I am currently "forcing" myself to watch films in the IMDB Top 250 that I haven't watched.. by forcing I mean I have long since seen all the easily-accessible, instantly entertaining films, and now I'm watching the slow, difficult films that border on being boring for the first 20 minutes until you get in to the characters.

Well, I've watched two such films so far, and I certainly haven't been disappointed. Two very good (if sad) films:

Grave of the Fireflies 9/10 (one of the few Ghibli films I never got round to watching, tried to twice but wasn't in the right mood, worth persevering)

Life is Beautiful 7/10

Bridesmaids

Apart from a couple of sequences (food poisoning and the flight to Vegas) I thought this was a very dull and disappointing movie. The preview looked good but there are so many long dull bits and a load of unsympathetic characters. Even my other half - who thought it was OK - started wondering how long the film had left to go....not a good sign.

3 out of 10.

I tried watching it, it's basically stuff women find outrageous that blokes have seen a million times before. It's a tipping point for the mainstream to my mind and so it's overrated because female characters are often one-note, unfortunately.

I watched at the weekend as well. Yeah, the odd funny bit but certainly not in the same league as The Hangover for example (not even one of the squeals).

It's the female version of The Hangover

No it's not.
It's not in the same league.
It's better.