To Be Fat Like Me. Seems like it's going to be a good movie.
Ya'll should watch it. It's coming on Lifetime at 9 PM EST. I was laying there watching this new dating show Gay straight or taken, and I remembered I hadn't posted anything about it.
I think they'll show it after this also. At least they used to do it. Back to back, yanno. Try at 11. Will & Grace is usually on, but maybe they'll show it then.
I thought the movie was very good. It was an interesting perspective. If you didn't get a chance to watch it tonight then you should check it out on a re-run. I think they are playing on Friday of this weekend and Saturday of next weekend.
They're playing it again on Sunday at 8pm EST. I've only watched half of it so far, b/c I TIVO'd it. It was pretty good, I'm going to watch the rest of it tonight.
I watched it and thought it was pretty good, although I wish Caroline Rhea would stop taking roles that only cast her as "the fat one." Especially considering her size represents the average post-baby American woman. I was wondering about the girl with red hair--in some of the scenes it kind of looked like she'd been padded or made up to look more overweight than she might be in real life.
I hate it when they pad people up to look fatter. I understand why they do it some in this movie, but in general why couldn't they just cast fatter people?
Same here, Lizzie. Rather than take a thin actress and stick her in a fat suit, why not find a fat actress? Gah. I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it bugs.
I gotcha, obvious -- bugs me in the same vein that they cast Charlize Theron for "Monster" and spent hours making her ugly--- why not cast a not-as-attractive actress instead, I'm sure they have enough trouble finding roles w/o being told they're too ugly (from the director's perspective.)
They had a point to make about using a skinny girl, and then putting her in a fat suit. She was skinny and perfect, and never knew what it felt like to be fat. She thought that her personality would win people over.
So she did this topic "To Be Fat Like Me" to enter into a journalism conteast at school. And she found out that it is hard to be fat, b/c people judge you.
didn't miss much if you ask me. I thought it was disappointing at best. Although I really did like the actual "fat girl" that was in the movie ... I'd like to see her do more movies or a show.
I thought that the main character didn't learn any kind of lesson other than "don't be fat because being fat sucks" and I don't need a movie to teach me that. The characters were flat and they made it seem like Caroline Rhea's character was like "what's eating gilbert grape" obese... not like maybe 300 lbs fat.
Oh and the show was sponsored by Jenny Craig which also peeved me, i'm not sure why though.
To Be Fat Like Me. Seems like it's going to be a good movie.
