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If Notting Hill annoyed you as being bogus, stay away from this one.
Phonus bolognus on the half-shell.
This had to be one of the worst films ever.
When Kate shows up and Jed is with a bunch of guys and they all start clapping...
so Hollywood.
Another bad scene was when Kate was running her hands over the pavement it appeared that she was examining the texture of the pavement.
Andie's acting is so bad in this film - I could not connect with them or feel there love for each other.
The other 2 women however were very good and overshadowed Andie.
Anyway this was such a campy movie.
I usually like these type of films but I just couldn't get into this film.
Too many unlikely situations and again Andie's acting didn't help the film.
Also, she is all gums.
Lancome must put her makeup on with a putty knife because she looks glamorous in the commericals.
This starts off bad, what with the three women acting like simpering junior high school wussies sitting around giggling with their gin, endless cigarettes and a caramel chocolate treat for the one who tells the best 'man' story, and then it gets worse -=- spoiler alert =-= what with Andie's character falling for the young organ player who used to be her student when he was 14 (she's the headmistress of an English school, believe it or not), only to have him destroyed thanks to her bitch-from-hell 'girlfriend' .
and then from there, it's basically unwatchable claptrap: she forgives her 'friend' and has the organ player's love child and the 3 women end up as they started, drinking more gin and smoking more cigarettes blah blah blah.
Andie's character throws the caramel chocolates out in the street, in a pathetic attempt to symbolize growth.
Have mercy.
This was awful.
Andie Macdowell is a terrible actress.
So wooden she makes a rocking horse look like it could do a better job.
But then remember that turn in Four Weddings, equally as excruciating.
Another film that portrays England as full of Chocolate box cottages, and village greens.
I mean that school, how many schools apart from maybe Hogwarts look like that?
The twee police station looked like the set from Heartbeat ( a nauseating British series set in the 60s).
This film just couldn't make its mind up what it wanted to be- a comedy or a serious examination of the undercurrents in women's friendships.
If it had stuck to the former then the graveyard sex scenes and the highly stupid storming of the wedding might just have worked( i say just).
But those scenes just didn't work with the tragedy in the second half.
I also find it implausible that Kate would ever speak to Molly again after her terrible behaviour.
A final note- what is a decent actress like Staunton doing in this pile of poo?
Not to mention Anna Chancellor.
Macdowell should stick to advertising wrinkle cream.
Caught this on IFC yesterday, and can't believe the positive reviews!
Am I the only one who thought these "ladies" were anything but?
Kate tells Jed she could get fired because she's supposed to be a pillar of the community, but puts out for him!
Then they suddenly decide they're in love?
And she's SO devastated over his death, she doesn't go to his funeral, much less, tell his family the "good news!"
By the way, how did an American get to be the headmistress of a very proper British school?
Janine should have been kicked off the force for her inexcusable abuse of power, but nothing happens!
And she winds up boffing a con she brought in for questioning!
And the less said about Molly, the better!
As for the guilt Janine and Molly feel over Jed, please!
It's the punk's own damn fault he got turned into roadkill!
Where's the guilt over poor Gerald, who gets puked on?
If only I could do the same to the bozos behind this "movie!"
I thought it was a New-York located movie: wrong!
It's a little British countryside setting.
I thought it was a comedy: wrong!
It's a drama....
Well, up to the last third, because after the story becomes totally "abracadabrantesque", the symbolic word for a French presidential mandate.
It means, close to nonsense even it the motives would like to bring a sincere feeling.
What Do I have left?
Maybe, a good duo of actress: Yes, I know, they are 3 friends, but the redhead policewoman is a bit invisible for me.
The tall doctoress surprises by her punch, and McDowell delivers a fine acting as usual, all in delicate, soft and almost mute attitude.
This gentleness puzzles me, because as other fine artists or directors, the same pattern is repeating over and over.
In her case, it's like, whatever the movie, it's always the same character defined by her feelings, her values, who lives infinite different stories.
I still don't know how to set the limit (or the fusion) between the artists and the works.
Another positive side of this movie is its feminine touch & the interesting different points of view.
The women have each their own way of living, even if they are all single.
It brings a lot of tolerance and learning to witness how a same and unique reality can be perceived in as many ways as people.
Finally, the movie is quite viewable, but the great final cuts the desire of a next vision.
Was this meant to be a comedy or a serious drama?
This film starts with a light-hearted banter between three women.
Fine.
It moves into a conflict between the women when one of them meets a man.
Fine.
There are a few antics between them.
Fine.
But when the plot thickens and finally becomes black I started to wonder whether I had misinterpreted the first part of the movie.
It continues in this vein for a while until, in the end, it tries to go back to the original light-hearted banter.
But by now it's too late.
It's hard to see why these women would still be talking to one another and the finale is unconvincing.
Truly a lesson (for British filmmakers anyway) of how not to make films.
Difficult to see how the producers ever convinced themselves this film would work.
And the box office proved it to be a real flop, because I'd never heard of this film until this weekend (four years after its release).
Andie McDowell is beautiful as the 40-ish woman whose late start at a serious relationship leads her to a considerably younger man and a subsequenet falling-out with 2 long-time best girldfriends.
Seeing a gigolo/gold-digger in the sincere young man, the "girl-friends", dead-set on terminating this "silly relationship", go over and beyond the call of duty in "helping out" their friend (who obviously is blinded by this gigolo's tricky game."
A short succession of situations is absolutely ridiculous.
Far fetched no longer covers it.
Without these unbelievable scenes, there may have been hope for a sweet love story.
Instead, all the viewer is left with is an involuntary shaking of head -- these things just don't happen!
Without giving away cliff-hanger details, I warn the viewer of having high expectations for this film;
most (like me) will be very disappointed.
On a scale of 1 to 10, this one ranks a weak 4 with me.
There is much better material out there.
This one isn't worth your time.
SPOILER: The young lover, Jed, is kicked out by the spinster, Kate (Andie McDowell), because she wrongly believes that Jed is having an affair with one of her two catty girlfriends.
Kate thought she caught them en flagrante delicto.
Kate throws Jed's shoes out the door.
Jed reluctantly leaves, and then sits in the middle of the road to put his shoes on.
Then he gets run over ("Crushed", one of the meaning of the title) by a truck.
And dies.
"And then he gets run over by a truck."
Can you imagine a screenwriter actually submitting a script with this plot element?
Up to then, its a comedy that intends to be frothy, but lacks any real fizz.
Everybody but Jed is just annoying.
And then they kill Jed, and everybody's sad, until the end where the gals learn to love one another and be supportive, instead of destructive.
I give it 2 ugh's.
The worst thing about Crush is not that it's acted pretty bad, or that the plot is virtually non-existent, and it's not even that bad that the camerawork could have been better.
No, the worst part of this movie is that it has a few absolutely brilliant moments that keep you hoping that there are more to come.
But in the end, it's too little, too late.

