too young to get hitched
Jul. 18th, 2009 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dvampyrlestatTime for cheek-pinching.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARA-CHAN~!!!
You might be a year older, not necessarily wiser (it's your prerogative, but who said the wise has more fun???), and I know I tease you quite a lot, (yes, even when your back is turned) but you know I adore you, and you'd always, ALWAYS be little-girl Sara-chan to me.
That was a long 'argument', so just suck it up.
LOL!!!
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Who's seen THE PROPOSAL?
It's still to be released in my country in a couple of weeks, but thank goodness to the wonder that is the Net, and unscrupulous people who upload, I watched it while forsaking lunch at the office. This was more than two weeks ago.
So here's a film written by a guy Pete Chiarelli (his first produced script and first credit), for which he pitched by posing as a woman named Jennifer Kirby. LOL. What's this stereotype about love stories can only be written by women? I thought the likes of Nicholas Sparks broke that mold already.
Anyway, in a nutshell, Sandra Bullock plays the boss-from-hell to Ryan Reynolds' aspiring-writer-but-has-to-work-for-this-boss-from-hell-publicist. But she's Canadian, and she'd be deported soon. So she intimidates her assistant into marrying her. To prove the immigration authorities how real their thing is, she agrees to go up to Alaska to spend the weekend with his family. And there the story begins.
Sandra goes back to familiar territory with a romcom. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING is one of my personal favorites in the genre.
Ryan's a dish. Period. Oh, and he can actually act. (I'd get started on Keanu, but that'd incur my mother's wrath, and that'd also be a bit hypocritical since I think he's a dish too... and he's good at acting as a wood. *coughs*)
What I thought of the film.
SO PREDICTABLE. Sure, the "She is the boss, and he is the underling" was kind of a twist, but pretty much everything that happens afterward is predictable. They go meet the family, she realizes he's more than an assistant, he realizes she's more than a tyrant (omg, she's human too!), they catch each other naked (hilarious sequence, though. And again, Ryan's a dish.), there's the eccentric family, with the brooding dad, the doting mom and the... err... weird grandmother. And zany small-town characters that you see in pretty much 90% of the films of this genre.
Should you go see it? Sureee. For all its predictability, it was still fun to watch. For the laughs, the silliness. And that's what films are for, right? Escapism. Whatever degree, it's still escapism. Ryan could've been given better material, though. So could Sandra. But to their credit, they pulled it off.
I like the line at the end, though.
"I want to marry you so I can date you."
I don't think a female writer could've come up with that one.
Again.... how did Ohno say he'd propose again? "Let's go get married!"... was that it?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARA-CHAN~!!!
You might be a year older, not necessarily wiser (it's your prerogative, but who said the wise has more fun???), and I know I tease you quite a lot, (yes, even when your back is turned) but you know I adore you, and you'd always, ALWAYS be little-girl Sara-chan to me.
That was a long 'argument', so just suck it up.
LOL!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who's seen THE PROPOSAL?
It's still to be released in my country in a couple of weeks, but thank goodness to the wonder that is the Net, and unscrupulous people who upload, I watched it while forsaking lunch at the office. This was more than two weeks ago.
So here's a film written by a guy Pete Chiarelli (his first produced script and first credit), for which he pitched by posing as a woman named Jennifer Kirby. LOL. What's this stereotype about love stories can only be written by women? I thought the likes of Nicholas Sparks broke that mold already.
Anyway, in a nutshell, Sandra Bullock plays the boss-from-hell to Ryan Reynolds' aspiring-writer-but-has-to-work-for-this-boss-from-hell-publicist. But she's Canadian, and she'd be deported soon. So she intimidates her assistant into marrying her. To prove the immigration authorities how real their thing is, she agrees to go up to Alaska to spend the weekend with his family. And there the story begins.
Sandra goes back to familiar territory with a romcom. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING is one of my personal favorites in the genre.
Ryan's a dish. Period. Oh, and he can actually act. (I'd get started on Keanu, but that'd incur my mother's wrath, and that'd also be a bit hypocritical since I think he's a dish too... and he's good at acting as a wood. *coughs*)
What I thought of the film.
SO PREDICTABLE. Sure, the "She is the boss, and he is the underling" was kind of a twist, but pretty much everything that happens afterward is predictable. They go meet the family, she realizes he's more than an assistant, he realizes she's more than a tyrant (omg, she's human too!), they catch each other naked (hilarious sequence, though. And again, Ryan's a dish.), there's the eccentric family, with the brooding dad, the doting mom and the... err... weird grandmother. And zany small-town characters that you see in pretty much 90% of the films of this genre.
Should you go see it? Sureee. For all its predictability, it was still fun to watch. For the laughs, the silliness. And that's what films are for, right? Escapism. Whatever degree, it's still escapism. Ryan could've been given better material, though. So could Sandra. But to their credit, they pulled it off.
I like the line at the end, though.
"I want to marry you so I can date you."
I don't think a female writer could've come up with that one.
Again.... how did Ohno say he'd propose again? "Let's go get married!"... was that it?
