In a sentence, this movie is more enjoyable and seemingly better because everything else in the theaters this Thanksgiving is so dire, emotionally wrenching, violent and/or sci-fi. This is a chic film, and not even a good one. One reviewer said it best, something to the effect that individual scenes work better than the whole movie put together.
Of course, given that it is essentially a rom-com, perhaps I am expecting too much. Which is a shame because really there was great potential to clean it up and go somewhere with this movie. The story is inane, too many subplots that go nowhere, Beatty as Howard Hughes doesn't hold a candle to Leonardo DiCaprio's brilliant portrayal, all the cameos are only distracting, and ultimately the ending is less than satisfying.
I went on Sunday, at 1:00, Thanksgiving weekend, and the theater was empty. Clearly the word is out that this movie isn't worth the money to attend. I concur.
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