It succeeds because Roberts brings a steely elegance and a melancholy core to Tess: When she calls Danny a "liar" and a "thief," the words sting.
If that dinner scene between her and Clooney, filmed with a similar sense of sexual tension Soderbergh brought to Out of Sight, doesn't work, then the whole movie doesn't work. More than the money, she's the whole reason for the heist. But it's easy to forget how much the first movie relies on Roberts, playing ex-wife Tess to George Clooney's ex-con Danny Ocean, to sell the central premise and provide a dollop of pathos to the caper narrative. Steven Soderbergh's endearingly glitzy, winningly self-referential Ocean's trilogy cultivates a boys'-club mentality, selling the viewer on a fantasy of male friendship defined by designer suits, sarcastic quips, and elaborate schemes. In his review of the film, Roger Ebert wrote, "I have a feeling that Mystic Pizza may someday become known for the movie stars it showcased back before they became stars." He couldn't have been more right: It was all there in Roberts' captivating presence and cheek-to-cheek smile, comforting and warm as a pizza pie. Maybe it's all of the above, since she makes Daisy feel like every ballbuster you wished you were friends with. It could be when she beats the preps at pool, tells off her date, or pours a barrel of fish into his Porsche. As the effervescent, outspoken Daisy, it's hard to pinpoint exactly where Roberts became America's sweetheart. Robot.Not every actor comes by a star-making role as they're launching their career, but Roberts' breakout role in Mystic Pizza is proof that she was always destined to be an A-lister She was among the unknowns (also including Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor) who led this coming-of-age film about three teenage girls working at a Connecticut pizzeria and learning to navigate class, love, and sex.
Go to Scribd for full documentation of the complaints, and then bingewatch Mr. As the FCC itself points out in one response (yes, they do respond), “the FCC cannot restrict non-broadcast (cable) programming.” We’re not too worried these citations will mean less sex in Season 2. We’re pretty sure he meant “I was disgusted,” but we decided to leave it as is. The dialog afterwards was just as bad as if the CTO would have said ’Take a shower and clean up the shit’ I was disgusting.
We were quite shocked with the latest episode showing the temp CTO butt F’ing a subordinate employee.
Robot should be on TV with all the graphic drug scenes and gay sex. My family does not think that the TV show Mr. One viewer called the scene, “disgusting, inflammatory, and just plain filthy,” yet had no comments about the graphic heterosexual love scenes on the show. The heat of passion? Dear lord, get us some smelling salts and a fainting chair.
(But bare bottoms were showing.) They were shown in the heat of passion.” We will not be watching.”Īnd there’s this: “Both men could be seen clearly, with only their groin areas omitted. Others seems to think the FCC cares about USA’s ratings: “The USA Network deeply offended me and my family with this explicit showing of gay male sodomy. My 11 year old son was watching this show.” Blatant drug use, nudity, homosexual acts, bondage, not mention criminal hacking!”įunny how you kept going back to the show-three episodes!-before you summoned enough outrage to notify the FCC.Īnother person wrote, “This episode showed 2 men having sex. “If this was a movie it would be rated R or worse. “The show looked interesting so we watched parts of three episodes,” said a viewer in Carpinteria, California.