ask the dust
This one was fairly unknown as far as i’m concerned. i had never heard of it until i was listening to KQRS and they mentioned the top ten nude scenes of the year. number one was salma hayek in ask the dust. this had me intrigued.
the film itself isn’t all that bad. i mean it doesn’t have much going for it and doesn’t impress, but it’s not horrible. it’s based on a book so i guess the story should be at least decent. colin farrell and hayek are never very good actors so i wasn’t disappointed. and tom cruise produced it so how could it be terrible?
ok. i’m kidding. it’s a shitty movie. the story is lofty and doesn’t translate to film. i hear good things about the book and i may look into it, but the movie itself doesn’t have any meat to it. i don’t feel a connection with either character and things are too painfully predictable to stay focused on it.
the only bright point is about a half hour in when hayek takes a skinny-dip in the ocean. she’s incredibly gorgeous and hides nothing. fantastic. the rest of the film reaks of forced emotion and over-dramatization.
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