The First Wives Club

I’ve watched this before — at the time it was released, I think? Probably on VHS. But I’m rewatching it now because of:

Heh heh, they had no idea that the comedically plumped lips would seem modest thirty years later.

Heh he.

Goldie Hawn really is fantastic. I’d forgotten. So funny.

This movie is super duper late 80s. Which is weird for a mid-90s movie. I like it.

The director is… the director from Police Academy.

The writer has done only one thing. But several times. (But perhaps those other instances are adaptation credits… Oh! This is based on a book. Never mind.)

Scenes like this just make me nostalgic… they actually have a set decorator — they put up some wallpaper! Nowadays this would all be greenscreen, and of course it wouldn’t be lit like this, but instead would just be a low contrast field of greyness.

I miss movies.

Heh heh.

This really is a screwball comedy once it gets going. It’s very funny indeed.

Ooo… New York…

But of course, this isn’t the 30s, so you can’t just do a screwball comedy — you’ve got to have a third act when things get serious, and you get that dreaded character development.