Feb. 3rd, 2016

madbaker: (Skippy)
This spent about three weeks in theaters last year. I guess it was too British to do well? Anyway, the WSJ film reviewer said good things about it and it has Simon Pegg. Also Lake Bell, whose "In a World..." I liked quite a bit more than I expected to.

The good: it's a fluffy rom-com that doesn't pretend to be more than it is. Pegg and Bell have extremely believable chemistry. (She also makes a convincing Brit, but she's good at accents.) It was nice that the leads were not callow twenty-somethings; Pegg played a broken 40-year-old recent divorcé and Bell, a cynical 34-year-old who hasn't dated in years. Yeah, still an age gap but at least the 40yo guy didn't end up with the Hollywood-pretty 22yo girl.

The bad: it's a fluffy rom-com. If you don't like that sort of thing you'll hate this.

Bonus points for the extras including the scriptwriter explaining "the seven beats of rom-coms" that they hit to make the story work. She was nerding out; it's from Billy Mernit's scriptwriting book. I found it fascinating.

Profile

madbaker: (Default)
madbaker

August 2025

S M T W T F S
     12
3456 789
10 1112131415 16
17 1819 20212223
242526 27282930
31      

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Aug. 29th, 2025 12:57 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios