response 100 of 146:

Nov 23 12:26 UTC 1998

I like Zero Effect, too, but I thought Stiller and Pullman were
both miscast.  I don't know if it's been noticed or remarked on
that the "something" about Mary in There's Something About Mary
is that she is an incredibly good person who looks like Cameron
Diaz.  I mean, a really, really nice young woman, whose niceness
positively radiates like a beacon from a lighthouse.  Her goodness
elevates all the men smitten with her -- ie, literally all the men
in the movie -- at least a notch or two.  It's a sweetly Capraesque
kind of movie, as if a Capra had made a movie when he was in his
teenage gross-out phase.  It's the people-are-basically-good message
that makes the movie so popular, not merely the gross-out stuff.