![]() The Texture Transformer is a powerful utility that transforms skin texture maps from many popular figures to another. And, now the M4 to G2M has an additional option for anatomy conversions. But this follow-up needed to give us more, something along the lines of a sharper film deserving of the earned legacies of Fonda, Keaton, Bergen and Steenburgen.BUY a Texture Transformer or Blacksmith3D PRO-7 license (that includes Texture Transformer) through our store at the Renderosity Marketplace.įree inside Blacksmith3D-Pro or available as a stand-alone applicationĬonvert thousands of character skin textures from Victoria 4 (V4) to Dawn, V4 to Roxie, V4 to Genesis 2 Female (G2F), Michael 4 (M4) to Dusk, and M4 to Genesis 2 Male (G2M). ![]() Perhaps it was enough for “Book Club” to merely exist as an act of rebellion against the stubbornly young-skewing studio fare. The icing that tries to prettify an under-baked cake is naturally the upcoming wedding, which “The Next Chapter” drags on until it overstays it welcome. ![]() Yet there is pleasure to be had in the band’s company, especially during a storybook wedding dress shopping sequence where Vivian finds her ideal gown and Diane gives us a taste of the most Diane Keaton outfit imaginable.Įlsewhere, the journey gets enlivened by an old flame Carol runs into in Venice, a running gag about a police officer on the travelers’ case, a casual hook-up Sharon enjoys with Hugh Quarshie’s Ousmane (even if the film is sadly too coy to actually show anything worthwhile) and plenty of red-sauce Italian food porn. It’s completely implausible how they come to lose their luggage in Italy or serve jail time overnight-shouldn’t four smart, worldly and experienced women know a little better?-and the dialogue exchanges that are supposed to be laugh-out-loud are full of clunkers. Nelson) health after the stroke he suffered. Relegated to civic duties like marrying people in her retirement, Sharon gleefully agrees and so do Diane (still living with Andy Garcia’s dreamboat Mitchell) and the fearful Carol, closely policing her husband Bruce’s (Craig T. The Italian vacation kicks off as an excuse to set a former travel plan that never was in motion and to throw a bachelorette party for Vivian, who’s finally agreed to tie the knot with her boyfriend Arthur (Don Johnson) after a joint quarantine period in NYC. Still, the locations are fantastic and so are the quartet of women, even if they seem suffocated by a meandering story and uninspired jokes. Crash Italian Bachelorette Party in ‘Book Club: The Next Chapter’ Trailer (Video) This critic couldn’t help, though, but wish for something snappier, droller, and maybe even more scandalous.ĭiane Keaton, Jane Fonda and Co. Sure, the film gets its philosophical point across-it’s never too late to start a new chapter-and does so with the backdrop of picturesque Italian vistas across Rome, Venice and Tuscany. Like they did in the predecessor, the co-writers approach these characters’ aging with respect and warmth-a miracle in mainstream Hollywood that doesn’t have the greatest track record in telling rich stories centered on septuagenarians.īut the bad news is “Book Club: The Next Chapter” never quite manages to seize the groove it established in its opening moments. The good news is, the script by Holderman and Erin Simms know better than treating these screen legends as anything less than fabulous friends on a fabulous trip. So you find yourself rooting for these four friends taking an overseas trip as promised by “The Next Chapter,” especially knowing that Covid stole so much precious time out of their remaining lives, as women already in their 70s and 80s. WGA Strike Roundtable: Writers Say TV Is ‘Broken, and We’re Reinventing It Poorly’ (Video)ĭespite taking place entirely on Zoom screens before the opening credits even kick in, these scenes are oddly delightful, with their cinematic sense of economy on the page and resonance around the rough realities many families, friends and the world’s aging population got confronted with during the darkest days of the pandemic.
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