Comments | zalena: Leap Year

zalena

Leap Year

Jan 16, 2010 07:44

Most of you know that I am generally antagonistic to romcom. Often times I watch these films and think, "Quit lying to me!" Especially if the heroine is particularly stupid, manipulative, or worse, pretty pretending to be plain. However, there are always exceptions to the rule, and one of the things that's occurred to me is that: these are still ( Read more... )

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ashfae January 16 2010, 18:22:51 UTC

I kind of want to see this now, whereas I'd had no interest in it before.

But still not as much as I want to see the Thirty-nine Steps. =)

zalena January 16 2010, 19:02:36 UTC

I recommend all the other films on this list far and away above the film itself. But I really liked the acknowledgment of the public/private split. It was the most intriguing aspect of an otherwise pedestrian film.

When we looked it up on Rotten Tomatoes I was shocked to see it got a whopping splat of 18%. It is not a good film, but surely in a genre that is stuffed with meaningless romance, it is also not THAT bad.

Ebert liked it, and I think his review is fair:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100106/REVIEWS/100109989/1023