Product: The Bachelor (1999)
Rating: 3.0
Flawed, but still good
I don't see why, when people see a film based on a really, really old Buster Keaton silent movie Seven Chances (1925), they instantly hate the up-to-date remake. It's never going to an Oscar winning movie, but lets face it, not many movies I watch (!) are.OK, my first quibble is the horrible, horrible, region 1 cover, which you can see on the main page for this DVD. Chris O'Donnell looks positively ancient on it. The region 2 cover looks so much better. Is that a grey hair I see? Also Renee Zellweger obviously doesn't have the standing in Hollywood today to have someone do her hair for her. The poodle perm is so not a good look.Look out for Brooke Shields, as an ex of Jimmy's, and also Mariah Carey, playing a very diva-ish (opera) singer. That must have been hard for her to play. She also plays an ex of Jimmy's.The best scenes in the whole movie have to be towards the end, when Jimmy's $100 million, gimme a bride newspaper advert appears. Literally thousands of brides appear and chase him, and several of them are actually guys in drag. I would not have liked to see the dry cleaning bill after all those ladies (and gents) were finished with them!The worst bits about this movie was the horrendous cliche about men being unable to commit, and giving up their 'bachelorhood' and no longer being able to sew their wild oats as the saying goes. Men are horribly portrayed in this, including an old geezer trying to give Jimmy his 15-year-old daughter as a bride. Women are also horrifically portrayed; when all the brides gathered, none of them are "classically" attractive. They were all nearly ugly, old, butch, fat, you name it, all of womankind's flaws were represented. And to make it even worse, some of them were MEN!!!Not many people will agree with my review, so bring on the bad votes guys, cos I'm ready for it. So there. It's not an Oscar winning movie. But it's good to waste an hour or two. Now go vote for my Pearl Harbor review please.