Dave Niehaus, RIP

And she doesn't even have big ones!

Titties that is.

So the basic argument is that all the film critics lost their objectivity because they saw a film with a small-breasted woman topless?

I haven't seen the movie of "Mrs. Palfrey", but the book, by the woefully overlooked Elizabeth Taylor, is a gem.

WHOMP

In the directors cut Jolene gets a job at Hooters.

Lindy, what can I say? I am all admiration. (for you, I mean, not the movie, which looks like Emanuelle for the 21st cent).

Baci a voi, come sempre.....

What's your favorite kind of liquor, Lindy? I wanna buy some and send it to you. I weep in gratitude when this bullshit gets called out for what it is.

Lindy,
I won't be seeing the film, but your snarky review was priceless.

@3 I think the point here was that supposed critical objectivity is often a facade, and none of the dudely critics appeared to be responding to the female protagonist as anything other than an aesthetic object. Not as, say, a person with feelings whose life sounds horrible and unpleasant. "But it's tragic, because she's so beautiful!" We've heard this song before.

Please don't ever change, Lindy.

Oh, Lindy! Spot on and brilliantly hilarious as usual.

"...burn rubber on me, Jolene !" Men are douchebags.

My enjoyment of this review's general Lindy Westiness is somewhat compromised by the fact that it's still kind of a cheap ad hominem directed at a bunch of other critics who _obviously_ couldn't conceivably find anything else redeeming in a movie scientifically proven to be unremarkable by Lindy West unless it featured a pair of tits. After all, in the Internet age, publicly available images of breasts are exceedingly rare, and thus male movie critics are simply incapable of keeping their wits about them on those oh-so-rare occasions they surface.

No, seriously, Lindy, what did you *really* think of this movie?

Okay, I was just scrolling up through older posts on SLOG, and my eye caught on your review. Care to guess why?

The trailer looks kinda kooky, campy and fun. Perhaps lightening up a teeny bit is in order?

@18 - Did we see the same trailer? I watched it incredulously, thinking "This looks like one of the worst movies ever made. I can't believe it's coming to a Landmark Theater!" Then the credit "Directed by Dan Ireland" appeared at the end, and it all became clear: Landmark has been a "friend of SIFF" since the very beginning, so they're showing it as a favor to their old SIFF friend.

I happen to LIKE titties.

Hilariousness aside, and there's plenty to put aside, I think Lindy's review of the earlier Ireland movie - excerpted in this review - defending the elderly - deserves some kind of award. No one does that unless she's a card-carrying member of AARP or something. Way to go Lindy, kid.

"downmarket Dave Navarro"

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!! What the fuck was THAT??! I just read this thing & I feel like SOMEBODY TOOK A SHIT ON ME!!! What the fuck is this so-called reviewer's PROBLEM?? Never in my life have I read something so full of HATE in ALL MY LIFE!! I wanted to read a PROFESSIONAL REVIEW of a movie that I was thinking of seeing---not read somebody's PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTURBANCES! Listen, if you hate the director because he looked at you the wrong way or something, DONT WATCH HIS FUCKING MOVIES because I'd rather not hear YOUR BULLSHIT FILLED WITH HATE! This is NOT A REVIEW. This is all about YOU & your FUCKED-UP ISSUES THAT YOURE PROJECTING ONTO THIS MOVIE. Now I DO wanna see it because you anger ME just as much as the movie angers YOU!

I will have to agree with #25 even tho I think he may be a littl too angry. I am a 41 year old woman with a 17 year old son. I consider myself to be a "normal" woman who enjoys whatother normal women enjoy. And I saw Jolene.

What a great, fabulous movie! I mean it. It was great!! It actually made me cry and kept me glued to the movie from the beginning. This Jolene character was not only stunning in her own skin, but each time she evolved she took you on a journey. Her natural sex appeal shined through and if my guess is rightm she will win something for this performance. I also think she is going to be ahuge star. I have never seen her before...new comer?

Having said that I must also say that Lindy does not speak for all us women. Honestly she sounds like somebody who was asaulted by an older man when she was younger and she never got treatment for it. So it had been festering all this time and now she hates Jolene because maybe Lindy sees herself in that caracter?? Maybe the director of this movie is the one who asaulted her and that's why she hates Jolene so much. I don't know. But it does sound very personal to me. I agree that Lindy did not review the movie like a professional. She sounds very angry at the director and she might need some help. Becase what she described is absolutely not the movie that me, my mother, my sister, and my niece all watched together and thoroughly enjoyed. Lindy may not want to accept this but at some point in our lives, as women, we are all Jolene.

lindy, your reviews make my week.

@26. Good Lord, dude.

@25 and 26: Anyone else think that might be the director??

Good review, looks like a pretty bad movie.

To 29: oh my god! I am not the director and I don't know the director and I'm not a robot!

I am just somebody who saw the movie with female members of my family and we all loved it! That's it! Jesus Christ!

@Larry Bravo--

Somehow, the gratuitous caps lock makes YOU look like the one with the issues...