The Current Cinema

I asked for a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. My review of Life As We Know It is up now at MSN Movies. 

Comments

[Tom Russell]

Very much agree re: that break-up-so-they-can-make-up twenty-minute third act extender-slash-sad-montage-with-lots-of-dissolves-set-to-pussy-pop-music. They've always bored the hell out of me. I think perhaps it's an attempt to go "deeper" with the characters and their "emotional journey", but as it almost always happens in the bauble-iest of rom-coms, it doesn't really work, just drags the whole thing down.

[Jason M.]

So, you're saying I'd be better off watching 'Social Network' then?

[Lex]

HEIGL = YUM. She makes the WORST movies but I could watch her in anything. Also Lucas and Duhamel are cool dudes, so I'm totally going to see this.

Do they show her feet a lot in it?

[Terry McCarty]

http://poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com/2010/09/shedding-tears-for-denise-dinovis.html

Hoping Ms. DiNovi (however long she was involved with the production) didn't have to suffer the slings and arrows of mother and daughter Heigl telling her how to make a movie.

[Glenn Kenny]

Lex: Pretty much agreed on Heigl. She's extremely...what's the word?...watchable, I find. Got nothing against Duhamel and like Lucas, although the latter carries a real "you may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?" vibe throughout. It's like, "Didn't I pay these dues in 'Sweet Home Alabama?' When did I turn into the below-the-Mason-Dixon-line latter day Ralph Bellamy?"

As for feet, not so much. This Berlanti fella ain't Buñuel. In ANY respect.

[Jason]

I know this is not the point of the post, or the movie, but as a lawyer, I look at the left background of that screencap and think, "What production designer thinks that people keep an entire set of US Supreme Court reporters in their homes?"

[Dan Coyle]

Having read Berlanti's script for Green Lantern- and by "read", I mean, "thrown across the room after the 500th invocation of Hal Jordan's dead daddy issues" I just have to say, I hope they got some rewrites on that sucker.