Waitress (Shelly, 2007)

[madali]

Waitress (Shelly, 2007)
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Movies need to be approached in the right mood. You can either watch what’s on or you match the movie that you want to watch with your mood. I can only enjoy a zombie horror movie, if I am in the mood for a zombie horror movie. If I am in tired mood, a slow, intelligent movie might get on my nerves.

I’m saying this because you can enjoy “Waitress” much more if you know what to expect and if it’s in your line with your mood. This is a girl movie, and there is no way anyone can deny that, it is written, directed, and acted by Adrienne Shelly. But just because it is a girl movie does not mean it is annoyingly girly. I’m happy to say there is no male-bashing. Yes, there is the bad husband, but even the bad husband is written very well. The husband is not really macho and apathetic, he is neurotic, clingy, and constantly needs reassuring.

Oh yeah, I talked about the husband but forgot to tell you the plot. Here it is in as little words as possible, waiter is in unhappy marriage, is pregnant, has an affair with a cute doctor, and is sad. That’s it.

Why watch it if you are not into these kinds of movies? Well, it is cute! While I am extremely manly and wrestle bears and open beer bottles with my eyes, I still found the movie adorable, and put me in a good mood. But I was in the correct mood to be begun with. If it was the wrong day and the wrong mindset, I probably wouldn’t have liked it as much.

3/5

[madali]

And for those of you who are already in love with pies because of "Pushing Daises", then this will just make you hungry more.

[X.]

One day the film's director complained about her noisy neighbor.

He got pissed off, and decided to teach her a lesson: he murdered her.

True story.

[kaytee]

I have this on my to be watched list, but I can never get myself into that mood.

[fizz]

Just finished watching this a couple of days ago.

The movie is improbable and dreamy, but what it does have is a heart. A a nice big one. Films about food are almost always winners (Like water for Chocolate, Chocolat, Women on top etc), and Waitress falls into the same categorization. What it does better than last years flimsy No Reservations is have us hooked onto the desires and longings of its engaging lead Keri Russell. What I liked most of all, and anyone who has seen this film will most likely agree, is the ingenious way the title character would improvise and make pies in her mind for every moment - whether that moment was dour, sad, happy, ecstatic, it didn't matter, she would come up with something that was appropriate for the occasion (at least in her mind, but sometimes on plate as well). A big draw for me was seeing Nathan Fillion on screen again, but he seemed a little too out of place as the urbanite doctor in a town of mostly hicks. While the change of character in the third act is somewhat in tangents to the overall tone of the film (the movie struggles between being a comedy or a drama) the endearing nature of the film wins you over enough for you not to really complain.

Its a shame about the director, her death, unjust and untimely as it was, has forever robbed us of the opportunity to see anything more from her ever again. This is her legacy.

Rating: 3.5/5

[fizz]

Some of those great pie's (from imdb, of course):

- I hate my husband pie: Take bittersweet chocolate and don't sweeten it. You make it into a pudding and drown it in caramel
 - Earl murders me because I'm having an affair pie: Smash blackberries and raspberries into a chocolate crust
 - I Can't Have No Affair Because It's Wrong And I Don't Want Earl To Kill Me Pie: Vanilla custard with banana.
 - Pregnant Miserable Self Pitying Loser Pie: Lumpy oatmeal with fruitcake mashed in. Flambé of course.

[madali]

The pies really looked gorgeous, and I'm not even a food fanatic.

[shariqq]

eh, Someone called?

Needs watching, this one...