JUST WATCHED: “Obsessed” starring Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter
27 Apr
*SIGH*
Of course, like many other plans I get super excited and amped about, this one FAILED. Due to unanticipated time constraints and the lack of a nearby liquor store, instead of tipsily laughing at the absurdity that was Obsessed with my friends, I was forced to sit through the film sober. The tables were turned and the joke was on ME, for having to sit through this horribly stupid movie that wasn’t even funny enough to laugh AT.
Beyonce … why? Just why? Actually, no — shhh — shhhhh, just shhhhhhh. I don’t want to hear you speak anymore. It was fun to laugh at your inability to sound like a natural human being at first, but as the film progressed, I started to wonder if I was being punked. There is NO way somebody could be THIS bad throughout an entire film, right? And if so, they’d never release it nationally, right? WRONG.
When Beyonce doesn’t have a script in front of her, she can be either endearingly awkward or embarrassingly inarticulate. Put a script in front of her and you’d THINK it’d be like the equivalent of giving her training wheels on a two-wheeler, but noooooo; Beyonce manages to flip over upside down even WITH training wheels.
From the moment it began, Obsessed was doomed to be bad; and I was OK with that. But I wasn’t prepared for the music to be horribly cheesy and unfitting throughout the entire film or the chemistry between all of the actors to be off balance, or WORST OF ALL for Idris Elba to be sorely unattractive throughout the film! He wasn’t even FINE in this movie! My main attraction wasn’t even ATTRACTIVE! Why did I sit in this theater and waste 101 sober minutes of my life?!
If you have a big pop star in your film, you should know to have the music at LEAST be on point throughout. But NO, the music stands out in EVERY scene as inappropriate. The score AND the song choices throughout the film just DID NOT FIT. It wasn’t even good by 90s standards, which is clearly the canon that this movie aspired to. But Ali Larter is no Sharon Stone, Demi Moore or Glenn Close. Her methods of seduction aren’t even sexy; like Beyonce’s acting, they are choppy and awkward.
I have nothing else to say about this movie. It made $28.5 million this weekend and I lost $12.50 and 100 minutes of my life. I can only blame myself.
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Like I said in your last post–super yikes!
Girl, how you made it through this movie with no alchohol is like being tortured in a hotbox during the Vietnam war…they would have found me curled up in the back of the movie theater, in a corner, in the fetal position…
You are an idiot. What more can I say???
Ugh what a waste this movie was. I thought it was going to be on that Stomp the Yard level of ridiculousness but comical appeal….wrong. One stupid review of the movie said that Beyonce was the highlight of the movie because she did a saucy portrayal….if by “saucy” you mean “useless until cat fight scene,” then yeah….it was saucy.
While I am in agreement that the movie has many weaknesses, I must ask this question; what if this was the first movie of its kind? Would there be so much singing of the blues? I think that for the most part, the reviews or views expressed in this forum and in other fora that I have perused, are as badly put as the construction of the said film. As critiques on the sideline, we should endeavour to be less acidic and try harder to balance our views and put such in context. Enought said.
Bev
Well , i really have to check it out ,
seems to be kind of funny , this lil Bee is definitely NOT an actress
she just have to accept that u know ^^lol