Movie Critic:: Picnic (1955)

This movie, an award-winning film adaptation of the William Inge Play, is about a man named Hal Carter, an arrogant drifter, who in less than two words disturbs the peace in a quiet Kansas town when going to visit an old friend. Unfortunatly... This movie was poop. Pure, and utter - poop. Of course in 1955, these kind of scenario's must have been inspiring. In a world of betrayel, it only angered me to see more.

Millie (Susan Strasberg) is the first character to appear in the movie. She looks like a tomboy and is obviously jealous of her sister, Madge (Kim Novak). Throughout the movie, Millie (nicknamed Goonface) introduces a series of scenes where she pitifully cries, "Madge is the pretty one!" and runs off in a fit of tears. Personally? I feel sorry for this girl. SHE is the true star of this movie. Yet, of course, it is stolen by the 'perfect looking' Madge, whom gets tired of everyone telling her she's pretty. The first scene Madge appears in, she is drying her hair outside of a window. Millie goes to sit underneath the window (to read a book) and her sister's wet hair droplets land on it. Millie, upset, is countered with an arrogant response from her sister.

The sister mix-up not only upset me, but the layout of the romance scenes. Hal, the absolute main character, is sent to the Picnic with Millie. Now, as everyone knows, Millie and Hal can not end up together: There's too much of an age difference. That isn't what upset me. What upset me was the way Madge got around to stealing the man away from her little sister (whom Millie was falling in love with.) One scene featured Millie and Hal, trying to dance on a dock during the Picnic. Millie, who couldn't get a dance step down right, is interrupted by her sister Madge, coming down the steps with the perfected dance step, all the while locking eyes with Hal.

Know what I hated with burning rage? That Madge almost had to SEDUCE this man to make him fall in love with her.

This movie was poop. I rarely hate movies, but in this case?... We'll leave this up to the Oscars.