movie: Just Friends
Jul. 7th, 2006 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockNot as entertaining as I'd secretly, very secretly hoped from the commercial, but just as immature as I expected.
Mostly, what suprised me was the way they actually made Ryan Reynolds less hot. And I'm not talking about the fatsuit-- the whole movie he was just... not as hot as he normally is. I blame the cinematopher and dressing crews. I mean, come on people! This is the guy who spent the entire duration of The Amityville Horror running around shirtless and psychotic. This is the guy who made me like beards because he had one in Blade: Trinity! How can you limit his hotness like this? It's like you're deliberately trying to ruin what wonderful assets he has for display.
Maybe if they'd set the movie somewhere where it wasn't snowing, then he could spend more time with his shirt off. That would have helped.
Mostly it was just a "bleh" movie. Some of the jokes were funny, but none of them were really great (the best were from the dentist frien, but he wasn't in enough scenes.) I didn't really buy into the romance, either. I spent a great deal of time wondering where the movie was going. Many a cliche was utilized.
If I wrote the movie... the pop star girl would have been less crazy and more quirky. She would have ended up with him. Although she drove him crazy and do strange things that bugged him, they'd also do oddly intimate things all throughout the movie like brush puff-balls off each other's shoulders and stuff. Really innocuous, but telling. And Ryan Reynolds would spend like 80% of the movie trying to get the girl next door he used to have a crush on, only to realize that his current best friend (pop star girl) is the one who he belongs with. The nice girl next door wouldn't do anything villainous, he'd just come to realize that he's grown up and become a different person and so has she and he loves the girl beside him now.
Of course, in my movie he'd be less annoying. Still obtuse and sarcastic and cluess, but less annoying stuff that's only thrown in for gags that a 7th grader would appreciate.
Mostly, what suprised me was the way they actually made Ryan Reynolds less hot. And I'm not talking about the fatsuit-- the whole movie he was just... not as hot as he normally is. I blame the cinematopher and dressing crews. I mean, come on people! This is the guy who spent the entire duration of The Amityville Horror running around shirtless and psychotic. This is the guy who made me like beards because he had one in Blade: Trinity! How can you limit his hotness like this? It's like you're deliberately trying to ruin what wonderful assets he has for display.
Maybe if they'd set the movie somewhere where it wasn't snowing, then he could spend more time with his shirt off. That would have helped.
Mostly it was just a "bleh" movie. Some of the jokes were funny, but none of them were really great (the best were from the dentist frien, but he wasn't in enough scenes.) I didn't really buy into the romance, either. I spent a great deal of time wondering where the movie was going. Many a cliche was utilized.
If I wrote the movie... the pop star girl would have been less crazy and more quirky. She would have ended up with him. Although she drove him crazy and do strange things that bugged him, they'd also do oddly intimate things all throughout the movie like brush puff-balls off each other's shoulders and stuff. Really innocuous, but telling. And Ryan Reynolds would spend like 80% of the movie trying to get the girl next door he used to have a crush on, only to realize that his current best friend (pop star girl) is the one who he belongs with. The nice girl next door wouldn't do anything villainous, he'd just come to realize that he's grown up and become a different person and so has she and he loves the girl beside him now.
Of course, in my movie he'd be less annoying. Still obtuse and sarcastic and cluess, but less annoying stuff that's only thrown in for gags that a 7th grader would appreciate.
