers (cancelled) and Morning Glory …if stuff happens in “threes” I would “short” Bad Robot stock…</p>
<p>on a very different note, “Unstoppable” was great!!!</p>
<p>I only very rarely trek to a movie theater although pretty regularly read the reviews in the Washington Post. They did not like Morning Glory: [Critic</a> Review for Morning Glory on washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/morning-glory,1111808/critic-review.html#reviewNum1]Critic”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/morning-glory,1111808/critic-review.html#reviewNum1) . FWIW, they really liked Unstoppable and Megamind (even more!).</p>
<p>I heard a review of this film the other day on my radio news station. The reviewer said that Harrison Ford “sucked the life out of every seen in which he appeared.”</p>
<p>I saw it yesterday and liked it. I had read reviews that said it was good for the first half and went downhill, so maybe I had low expectations.</p>
<p>Oh, Lord, had no interest in this one, but I do love Harrison Ford. Cannot stand Rachel McAdams or Diane Keaton, not a chick flick person, so won’t waste my time. Thanks for the warning, because I was wanting a Harrison Ford fix. I actually liked Regarding Henry and the one where his wife had an affair and died in a plane crash. That was truly awful, but I was happy to see Hans Solo on screen again. I guess he’s not aging as gracefully as Robert Redford did.</p>
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<p>There was a line in the movie when Rachael tells Ford that he showed up at the TV station for the money. I think that fits.</p>
<p>Too bad: the premise and the cast sounded promising. I’m not familiar with Rachel McAdams, though.</p>
<p>The Post review makes me want to see the movie that could have been.</p>
<p>Rachael McAdams has been in a lot. Google her imdb page. I think I’d seen her in five movies.</p>
<p>She is relentessly cute – not her fault. She has the biggest dimples I have ever seen. In MG toward the middle the DP starts to use some camera angles to make her look a bit grown up because although she’s in her thirties, she registers as a sixteen year old. Not really, but the cuteness factor is way up there. </p>
<p>She is best in Mean Girls and The Family Stone when she is not the lead.</p>
<p>I’d only seen Rachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers, and did not care for her. Totally resisted seeing Time Travelers Wife because I do not like either her or Eric Bana. But during a bout of insomnia, caught Time Travelers Wife and loved the story, so I was able to put up with her. After Time Travelers Wife and catching Black Hawk Down after another bout of insomnia, I am now willing to give Eric Bana a chance. It will take a really good movie for me to sit through two hours of Rachel McAdams, though. The Family Stone, that is my idea of hell. Rachel McAdams and Diane Keaton, plus other whiny women, that would be even worse than sitting through Morning Glory.</p>
<p>Did you see it? And are you a migogynist? “Other whiny women?”</p>
<p>No, I didn’t see it. You’re right. I shouldn’t judge without seeing it. I’m just not a girly girl, would rather go swamp tromping than clean the house, and just the previews for The Family Stone gave me the willies.<br>
Cannot stand Sarah Jessica Parker, who, to me, is the ultimate “whiny woman”, so I assumed the movie was full of them.</p>
<p>I apologize for the comment “whiny women”. I let my love of alliteration get the better of me.</p>
<p>As for being a misogynist, I don’t think disliking certain women makes me one. There are many actresses I do, in fact, like, including Sigourney Weaver and Anne Hathaway, who probably have played “whiny women” at some point in their career, but have shone in their roles as strong, independent women.</p>
<p>Only thing Rachel Adams was in that I liked was the recent ‘Sherlock Holmes’ movie with Robert Downey Jr. She played Irene Adler and used her girly looks to good advantage.</p>
<p>Too bad the movie is not good. I was Diane Keaton speak in Denver a few years ago and really liked her.</p>
<p>Montegut: I apologize for my impulsive reaction; however I do think a term like whiny women plays into misogynistic biases. I myself am a career woman who was grateful to be working so dust bunnies would never have to be explained.</p>
<p>As for The Family Stone, no one likes Sarah Jessica Parker’s character in the movie; that’s one of the points. She is not appealing but is somewhat redeemed.</p>
<p>I think it’s a fine hour for Diane Keaton who plays a very touching character.</p>
<p>But it’s a comedy, sort of.</p>
<p>I like it. It’s good for Christmas. Along with Love Actually, which I initially hated because of all its references to fat. But I’ve grown to love it.</p>
<p>As for Morning Glory, it doesn’t deserve its own thread, so I’m glad other things are being discussed.</p>