Escape to the Movies: Love & Other Drugs

[8bitmaster]

I know Bob pulled this apart quite well, but it is true that romantic comedies are usually bad, because they are all the same! It is good to know that someone mixed it up a bit. Hopefully this happens more, but not too much or the changes to a similar formula will make them bland all over again.

 

[Necromancer1991]

A romantic Comedy, with sex *looks around*
I mean really how hard is that to ask, I mean all a romantic comedy does is stretch out the awkwardness of the first date and mixing it with slapstick, WHICH DOESN'T WORK!! I mean really how hard is it for you to have sex, I don't care if all I get is a Mass Effect-style sideboob, AT LEAST GIVE ME SOMETHING MORE THAN HAND-HOLDING AND THE WHISPERING OF SWEET NOTHINGS!!!!!!!

 

[Seamus8]

I hate 99% of Romcoms, but Contact, Meet Joe Black, and The American President were the balls.

Go ahead, laugh.

 

[Kitteh]

I liked that main man in Jarhead
and Glory was awesome, and theres a reason everyone "borrows" from its soundtrack

 

[TheSchaef]

Sooo... You only liked it because you got to see Anne Hathaway naked and having lots of sex?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

To sum up my reaction to this review:

- Mega Man DOES go with everything, go ahead and apply liberally in future episodes
- I'm glad that when mentioning Zwick, you added "since Glory" to the phrase "best movie". If you even tried to put this up against freaking Glory, I would have had to stop you right there.
- It's funny that you showed Toy Story Barbie and Ken in your review, since I actually got a lot more out of those two than the principal characters in most romcoms... the ones that really weird me out are the ones with odd couplings: David Duchovny and Minnie Driver in Return to Me, James Woods and Dolly Parton in Straight Talk, Hugh Grant and... well, ANYbody...
- I saw you hiding back there, Judy Greer...
- Nice to see Oliver Platt doing his Kevin Pollack impression again. Kinda hard to bag on him, though, because the truth is, he holds his own against Pollack when it comes to character roles.

Glory was awesome, and theres a reason everyone "borrows" from its soundtrack

Because Horner borrowed from Carmina Burana?

I'm allowed to make that joke because a). it's true and b). I'm a huge James Horner fan.

 

[Reptiloid]

Damn, Bob.

Once again, one of your main selling points is basically "Ooh look a woman! With tits! In a movie! Best movie ever!"

I haven't really taken you seriously as a reviewer since Avatar, but you're certainly not making an effort to change that impression.

Really now, am I the only heterosexual male who simply does not give a shit about what women look like in movies? If I want eye candy, I'd go to a questionable site. When it's movie time, I want depth. Substance. An experience. Not hot women. They don't make movies better, and they add nothing to the overall experience, unless you're 12. GOOD movies are not about pretty people, nor should they be.

 

[Squarez]

"We see them fuck, so it's like they're real people!"

That's what I got out of this.

Apparantly it still has every other romcom cliche in the book, the fack that they get it on doesnt sound like enough reason to stop this from sounding like another immensely annoying movie to watch.

That's not what he was saying. There are plenty of rom-coms where we the stars have sex scenes but from what I understand is that the main reason they start to like each other isn't because the man is some kind of mixture of Jesus and Edward Cullen and the woman is just missing something from her life. It's because they see each other and basically just want to bang each other and the relationship evolves from there, much more like real life.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

And yet strangely enough, just about everything you said completely put me off the movie.

 

[370999]

Am I the only straight person to not like Ann Hathway or Amanda Nonthreateningwhiteperson? Anyway rom-coms always seemed to have abit of a problem to me due to the fact that will they or won't they is hardly strong enough tension to hold up a plot on it's own. That said I actually like them , gasp shock horror, but as an escapist fantasy, a world where everyone is attractive and paired up his someone they like seem pleasent to me.

That said I anyone waiting for when we get to see a rom-com between a paedophile and a underage girl. I'm sure a suitably dark comic could do alot with it.

 

[Necrofudge]

Interesting perspective on the movie
Still, nudity aside, I doubt it's very interesting and it isn't enough to make me want to see it.

 

[Comic Sans]

I was sold at "Anne Hathaway as a sexy free spirit." No Offense to all the other lovely ladies, but IMHO Anne Hathaway is the most beautiful actress of this generation. I could gaze into her bright smile and eyes all day.

I was a little worried her talent was getting relegated to the "Pure Virtuous" Typecast.I am not at all completely familure with all of her movies, but I watched her go from Princess Diaries to Bridewars to Devil Wears Parada to...um...Get Smart. (Lets face it, not a good movie) Yeah, she has a sexy moment in Devil Wears Parada, but its just to contrast her loyal character. In Get Smart, her character's sexieness just felt contrived because of the omoage to the original character she was portraying. (And yeah, Anne's characters all had spirit, but it took a back seat to the virture in those movies.)

But as a genuine, sexy, free spirit... Horray. I guess what I'm looking for in this movie is her spirit taking the lead over her usual virtuosity... oh and her hot naked body.

Watch Havoc. Thank me later.

 

[Drakmeire]

I actually liked the spirit. I don't know why everyone was so hard on it, sure it was over-done and parts made no sense, but it was funny, a decent satire of overblown superhero noire and just a simple fun movie that was style for the sake of style.
but I still have no desire to see this movie.

 

[MmmFiber]

You had me at Anne Hathaway naked.

Basically.

Just watched the trailer for this movie, and it seems kind of funny. Might give it a watch.

 

[hamster mk 4]

Congrats to Movie Bob for escaping retail, and more importantly surviving 13 black Fridays.

 

[snugglesgold]

Rom coms that don't suck...?? 500 days of summer, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and, for those of us who lived through the eighties, when Harry met Sally..As for those banging on about realism and believability, if you filmed someones normal relationship and put it on screen no one would be able to stay awake during the screening no matter how "believable" it was!! Yeah two models working for a viagra company who end up in a chase scene involving a bus and a load of senior citizens..seems realistic to me!!

 

[Leftnt Sharpe]

I've just realised that the only romantic comedies I actually like all have Hugh Grant in them. Four Weddings and a Funeral = Epic Win!

 

[A Curious Fellow]

Good review. Gonna take your advice. Anne Hathaway makes my pants tight. 'Nuff said.

 

[whothefisthat]

I previously had no interest in seeing this movie and now...I still have no interest in seeing this movie. Just because there is more sex does not make a movie or its characters more "real". The very idea that dealing more with sex in a movie makes a relationship more beleavable goes to illistrate a total lack of understanding about how a relationship works. Yes, most romanitc comadies suck and gues what alot of those also deal with sex (I'm pretty sure Julia Roberts was a hooker in Pretty Woman). There are good romantic comodies that take an honest look at the characters involved and how human beings relate to each other. To prove my point here are two romantic comadies that dont suck "Chasing Amy" and "Scott Pilgram vs the World"

 

[fullbleed]

You know what I'm getting from this? How long has it been since you last got any Bob?

That aside I loved the dig at the Spirit.

 

[Swaki]

you could call it the second rising of kubrick and i still wouldent be interested, why you may ask as you stroke your beard, well for once, i notice and hate cliches more than any other human alive, which sadly means that i can rarely enjoy a comedy, and secondly, i dont find sex funny, and i really dont think its anything new, sex has seemed to be the punchline of every joke in every movie aimed at "me" since i have been alive, and for the thrill of seeing ann hataway (or something) naked even if that did intrest me there would always be mr.skin or google image search.