If Notting Hill annoyed you as being bogus, stay away from this one.

Phonus bolognus on the half-shell.

This had to be one of the worst films ever.

When Kate shows up and Jed is with a bunch of guys and they all start clapping...

so Hollywood.

Another bad scene was when Kate was running her hands over the pavement it appeared that she was examining the texture of the pavement.

Andie's acting is so bad in this film - I could not connect with them or feel there love for each other.

The other 2 women however were very good and overshadowed Andie.

Anyway this was such a campy movie.

I usually like these type of films but I just couldn't get into this film.

Too many unlikely situations and again Andie's acting didn't help the film.

Also, she is all gums.

Lancome must put her makeup on with a putty knife because she looks glamorous in the commericals.

This starts off bad, what with the three women acting like simpering junior high school wussies sitting around giggling with their gin, endless cigarettes and a caramel chocolate treat for the one who tells the best 'man' story, and then it gets worse -=- spoiler alert =-= what with Andie's character falling for the young organ player who used to be her student when he was 14 (she's the headmistress of an English school, believe it or not), only to have him destroyed thanks to her bitch-from-hell 'girlfriend' .

and then from there, it's basically unwatchable claptrap: she forgives her 'friend' and has the organ player's love child and the 3 women end up as they started, drinking more gin and smoking more cigarettes blah blah blah.

Andie's character throws the caramel chocolates out in the street, in a pathetic attempt to symbolize growth.

Have mercy.

This was awful.

Andie Macdowell is a terrible actress.

So wooden she makes a rocking horse look like it could do a better job.

But then remember that turn in Four Weddings, equally as excruciating.

Another film that portrays England as full of Chocolate box cottages, and village greens.

I mean that school, how many schools apart from maybe Hogwarts look like that?

The twee police station looked like the set from Heartbeat ( a nauseating British series set in the 60s).

This film just couldn't make its mind up what it wanted to be- a comedy or a serious examination of the undercurrents in women's friendships.

If it had stuck to the former then the graveyard sex scenes and the highly stupid storming of the wedding might just have worked( i say just).

But those scenes just didn't work with the tragedy in the second half.

I also find it implausible that Kate would ever speak to Molly again after her terrible behaviour.

A final note- what is a decent actress like Staunton doing in this pile of poo?

Not to mention Anna Chancellor.

