OK, So I know I told you that I have been in a serious Romantic Comedy stage due to the house that I live in with 63 other girls; and this post is no exception. I'm moving out soon, so I guess I will have to wait until then to return to my favorites of suspense and history; until then Father of the Bride it is.
Not that I'm really complaining. After this movie, I kind of went into a wedding frenzy, looking up wedding websites and bridesmaids dresses and color schemes. My friend introduced me to this website: Green Wedding Shoes. Check it out. It's not that I want to get married, I just want to go to a wedding; it's the whole wearing a pretty dress and getting all dressed up thing that girls like (if you're a girl you will understand, and if you're a guy, you'll witness it someday).
Anyways, Father of the Bride is a great story about one man's love for his daughter and how he isn't ready for her to move onto another man just quite yet and get married. He is absolutely obsessed with her, she's his little girl; he's also obsessed with being cheap and not spending a lot of money on the wedding.
Of course Steve Martin is hilarious and takes part in a lot of obvious humour during the film, including falling into the in-laws pool after snooping upstairs in the Father of the Groom's office. There is also a hilarious character, Franck, played by Martin Short. Franck is the stereotypical foreign wedding planner who no one can understand and does everything the most extravagant way possible, including having swans in the front yard. The moments between Franck and George Banks (Steve Martin) are absolutely hilarious; the contrast between the two characters really adds humor to the movie.
One thing that is super precious about this movie is the relationship between George and his daughter Annie. She is a complete daddy's girl and in the end he will do anything to make her happy; it's the relationship that every girl dreams of having with her father (it is actually the relationship that I have with my father, which may be why I love this movie so much).
In the end, George realizes that he needs to let go of his daughter and let her have her own life. Definitely precious.
One of the funny things about watching this movie in today's time, twenty years later, is the clothes. They are so 90's and even have a little touch of the 80's in there. The hair is big, the wedding dress is poofy, the more ornate the better. It's funny to look back and see the cell phones that they used and the cars that they drive.
One thing that is even better about this movie is the house. It is the iconic family home that wives have dreamed of raising their families in for decades. Having seen this house in person only a few months ago (it's only about 20 minutes from where I live, super cool I know), it looks exactly the same. Like a moment stuck in time, a house that has been housing perfect functional families, many Sunday night dinners and birthday parties for decades.
A girl can dream right? Until next time, go play some basketball with your dad, Father of the Bride style. Hey, you might even win (If you do it's because he is letting you).
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.
