Labels

-books -dates -Lists -Movies -Music -musicals and broadway 24 30 Rock 666 Park Avenue Alcatraz Alias America's Next Top Model American Horror Story American Idol Americans Are You There Chelsea? Arrested Development Arrow Awake Awkward Bates Motel Being Human Ben and Kate Bent Best Friends Forever Better with You Big Bang Theory Big Brother Big C Big Love Blue Bloods Boardwalk Empire Body of Proof Bones Borgias Boss Breaking Bad Breaking In Breaking Pointe Bridge Bunheads Camelot Carrie Diaries Charlie's Angels Chicago Code Chicago Fire Chuck Community Continuum Copper Cougar Town Cult Dark Tower Deception Defenders Degrassi Dexter Doctor Who Dollhouse Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 Downton Abbey Elementary Emily Owens MD Enlightened Episodes Event Fall Falling Skies Family Tree Felicity Finder Firefly Following Fosters Freaks and Geeks Friday Night Lights Friends Fringe Game of Thrones GCB Gifted Man Gilmore GIrls Girls Glee Glee Project Good Wife Gossip Girl Grey's Anatomy Grimm Hannibal Happy Endings Harry Potter Hart of Dixie Hawaii Five-O Hell on Wheels Hellcats Hemlock Grove Heroes Homeland House House of Cards House of Lies How I Met Your Mother How to Be a Gentleman How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) I Hate My Teenage Daughter In Treatment Intervention Jane by Design Jersey Shore Justified Last Man Standing Last Resort Life Unexpected Lone Star Longmire LOST Louie Lying Game Mad Men Make it or Break it Man Up Mindy Project Missing Mockingbird Lane Modern Family Mr Selfridge Napoleon Dynamite Nashville New Girl New Normal Nikita Nine Lives of Chloe King No Ordinary Family Off the Map Office Once Upon a Time Originals Outlaw Outsourced Pan Am Parenthood Parks and Recreation Perfect Couples Person of Interest Playboy Club Pretty Little Liars Prime Suspect Psych Raising Hope Real Housewives of New Jersey Revenge Revolution Ringer Rob Rookie Blue Running Wilde Saving Hope Scandal Scrubs Secret Circle Secret Life of the American Teenager Sex and the City Shameless Sherlock Smash So You Think You Can Dance Sons of Anarchy South Park Southland Suburgatory Supernatural Switched at Birth Teen Wolf Terra Nova The Fall The Fosters The Killing The River The Voice Touch true blood Twisted Two and a Half Men Two Broke Girls Under the Dome Unforgettable United States of Tara Up All Night V Vampire Diaries Veep Vegas Veronica Mars Walking Dead Web Therapy Weeds White Collar Whitney Whole Truth Wilfred Work It X-Factor X-Files Zero Hour

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Crazy, Stupid, Love

Ern and her family deemed this “the perfect chick flick” and kept wanting to see it again. That includes the guys. Ern’s sister couldn’t stop talking about how hot Ryan Gosling was in it. “I couldn’t see it before, but now….” she said. Leeard, on the other hand, found it too predictable and guessed the most important twists. (Keep in mind that she’s a dynamite guesser and none of the friends who went with her had the same experience.)

One thing that we both hated: Most of the scenes with the teenaged babysitter and Steve Carell’s son. A lot of that was just a little ridiculous. We really cared more about the adults, so we felt like the movie got worse whenever it spent time on its youngest generation. We wouldn’t pull out their plot entirely if it were up to us, because it turned out to be important to the other plots and there were a few laughs. But it could have been reduced significantly.

We also think it's nice that someone finally made a romantic movie that is realistic to how people date and hook up nowadays. It focuses on the bar scene and the emptiness of the lives of the guys who hound the bars for one-night-stands constantly. Yeah, love does conquer all, but it's no pic-a-nic starting out in this cynical world.

Can we just mention how much we love Emma Stone? She always plays a smart, down-to-earth girl that normal women can relate to or at least want to be. Sure, she doesn’t always get the guys the way the sweet blonde would, but she always gets to keep her sense of humor and self-respect. And the actress pulls that off every time. She’s proof that we never need Lindsay Lohan back.

Of course, Ryan Gosling is always good in everything he’s in. Steve Carell does his usual thing and draws the laughs. The pacing is perfect. One of us teared up at one point. This is a hugely romantic movie totally focused on “true love” being the key to happiness, but we didn’t care, because it was funny and it had a good cast. This is a really sweet romantic comedy, and it’s funny enough that if a guy has to watch a chick flick, it ought to be this one.

Movie Grade: B+

2 comments:

  1. I loved this movie...Guess I'm not as good of a guesser as Leeard b/c I never saw that twist coming!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Well, the guessing ruined Leeard's enjoyment of the movie somewhat. Her problem is that her dad does the same thing. When she was a kid he used to guess out loud and ruin movies. So that just got her thinking that way.

    Ern hardly ever guesses a thing. If she guesses something, it was very obvious indeed.

    ReplyDelete