Macdowell should stick to advertising wrinkle cream.

Caught this on IFC yesterday, and can't believe the positive reviews!

Am I the only one who thought these "ladies" were anything but?

Kate tells Jed she could get fired because she's supposed to be a pillar of the community, but puts out for him!

Then they suddenly decide they're in love?

And she's SO devastated over his death, she doesn't go to his funeral, much less, tell his family the "good news!"

By the way, how did an American get to be the headmistress of a very proper British school?

Janine should have been kicked off the force for her inexcusable abuse of power, but nothing happens!

And she winds up boffing a con she brought in for questioning!

And the less said about Molly, the better!

As for the guilt Janine and Molly feel over Jed, please!

It's the punk's own damn fault he got turned into roadkill!

Where's the guilt over poor Gerald, who gets puked on?

If only I could do the same to the bozos behind this "movie!"

I thought it was a New-York located movie: wrong!

It's a little British countryside setting.

I thought it was a comedy: wrong!

It's a drama....

Well, up to the last third, because after the story becomes totally "abracadabrantesque", the symbolic word for a French presidential mandate.

It means, close to nonsense even it the motives would like to bring a sincere feeling.

What Do I have left?

Maybe, a good duo of actress: Yes, I know, they are 3 friends, but the redhead policewoman is a bit invisible for me.

The tall doctoress surprises by her punch, and McDowell delivers a fine acting as usual, all in delicate, soft and almost mute attitude.

This gentleness puzzles me, because as other fine artists or directors, the same pattern is repeating over and over.

In her case, it's like, whatever the movie, it's always the same character defined by her feelings, her values, who lives infinite different stories.

I still don't know how to set the limit (or the fusion) between the artists and the works.

Another positive side of this movie is its feminine touch & the interesting different points of view.

The women have each their own way of living, even if they are all single.

It brings a lot of tolerance and learning to witness how a same and unique reality can be perceived in as many ways as people.

Finally, the movie is quite viewable, but the great final cuts the desire of a next vision.

Was this meant to be a comedy or a serious drama?

This film starts with a light-hearted banter between three women.

Fine.

It moves into a conflict between the women when one of them meets a man.

Fine.

There are a few antics between them.

Fine.

But when the plot thickens and finally becomes black I started to wonder whether I had misinterpreted the first part of the movie.

It continues in this vein for a while until, in the end, it tries to go back to the original light-hearted banter.

But by now it's too late.

It's hard to see why these women would still be talking to one another and the finale is unconvincing.

Truly a lesson (for British filmmakers anyway) of how not to make films.

Difficult to see how the producers ever convinced themselves this film would work.

And the box office proved it to be a real flop, because I'd never heard of this film until this weekend (four years after its release).

Andie McDowell is beautiful as the 40-ish woman whose late start at a serious relationship leads her to a considerably younger man and a subsequenet falling-out with 2 long-time best girldfriends.

Seeing a gigolo/gold-digger in the sincere young man, the "girl-friends", dead-set on terminating this "silly relationship", go over and beyond the call of duty in "helping out" their friend (who obviously is blinded by this gigolo's tricky game."

A short succession of situations is absolutely ridiculous.

Far fetched no longer covers it.

Without these unbelievable scenes, there may have been hope for a sweet love story.

Instead, all the viewer is left with is an involuntary shaking of head -- these things just don't happen!

Without giving away cliff-hanger details, I warn the viewer of having high expectations for this film;

most (like me) will be very disappointed.

On a scale of 1 to 10, this one ranks a weak 4 with me.

There is much better material out there.

This one isn't worth your time.

SPOILER: The young lover, Jed, is kicked out by the spinster, Kate (Andie McDowell), because she wrongly believes that Jed is having an affair with one of her two catty girlfriends.

Kate thought she caught them en flagrante delicto.

Kate throws Jed's shoes out the door.

Jed reluctantly leaves, and then sits in the middle of the road to put his shoes on.

Then he gets run over ("Crushed", one of the meaning of the title) by a truck.

And dies.

"And then he gets run over by a truck."

Can you imagine a screenwriter actually submitting a script with this plot element?

Up to then, its a comedy that intends to be frothy, but lacks any real fizz.

Everybody but Jed is just annoying.

And then they kill Jed, and everybody's sad, until the end where the gals learn to love one another and be supportive, instead of destructive.

I give it 2 ugh's.

The worst thing about Crush is not that it's acted pretty bad, or that the plot is virtually non-existent, and it's not even that bad that the camerawork could have been better.

No, the worst part of this movie is that it has a few absolutely brilliant moments that keep you hoping that there are more to come.

But in the end, it's too little, too late.