Love and Other Drugs

What's up buffs (as in movie buffs, duh!) ?! So a few days ago, my friends and I converted our living room into a hipster movie theatre. We got a projector and played Love and Other Drugs on one of the walls in our living room; we brought in blankets and pillows and got comfy on the floor and sank into the world of Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and her struggle with Parkinson's disease. While at first we thought that this idea was genius, we soon discovered that Love and Other Drugs was probably not the best movie to project onto a large screen where passersby can easily see what's going on in the movie. If you've seen it, then you should know what I'm talking about, but if you haven't, well you haven't and then you won't know what I'm talking about.


I'll explain.

Love and Other Drugs is a love story about a man who is a notorious player and womanizer who falls in love with a woman who has Parkinson's disease. This and that happens, and they have a lot of sex. And when I say a lot, I mean a LOT. About 80 percent of the movie, they are either having sex, about to have sex, or have just finished having sex. About another 75 percent of the movie, there is nudity. Not gonna lie, I'm not really complaining about seeing a little more of Jake Gyllenhaal, but there were a lot of times when the nudity was uneccessary and a little distracting from the plot (or maybe that was the point because the plot wasn't all to write home about).

Overall, the movie was pretty good. It was more interesting and less predictable than other rom-com's (Romantic Comedies if you live under a rock) that I've seen, but they still end up together in the end, what a big suprise. It was really cute how he stayed with her even after he learned how horrible Parkinson's affects are on the patient. It gave a little bit of hope that in this crappy world today, where love is originated and cultivated through social media sites and text messages, something organic can still happen. Alright, I know I just got a little sentimental, but a girl can dream about true love right?


The chemistry between Gyllenhaal and Hathaway was actually believable. They aren't two actors that I would have paired together originally, but what they had really worked with the story and the plotline. I kind of liked that they were mismatched, it made the story more realistic.

All of the friends that I was watching the movie with had some different opinions of the film. Some thought that the excessive sex and nudity was completely distracting and took away from the story way too much for it to have any affect on the audience. Other friends, the more sentimental "I live for love" ones, were sooo into it. They were actually gushing with love and endearment, but that really isn't saying much because they gush with love and endearment watching The Office.

Anyways, it was a good movie. Not one of the best, but definitely good- i don't regret watching it, so that should tell you something. Check it out if you wish, only I wouldn't recommend watching it with a projector on your living room wall where people are going to walk by and see Ann Hathaway obviously and very indiscretely indisposed.


Until next time, go hang out with your friends, they miss you.