Very Entertaining -- Great funny one-liners

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2000)

I probably wouldn't have gone to see this movie if I hadn't gotten an e-mail (along with all 22,000 other PG&E employees) from Gordon Smith, our beloved (ha!) CEO. I couldn't believe what I was reading. PG&E should have just passed on commenting on this movie...after all, the settlement's a done deal. But Smith had to remind us (as if we don't have a brain in our collective heads) that it 'primarily a vehicle for entertainment'. He goes on to make some extremely lame statements about how PG&E didn't move "as quickly as it should have to rectify the problem" but acted in good faith...yada yada yada. Jeez, cut your losses Gordie! Don't make it worse with such lame excuses!
That e-mail piqued my interest in the movie. Although rather formulaic and featuring a few too many cardboard characters and scenes, EB is a very enjoyable movie. There are some hilarious one-liners, particularly toward the end of the movie. Unlike some others, I didn't feel the movie was overlong or slowly paced. However, I would have liked to have seen more on the legal issues and less on how poor EB is struggling to keep her personal life together. As it was, the movie completely skips the entire settlement process. In one scene, Roberts and Finney are collectly signatures from plaintiffs to pursue a settlement and in the next, she's telling a woman that the court has awarded her family $5 million.
All in all though, definitely worth seeing.
Oh, and for those of you who want to flame me for working for the big bad oppressive evil corporate empire, save your breath. PG&E is a massive corporation and I work very far from Hinkley (which, ironically, isn't even in the PG&E service area, though Kettleman Hills is). I currently work in the Vegetation Management Dept. (tree trimming and fire prevention mostly) but used to work in Energy Efficiency (trying to conserve energy and save people money). So I don't think of myself as a captalist running dog lackey, or even as a bad guy...but then, neither did Hitler. All I can say is that I probably enjoyed seeing them stick to PG&E more than you did.