Last night I saw Music and Lyrics starring HUGH GRANT! I had heard it was a terrible movie but I LOVED IT! Because I had heard such bad reviews, I wasn’t exactly sure if I should even go see it. I started to think about the last good movie Hugh Grant was in— Four Weddings and a Funeral. And then I thought about his first picture that gained him attention, Four Weddings and a Funeral. This isn’t looking good. Wait, there are other movies in between and even before Four Weddings, I opened up IMDB. He was fantabulous in the Bridget Jones’ movies! He sucked in Two Weeks Notice but About a Boy was pretty cute. Notting Hill was horrific but Micky Blue Eyes was decent enough. I enjoyed both Nine Months and The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain. And then we get to Four Weddings and a Funeral which I positively LOVED when it came out in 1994. Before that there was Impromptu in which he wore a fake nose and portrayed Chopin. He was also in Lair of the White Worm and he portrayed Lord Byron in Rowing Against the Wind. One of my favorites was Maurice in which he and James Wilby played sucky face during most of the movie.
Yes, Hugh Grant has done good in my book.
In Music and Lyrics, one thing I couldn’t understand was the casting of Brad Garrett (6 feet 8 inches) and Kristen Johnston (6 feet) as the leads’ best pals. It made Hugh and Drew look like little people. Munchkins.
In college, I purposely grew my hair out into that “McDonald’s arches”-thing so I could look like Hugh Grant.
Sad.
N.
He was in one of my favorite movies: The Remains of the Day
I loved his floppy hair– I think that was a good decision. I guess the question is, have you ever cut your hair into the Caesar cut to look like George Clooney?
I never saw Remains of the Day– although, it looks like a good movie and one I’m sure I’d probably enjoy. Perhaps one day…
Sorry Donna, have to disagree…
Didn’t like Four Weddings… Grant’s character cheats on his girlfriend with Andie MacDowell, simultaneously cuckolding her husband if memory serves me correctly. The moral of the story is that marriage is bad to irrelevant, insignificant to child-rearing, and that infidelity, illegitimacy, and dishonesty are worries for the “little people”. Grant’s character deserves more than a punch in the face at the end, and “Carrie” is a whore.
There, I said it. But am I wrong?
Ian- You are absolutely correct. Even at the time the moral of the movie disgusted me yet– I still found it so charming. Horrible, I know. But I do agree with you, the message sucked and Carrie was a huge whore.