I Don't Know How She Does It

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

A more apt question would be I Don't Know WHY She Does It. Sarah Jessica Parker has a knack for being in extraordinarily mundane middle of the road nothing films lately. This is another. This film is so light it's amazing they managed to catch it to exhibit in cinemas before it floated out of the earths atmosphere. It's really kind of offensive too. Hardly a role model for females in the work place OR mothers. And it makes terrible cases for both.

The film did afford me other opportunities. The sound in my cinema was playing up, the low frequencies were causing cracking from the front speakers. When I informed the staff they were quick to recify this, discovering a faulty cable as the culprit. Unfortunately all the happened only 2 minutes into the film. Then they restarted it with proper sound.

The neat thing about digital projections is that there is no chance if them burning film in from of the projector bulb, so when they stop the film the image remains on screen. It was a rather flattering shot of Christina Hendricks and you could really see the spherical lens distortions in the bokeh.

A surprising amount of the film was shot in very low light. A lot of late night scenes and candle lit restaurant meetings. There was some unusual grain that was particularly noticeable on the darker sides of skin tones. I was thinking that perhaps that could be from some possible digital smoothing of actors skin, but I think it's more than likely just a fast speed film stock. Digital projection of 35mm film elements really allow you to see the grain without wondering if it's just a bad film print.

Stock footage. Sure all these romantic comedy films use stock establishing shots and many don't match up very well in tone. But there were some real travesties here. If you're going to buy some Getty Images for film, please make sure the footage is not interlaced. REALLY! It happened. And that's not even the worst bit. Aspect ratios. How hard is it to see that your footage is squished? I cannot abide this. Sloppy.

That sums up the film. Sloppy. As you can see I did everything to avoid having to actually notice what was going on in the film. Don't bother with this one.