BOBBY

CAROLINE: Well, who would have thought that in 2006 we’d be seeing a movie directed by Emilio Estevez?

RYAN: Not me.

CAROLINE: The movie is “Bobby” and it stars everybody.

RYAN: Indeed it does. And that’s what initially piqued my interest in seeing this film. It’s got Sharon Stone, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher…

CAROLINE: And Helen Hunt, who we haven’t seen in a while.

RYAN: She’s the only female Academy Award winner in the bunch – and she gave the most flat performance.

CAROLINE: Yeah, I wasn’t feeling her in this flick. Demi and Sharon were awesome though.

RYAN: Demi looks like she’s 29!

CAROLINE: Hmm, not sure about that. She looks older to me but she’s definitely looking good.

RYAN: Oh but her lip-synching was so off during the part where she sings her two lines. It’s like, “Hello! Either re-shoot it or cut it out!” At least she did her own singing though.

CAROLINE: I wasn’t that offended by her bad lip-synching. It wasn’t nearly as awful as Penny Cruz’s in “Volver.”

RYAN: True. What did you think of Lindsay Lohan? She’s getting raves, you know?

CAROLINE: Is she? I wasn’t that impressed. I felt zero chemistry between her and Elijah Wood.

RYAN: Totally. I didn’t feel a connection either.

CAROLINE: The thing about the movie is that it’s all these different vignettes that happen in one day leading up to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. And I just wasn’t that into most of the stories.

RYAN: The film kind of suffers from the “Titanic” syndrome in that you’re waiting the entire length of the film for that big moment to happen: the murder of R.F.K.

CAROLINE: Once it got there, I was really into it. The last fifteen minutes of the movie were great. And I just loved all the 60s costumes and hairstyles.

RYAN: The one fun kind of urban legend-y thing about this movie is that you never see the face of the person who plays Bobby. It’s rumored that Emilio Estevez portrayed him.

CAROLINE: Oooh, I didn’t know that! Fun fact. It’s true. Bobby’s only shot from behind or from a side angle. Other than that, they use archival footage of the real Bobby.

RYAN: And no one is credited in the film as playing Bobby. I heard that everyone had to sign confidentiality agreements saying they wouldn’t reveal who it was who portrayed him.

CAROLINE: What’s your bottom line?

RYAN: The first half is kind long and I actually slept for about a half hour there. But then it picks up and gets interesting; and, as Oprah said, it’s a good film for our generation to see because Bobby was a great man who was gone too soon.

CAROLINE: I loved the last fifteen minutes. But other than one scene between Sharon Stone and William H. Macy in the hair salon, the rest of it was kind of boring. This is not the Best Picture Oscar contender we hoped it would be.

RYAN: Enter at your own risk.