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movie review - Drop Dead Gorgeous

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Sydney, 2000.07.30

Amusing, but somewhat too awkward to really fly. It's about a beauty pageant, and the dire deeds committed by certain parties attached to the event. And all of the fallout that follows. Beauty pageants are represented as they frequently are: the ultimate female cat-fight and also a place for leches to come crawling out of the woodwork. I think this thing is supposed to be a comedy but I don't think the writers play-tested their comedy before making this thing. Showing people with terrible wounds or self-inflicted illness isn't funny.

Not recommended. What can I say... Once in a while, my girlfriend chooses a movie despite my protestations. Is that fair? I don't know.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.