Random Musings

One of the things I like to do nowadays is watch a movie first, then go home and check out the score on Rotten Tomatoes to see if what I thought of the show was similar to what other people thought.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to see the score first then watch the movie, because a) if you see that it has a low score, you’d go watching with the “Ok, let’s brace ourselves and see how bad this really is…ah, that line was really bad…now I know why they’ve been slamming this show” kind of mentality, and b) if you see that it has a high score, you’d go watching with the “Ok, this is supposed to be good, I’m supposed to be impressed…wait a minute, why am I not impressed yet” kind of mentality.

Either way, it’s not such a good experience.

The best is still to go with an open mind.

I recently caught the movie “Valentine’s Day”, and was shocked to find out when I went home that Rotten Tomatoes (here) only gave it 18%!

How about that.

“Valentine’s Day” is one of those movies pieced together by the lives of seemingly unrelated people in unrelated relationships (think “Love Actually” and “He’s Just Not That Into You”), but they all somehow manage to come together in some way or other in the end.

To cut to the chase – I liked it.

Definitely something which I might consider buying the DVD and watching again at home.

Ok, maybe I’m a sucker for rom-coms…but that’s just me.

I thought it was enjoyable, funny, touching, heartwarming.

There were a number of lines in the movie that made me go “Hmm, that’s good…that’s really good.”

It was certainly pieced together much better than “HJNTIY”, I felt.

One thing I couldn’t help but wonder is how they managed to rope in literally all the hot babes of Hollywood into the movie.

Let’s see now, there was the two Jessicas – Biel and Alba, there was Jennifer Garner, there was the queen bee Julia Roberts herself, and there was Anne Hathaway.

Can’t possibly go wrong with any of them can you?

Perhaps they could have brought Katherine Heigl on board too, but then I would have had to pinch myself to see if it were all really happening.

That could have been the most stars ever assembled since the Dream Team went to Barcelona.

Definitely too much of a good thing.

And to top it off, they also featured a number of big name male stars such as Jamie Foxx, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher.

The stories were mostly quite cute, some more riveting than others, some with a bit more suspense than others.

Generally it was the good people that enjoyed good endings in the end, and the cheaters that had their just desserts in the end.

Predictable stuff for sure…but hey, this is Hollywood.

There was one particular scene though, which I thought was absolutely not believable at all.

It was the scene when this guy (I forgot his name) is at a Valentine’s Day dinner date with Anne Hathaway, then she stands him up by going outside to take a call on her cell but never comes back, then after awhile he goes outside to look for her and when he finds her, he hears her engaging in raunchy phone talk and thinks it’s her boyfriend on the other line, but it turns out that she actually moonlights as a “adult entertainment” phone operator to help pay the bills (which explains the talking dirty), and she explains this to him, but then he says something like “Ok, that’s it. I’m outta here…” meaning he wants to walk (as in, it’s over between them), but she’s like pleading him not to leave her and stuff.

I don’t know what the writers were thinking when they wrote this part.

I’m sure it can’t be just me who thinks this part is unrealistic.

No way this happens in real life.

Not a chance.

Zilch.

I mean, seriously folks…WHICH GUY IN THE RIGHT MIND WALKS AWAY FROM ANNE HATHAWAY?!?

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Side notes: Taylor Swift also stars in the movie, as does Taylor Lautner, who is the guy who acts in Twilight (not that I should know these things, but…). And one of the guys in the movie, I think his name is “Alex”, looks a lot like Kaka the footballer.