No one in this movie looks like the age of the character they are playing except maybe Anne Hathaway, who everyone acts like is this decrepit crone. I think it’s supposed to be shocking that a twentysomething pop star falls for a beautiful art dealer who hangs out backstage at Coachella because she is 40 years old. But… it didn’t seem that wild to me (especially since the lead actor looks more like 30 than 25).
I will say, the two leads do have a lot of chemistry. They kiss a lot.
Never got near this movie when it came out because its reputation was so rancid and because, well, what does a teenager want with a poorly-reviewed, weird-looking biopic about Anthony Hopkins promoting alternative medicines while giving Matthew Broderick colonics? (This film surely contains more enemas than any other mainstream American movie in history. It probably contains more enemas than every other American movie released in the entirety of the 1990s put together!)
So I kind of understand the bad reviews.…
In the first 30 years of his existence, Rocket Raccoon appeared in a total of ten Marvel comics. Not ten different storylines, not ten different Rocket Raccoon series; ten individual issues period, mostly guest spots in other characters’ books. His profile increased somewhat in the mid-2000s when he became a member of the relaunched Guardians of the Galaxy, but not much. As Marvel properties go, to call him a D-lister might have been giving him to much credit. He had…
