Somehow I thought I had written more for all of you last week, but I guess not. I had done up plenty of drafts talking about everything from my impressive needlepoint work to my not particularly worth it conversations with Mr. LOL. But it all seemed just too boring for even me to read. The Winter Blahs, with all of the cold, snow and darkness have definitely overtaken all of us. We should really be more than grateful that there are only ten days left of January.
We ventured to the movie theatre twice last week, and came out with not much to show for it. Just $18.50 taken from our bank accounts.
Thursday night we went to see Juno, in which I was anticipating a great movie. With all of the Oscar buzz (what is even the point this year.) surrounding the movie and a funny/cute interview I saw with Ellen Page on David Letterman, I thought hopefully we were in for a good show.
Now, I don’t know that it was necessarily bad. Maybe a bit too weirdly crude for my liking, but it seemed to miss…well a real purpose.
From the first thirty seconds of the movie we get to experience the fun and adventure of teen pregnancy. However, it didn’t really seem like an experience at all. It just seemed to be another part of the character, just like she had brown hair, oh yeah, she was pregnant too.
The character seemed to be way too calm and organized about the situation, and everyone else seemed to be just as caviller with the idea that some 16 year old was going to have a baby.
Somehow I thought Degrassi Jr. High did a better job of discussing teen pregnancy, but maybe that wasn’t the point of the movie. But then again what was the point of the movie then?
Not overly bad, but not worth any Oscar nomination it might receive.
Saturday afternoon we braved the cold and snow to attend a matinee viewing of 27 Dresses. I haven’t been to a movie that full since Transformers. It seemed as if every girl in Lethbridge had arrived hoping to find some sort of sunshine to our already cloudy day.
But really all we found was every single romantic comedy situation rolled into one movie, and not as gracefully done as ‘The Holiday’. Let me give you some examples:
A girl who plans everybody’s wedding except her own: See ‘The Wedding Planner.
The person in love with her boss: See ‘Two Weeks Notice’
A girl jealous her younger sister is getting married before her: See ‘The Wedding Date’
Hot guy lies about who he is to win over a girl: See ‘The Prince and Me’
People fall in love with each other after a blurry, drink filled night: See ‘The Wedding Date’,
Person uses their date as article they are writing: See ‘How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.”
Article is released; person is upset and breaks up with article writer: See ‘Hitch’
It all ends with the perfect wedding: See every romantic comedy ever made.
To quote one of our favourite romantic comedy characters, Cathy Seldon, “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all.” And it is very true. There are no new ideas when it comes to the romance genre.
However a good romantic comedy makes you forget every other movie you have ever seen, rather than find the similarities between it and all of movies like it you already have in your collection.
This movie achieved its objective: Make people come to the theatre and pay the $9.25, after that, all they really have to do is show something. Heck, it could have even been 2 hours of Hypno-Toad.
But who knows, maybe you will like it.
Alright well, on to more pressing matters. Here’s hoping your Monday went well, and that your week follows suit.
Good Luck. God Speed.
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