review-y | "existentialism on prom night"
My mother and I went to go see Must Love Dogs tonight. It was really different,to say the least, but cute nonetheless. It was your average chick flick, complete with John Cusack, who, by the way, graduated from his usual swingin' guy in his 30s movies to a forty-something lead hunk in a romantacom. (Like that word? I just coined it.)
I don't know when I became totally enthralled with movies, but it happened suddenly. After Wedding Crashers it's all been downhill from there. I've seen 3 different movies in the past week. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was sandwhiched between seeing Wedding Crashers umpteen times and Must Love Dogs.
Even the previews have been fantastic! Lookout out for Vince Vaughn's (orgasm) new movie Thumbsucker, where he plays a teacher to a young boy who has a bad case of ADD...And in speaking of totally hot men (Vince Vaughn) Paul Reiser has a new movie coming out! (I'm so being serious right now, the guy is a great lookin' jew!) And lest we forget the 4th Harry Potter is due in November and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride in early fall. (moregasm.)
Back to the feature presentation...
Diane Lane played her usual role, the its-all-becoming-way-too-familiar harried divorcee' on her way to hagdom. Don't get me wrong, she plays the role well, (she played basically the same part in Under the Tuscan Sun although the setting was drastically more European, but I digress) it's just that seeing this figure of a forty-something woman turned suddenly alone/midlife crisis after her unfaithful husband inevitably leaves her for a younger woman, is becoming a bit unnerving.
Are all women destined to marry womanizers who like to trade-in the old for the newer model?
God, it's too sad to even think about.
And of course, (WARNING! SPOILER!) the frail and cynical heroine gets her guy...because, well let's face it, it's the movies. And in the movies, the girl always gets the guy.
The irony here is obvious. People are sucked into movies because of the distinct parallels of the big screen and real life, watching people experience the pain of loss through divorce and the always less than perfect and awkward first dates, but in the movies, it will inevitably work out. And in real life, we have no way of knowing.
Best line from the movie:
There is a guy out there for you who will appreciate all you have to offer.
2 comments:
oh my god, look how big the Harry Potter tots are!
Ah, john cusak
before Vince Vaughn had my heart
he was the original
Kathleen
i saw this and thought of you...
"Women are like apples on trees.
The best ones are at the top of the tree.
Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because
they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead,
they just take the rotten apples from the ground that
aren't as good, but easy.......
The apples at the top think something is wrong with
them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have
to wait for the right man to come along, the one who's
brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the
tree.
To Marissa, a tip top apple
Kathleen
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