So Renee Zellweger's new movie, 'New In Town' is actually set in New Ulm, which is about a half hour away from Mankato. Ironically, it didn't occur to Hollywood to actually film any of it in New Ulm, but they did it anyway. There's a piece in the Free Press today denouncing it as yet another tiresome portrayal of Minnesota as nothing more than a hot-dish eating, ice fishing, Sven and Ole Joke.
Interested in this, I watched the trailer to see for myself- and lo and behold, the typical regional cliches are there. Ice fishing, funny accents, hot dish, etc. But at the same time, we have to stop and consider: given the fact that this looks to be a middling movie destined for box office disaster- and almost sadly predictable, even from the trailer. (I'll put money on it right now: big city girl (Zellweger) gets sent to small town Minnesota where hunky man makes her see the virtues of small town leaving as well as sweeping her off her feet.)
There, I just saved you seven bucks. And hey, wait a minute- wasn't there another movie similar to this?
Either way, it just looks like another exercise in creative laziness from Hollywood. Is it then, any wonder that they're losing money hand over fist? I think this is a problem- there seems to be a dearth of movies that make me sit up and take notice anymore- no one wants to push creative boundaries- they only want to throw up nuggets like this one in the vain hope that they'll make some money.
I'm betting they won't- but see for yourselves nonetheless:
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