'Out Of Gas'
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I saw it less as a romantic movie than a relationships one.
Well yes, but
it used a heck of a lot of bad romantic comedy tropes: specifically doing all the things shitty people who are really nice guys at heart do in those to show that they are really nice guys deep down inside.
And unlike the Romantic comedies it doesn't work
I guess I just didn't see it as a romcom at all.
It's a coming-of-age story. Interestingly, the guy coming-of-age starts off thinking that he has everything figured out and the thing he learns is that the life he carefully crafted for himself is not what he wants. He ends the film broken, which is very interesting for a Big movie.
What was interesting to me is that the viewer, his family, and Natalie, view him as broken from the get go. He's the only one who doesn't. And then, he comes to the realization too.
I guess that's why I squirmed, because I know I don't get the relationship thing, and am fine with that- romantic, that is. But I know that makes me the odd one out. He doesn't. And then gets slapped in the face with it when he tries.
Boy, Avatar hit every page of the "What these people need is a honky" playbook. And then flipped back to the beginning and started over.
I do not get Sam Worthington. He is only slightly more attractive and charismatic than Channing Tatum. And his American accent needs some serious work.
Sherlock Holmes was just plain fun.
Channing Tatum is fairly attractive on a purely visual level, but I've run across furniture with more personality.
I just saw Avatar tonight. I spent most of it looking at the scenery rather than the characters. So, I rather enjoyed it.
I saw Sherlock Holmes this afternoon. Loved it! There were a ton of previews before it that looked good too, although I can only remember the previews for Iron Man II and Wolfman right now.
I saw a trailer the other night for a vampire movie, I thought it was called Daywalkers but I can't seem to find anything.
The trailer started with something like "Blood is our most precious commodity" there were some scenes that looked old with kinda Red Cross. Then some other stuff, and then a woman saying "my children are starving".
Then it was like a ad for a company, a pharmaceutical company that's "keeping the last of the humans alive for you". It showed a scared human on a operating table with blood being taken from him. Then switched to a scene with gray, thin people being kept alive, their faces encased in a machine.
Anyone know about this?