i spent this valentine's day watching he's just not that into you with my mom, sister, grandma and aunts.
i simply OOZE mojo! i will soon start writing books and teaching seminars on being awesome.
***if you're going to see the movie and you don't want me to color your perception of the film, then read this post instead.***
remember how i lalaloved the book? i peddle messages from my friend greg's admonitions the way i should be preaching christianity and 30 rock (both excellent things, i might add). i found the book completely liberating. drinking from the pages of wit and sharp honesty, i felt fantastic about my life and my "pretty." after reading it i felt confident, sane, hopeful. i had tremendous feelings of empathy and goodwill for the opposite sex. grounded but hopeful, i felt about humanity the way that barack obama felt about america before inauguration day. it was that good!
and then i saw that movie.
surprised at myself for saying this, but i LOVE gennifer goodwin's hair in it. and i can't find a good picture of it, natch.
basically, everything other than gennifer goodwin's hair was mediocre at best. for such a real, in-your-face book, the movie fell hopelessly flat for me. greg behrendt's book is based on the premise that you can't change people, and that being happy with yourself and accepting people for who they are is the recipe for peace in your personal life.
the movie just shows a host of people making dramatic personality changes in a matter of 5 minutes, which i'm guessing in real time would be about a week.
the book teaches you that the "exception to the rule" that you see in movies isn't real and that you probably won't have that in your life, but that doesn't mean that things won't be splendid and wonderful. you don't need to be the exception to be happy. to be honest, i've kind of built my life on that whole attitude. i think it's important to enjoy the simple things, choose to be happy and consciously pick out the good stuff to celebrate every day.
the movie blasts out exception after exception after exception...and i'm sitting there thinking...did greg get a look at this script before they started filming this? or...seriously. beuller? what happened here?
what did you think? i mean, am i up in the night? did i just accidentally wear my grouchy pants to the theater, or was this movie a little off base?
5 comments:
I never read the book so I'm not a reliable source to compare the book and movie. However, I was not a fan. I didn't feel like it stuck to the title at all. The boys all changed. They obviously were that into her. I didn't think it fit. So I agree.
i haven't read the book or seen the movie, but i think i'll get the book instead!
Haha... that was the one thing that my friend Clint said when we all left the movie! He said, "I'm sorry, but the entire movie, the message is that you are the rule, not the exception... and in the end, EVERY GIRL IN THAT MOVIE WAS THE EXCEPTION." And I said, "well, it can't end sad!" Haha
Also, we decided that ScarJo's stylist hated her.
Also, I'm tired of seeing Bradley Cooper in mean roles. He really plays a sincere, convincing good guy. I'd like to see that again. (An Open Letter to be posted on my blog today.)
i've never read the book but i HATED the movie. it had a few funny parts, but for the most part it dragged on and on and on. not to mention the fact that scarlett's orange roots drove me nuts the entire time.
It was bad bad bad, I wanted to leave, I hated it that much. I agree with the statement that ScarJo's stylist must hate her; her hair was crazy and cheap looking and her outfits did nothing for her and made her look like she had a crazy tummy, which we all know she does not have. Gennifer's hair was super cute and so was her styling but overall it was the antithesis of the book and super dissapointing! Did you notice that all the previews for movies before the film excluding Harry Potter, of course; also all looked really bad and stupid? It was horrifying.
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