The Kids Are All Right

Lesbians are real people too (?)...

Nominated for:

Best Supporting Actor - Mark Ruffalo
Best Actress - Annette Bening
Original Screenplay - Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
Best Picture

I'm really not sure where to start with this garbled piece of horse vomit. For a movie about a lesbian couple, there sure is a lot of explicit hetero sex scenes. Although, is it about a lesbian couple? Because the title seems to imply that the two kids are the focus of the film - but then, a good chunk of the movie is spent watching Mark Ruffalo having sex, and Annette Bening is nominated for her "lead role". It's like this movie had so much to say, the writers just packed all the "lessons" into a giant circus cannon and shot it out all over the celluloid. I found a review that hit the nail on the head by describing this movie as "overly pleased with its own progressiveness". Yup, that's pretty much it.

There's a whole lot more I can rant about this movie, but what's the point? In six months, no one's going to remember this film even exists. Thanks, Hollywood, for reminding us that lesbians can have marital problems too, just like real couples! I'm not even going to start on how infuriating it is that gay men get Brokeback Mountain and Milk, and lesbians get this shit pile.

Eli

On the Eli scale, this movie gets a 1 for innovation, 2 for emotion, and 2 for cohesive. And that's being generous.