Book Club

Shot of Mary Steenburgen in the garden reading her smut book and it cuts to some gardening tool “moist meter” revving over and I just finished violently dry heaving long enough to type this out.

I admittedly haven't seen this, but since just reading the plot summary gave me cancer, I feel justified in rating it.

I work at the largest theatre in my city. Don't underestimate the market of elderly women, folks. There's tons of them and they hate dumb comedies unless women their age are in them, at which point they will sell out your goddamn megaplexes. Droves of these people. Droves. Elderly ladies. A couple husbands roped in. One suspiciously eager husband. Christ, they don't stop coming. Another showtime of Book Club is coming up? Oh fuck, yep, here they come, like they all took a fucking shuttle bus.

After seeing First Wives Club, Pom Poms, and now this, I've realized Diane-Keaton-Leads-an-Ensemble-Cast-of-Older-Ladies-who-refuse-to-let-their-age-define-them is one of my favorite genres, regardless of the actual content of the film.

Not Good It reminds of "The Golden Girls Read A Sex Book" ....Only the Golden Girls were actually funny .....Too bad I can't say the same for this film

It would be unfair of me to grade this as I see it (latter day sex and the city for the senior crowd) because I'm almost certain that its specific target audience (my mother & others like her) would enjoy this. If fantasies for this crowd were so common that even I had somehow wound up finding the predictability tiresome I might not be so generous. These filmmakers had a mission and, as far as I can tell, seemed to have accomplished it.

Awful save for about 15 minutes where they weren't trying to be funny. Silly low brow humor with one only good joke in the whole thing--though the 95% older women in the theater laughed throughout, so I guess they mined the target audience pretty well.

This is what it is.

Compared to the rest of the audience in a packed theatre on a hot summer day, I was pretty young and I probably shouldn't have laughed as much as I did - Sorry, but I did. This is no different than any other chick-flick, where you know the end 5 minutes in, there's a hot guy (in this case a middle-aged man), cheesy lines and a happy ending. Off course I liked it. *Recommendable

Dream team of actors of a certain age is the main draw of this placid but enjoyable 'chick flick'; the stars work so well together that you wish for a sharper script as a better showcase for them, (alone or together), though Bergen's wonderfully droll performance elevates every scene she is in. Fun cameos from Dreyfuss and Shawn, but this film belongs to the women. Perhaps surprisingly (relievedly?) the link to FIFTY SHADES OF GREY is tenuous at best, and never really explored.

I was ready to hate this but it had a pretty surprising Werner Herzog joke in the first five minutes.

This was a cute movie, I love Diane Keaton

Nothing ground-breaking here. Some chuckles. What is enjoyable about this film is the chance to see an ensemble of seasoned, mature actors & actresses do their thing. Everyone over 65 isn't crocheting an afghan while passing out sage advice over their bifocals to the main character and it's time for Hollywood to reflect that. Someday - soon I hope - we'll see this sort of cast in an Oscar-worthy film.

honestly it could be a lot worse

Book Club is a mediocre movie at best, but it does have some genuine laughs and a few heartfelt moments. The cast is good, and honestly the biggest draw for a film of this genre. Fonda's character is forgettable, while Keaton's seems to get the most focus. Some of Holderman's choices, such as the opening narration and the closing speech, were poor and tired. I'm a sucker for RomComs, and while this film is moderately enjoyable, my attention did wander at times.

This movie is targeted at a particular audience, and I'm not it.

Kendini iyi hisset filmi. 60 yaş üstü işini başını almış zengin 4 kadın, özel yaşamları pek mutsuz. Her birinin ayrı sorunları olan 4 kadın, kitap klubünde bula bula Grinin Elli Tonu nu okumaya başlar. Romantik komedi başlar. Her biri öğretmen olan 8 usta oyuncu + Alicia Silverstone oynatan bir film ile karşı karşıyayız. Film birşey ifade etmese de televizyonda izlenir. I'd do Anything For Love - Meat Loaf candır gerisi heyecandır.

This was a fun movie as long as you didn't take it too seriously. It was good laugh and a good time.

I DO enjoy a good Rom-Com, sadly this is NOT a good Rom-Com, it's a decidedly average, meandering one which had plenty of acting talent on show and plenty of plot potential but never really went anywhere, meanding around with the occasional humorous moment. It didn't have had to be 'hard bondage' blatent but without *anything* at all why not be inspired by any number of other books, except to attract people to watch this movie... or maybe that was the intent and they got scared!

There was too little good humor and many situations felt forced. This movie was sometimes painful to watch. It was somewhat nostalgic to see a few old favorites, but the novelty wore off quickly and the pitiful material leaves you rather unsatisfied.

Exactly how I believe white privileged women from that generation talk about sex (as something really naughty and funny...). Toothless but quite alright.