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Mar 16, 2012 22:06

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SWtF drinking game anonymous March 17 2012, 03:03:19 UTC

I think there should be a Swinging With the Finkels drinking game.

You drink when

-- something racist happens
-- there's a ridiculous portrayal of homosexuality in general
-- kink is played for laughs
-- Alvin does something stupid and isn't called on it

If you want to get blitzed in about two seconds, drink every time you have to wonder why we're supposed to believe that they're married. Mandy Moore was about 25 when this was filmed, and they're supposed to have been married for 9 years at this point. LOL NO. Also she's a designer successful enough to have her own assistant and, IDEK, an atelier full of gorgeous fabric and she's not working her ass off? She's always off somewhere. I just don't know.

Also, Amanda Abbington has been in it for about 2 seconds so far. I am disappoint.

Still, Martin is very lovely.

Re: SWtF drinking game (minor spoilers for the movie? Maybe?) meredydd March 17 2012, 03:32:39 UTC

I watched it the other day and came away from it going "well, that was a really long episode of a tv show that won't get renewed next season." It wasn't sucktastic but it wasn't great. Reasons you mentioned, above, and I just really didn't buy the chemistry or lack thereof between the two of them. Also, I was legit disappointed in the lack of, you know, swinging. It was maybe ten minutes of the whole movie and then it wasn't... It was like "Oh, ha, just kidding! See, kink can ruin lives, kids! Stay in school."

Re: SWtF drinking game (minor spoilers for the movie? Maybe?) anonymous March 17 2012, 03:48:44 UTC

I keep pausing it because it's so bad. If I were Mandy Moore I'd be pissed, too, at that mural on their landing. Martin's likeness is very good. Her-- not at all.

Their hug on the landing before they went to their separate rooms was kind of cute, I was hoping they'd meet up in the morning all unable to keep their hands off each other and just energized and bouncy, and then they and the other couple have a lovely brunch. And then next weekend maybe they get together to do something date-y, like, IDEK, they go to the Notting Hill farmers market or something. They walk on the embankment, they go to a play. They go on a date. I want a lovely episode of the two couples wooing each other and then I want them to stay friends and sometimes have sex and sometimes not and that would have been lovely.

It would be fine too of course if they're like oh hey this is a one-off, thank you, this was fun, good night and good luck.

But... based on what you said I'm thinking well, it'll probably be neither of those things.

Re: SWtF drinking game (minor spoilers for the movie? Maybe?) meredydd March 17 2012, 03:55:24 UTC

They brought it 'round for a rom com sweet ending but the kink angle (I'm really nitpicking that one lol) seemed to be more of a warning than a legit life choice or experiment. The movie had it's moments but they really handled the swinging part poorly. The interviews were a bit funny but the actual swinging part? Eh. I agree--I'd have loved to see it handled in a dating way and not how it was... And Alvin SO got away with so much bullshit that I wondered why they were still married to start with.

Re: SWtF drinking game (minor spoilers for the movie? Maybe?) anonymous March 18 2012, 03:24:39 UTC

The short film was charming.
How they got from that to that movie is beyond me.
Freeman and Moore were COMPLETELY wrong for the roles and TOTALLY unbelievable has the married couple.
I dig Freeman and find Moore charming in small doses.
But, seriously, he looked like her fucking DAD and the tried to frump her up to make her look at least in the ballpark of his age and level of attractiveness.
Freeman's too English and Moore's too hot to realistically portray this couple of wannabe reluctant swingers.
And I'm supposed to seriously believe Freeman as a Jewish mensch in the Woody Allen self-deprecating manner?
COME ON.

Re: SWtF drinking game (minor spoilers for the movie? Maybe?) meredydd March 18 2012, 05:00:40 UTC

I never saw the short film... I must seek this out for comparison.

I don't understand the casting choices in the movie... I felt like Jerry Stiller was thrown in as "The Recognizable Jew" to reinforce the idea this was a Jewish couple and was kind of wasted as her dad in the movie, and while I'm all for love at any age, differences in years be damned, I just really thought the relationship between Freeman's character and Moore's came off as really parental/child and it was kinda flat romantically.

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