A few weeks back, when I was finding time to see The Blind Side due to its twin statuses as the only Best Picture nominee and the highest grossing 2009 movie I hadn't seen, I added The Proposal to my Netflix queue. This made a kind of sense because not only was The Proposal the third-highest grossing movie of 2009 that I hadn't seen (sorry, Ice Age
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I can't remember if I saw it with Amanda or Ali, but whoever it was, I recall both of us being vaguely ashamed that we even wanted to see it, and then quite let down by how mediocre it was even by our low standards. I'd successfully blocked out Oscar Nunez's participation, so thanks for that, and I totally agree that the "rom" part of the rom-com seems weirdly hostile and forced. I didn't ever really buy it. Mainly because of the age difference; I know Ryan Reynolds is only eight or nine years younger than Sandra Bullock, but he seems to belong to a completely different generation of actor and that made the pairing kind of odd. Ugh. Why is it so hard to make a really excellent romantic comedy?
And as to her comedic skills, did you like Miss Congeniality? ( ... )
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I was actually sort of intrigued by Reynolds and Bullock, just because so often you get a 40ish guy with a girl in her twenties. But they didn't ever get on the same page. Reynolds has more chemistry with any of the three women in Definitely, Maybe, and he's not even very funny in that, either -- it's more on the bland side of the Reynolds spectrum ( ... )
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I had this discussion with Marisa pre-Oscars - I am that person who doesn't like While You Were Sleeping, but I generally like Sandra Bullock. You should totally see Miss Congeniality, though. William Shatner and Candice Bergen are also very funny in it.
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I apologize for my over-use of parentheses.
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Sara, JGL+Keener, or Gosling+Huffman... inspired choices. Have the screenplay on my desk by Monday.
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And I think it was set in Sitka, an island town so the coastline thing isn't a problem (it would only be so during a sunset or something, yes?). But yeah, it looks nothing like Coastal Maine or wherever they shot that movie, and the movie mined none of the hilarious weirdness of Alaska. (Like when I was in Sitka I stayed in the home of a woman who'd gone to jail for being an accessory to murder, because she ran one of the few B&Bs in town, and my room had a little doggie bed complete with a life-size ceramic dog that STARED at you.)
Anyway, Jesse, you have to see Ed Norton's upcoming Leaves of Grass. I left it today thinking "I can't wait to hear what Jesse has to say about that."
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