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View From the Top
My complete disdain for Gwyneth Paltrow as an actress has been confirmed with a silly and pointless comedy from 2003 called View from the Top which even Paltrow appears to be embarrassed to be part of.
She plays Donna, the small town daughter of trailer trash who wants to make something out of her life and believes the way to do it is to become a flight attendant, but it's not an easy road, not to mention how Donna's career ambition continually interferes with her romance with a hunk named Ted (Mark Ruffalo).
The inexperience of screenwriter Eric Wald shines through in every frame of this film which is rich with cliched characters and plotting that has been ripped off from hundreds of films of the past. We watch Donna begin her career with a third rate airline that only flies drunk to Vegas and then gets separated from her bestie (the late Kelly Preston) while she and other bestie Christine (Christina Applegate) attend an elite flight training school run by a former flight attendant (Candice bergen) and a cross-eyed instructor (Mike Meyers) who has never gotten over the fact thiat his vision issues have kept him from getting his wings.
Director Bruno Barreto provides sluggish direction though he does manages to get sme interesting folks to popop in for cameos like Rob Lowe,Stacey Dash, Joshia Malina (in a role that seems to have been written for Sean Hayes), Jon Polito, and Marc Blucas, but if the truth be told, this movie has all the substance of a Frankie and Annette beach movie but isn't nearly as entertaining. Ruffalo is the only one who comes out of this one with his dignity intact.
My complete disdain for Gwyneth Paltrow as an actress has been confirmed with a silly and pointless comedy from 2003 called View from the Top which even Paltrow appears to be embarrassed to be part of.
She plays Donna, the small town daughter of trailer trash who wants to make something out of her life and believes the way to do it is to become a flight attendant, but it's not an easy road, not to mention how Donna's career ambition continually interferes with her romance with a hunk named Ted (Mark Ruffalo).
The inexperience of screenwriter Eric Wald shines through in every frame of this film which is rich with cliched characters and plotting that has been ripped off from hundreds of films of the past. We watch Donna begin her career with a third rate airline that only flies drunk to Vegas and then gets separated from her bestie (the late Kelly Preston) while she and other bestie Christine (Christina Applegate) attend an elite flight training school run by a former flight attendant (Candice bergen) and a cross-eyed instructor (Mike Meyers) who has never gotten over the fact thiat his vision issues have kept him from getting his wings.
Director Bruno Barreto provides sluggish direction though he does manages to get sme interesting folks to popop in for cameos like Rob Lowe,Stacey Dash, Joshia Malina (in a role that seems to have been written for Sean Hayes), Jon Polito, and Marc Blucas, but if the truth be told, this movie has all the substance of a Frankie and Annette beach movie but isn't nearly as entertaining. Ruffalo is the only one who comes out of this one with his dignity intact.