Think most romantic comedies were put together on a paper napkin a Sunday afternoon around a cup of coffee? Well I have better for you. When In Rome is a movie that appears to have been put together on-the-fly during production. Based on an incredibly silly, absurd, and random script, this “romantic comedy” [...]
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Movie Review: Great Expectations (1998)
An Americanized adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved dark novel, Great Expectations is a romantic drama directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. Greatly simplified by focusing only on the essential characters and events, this film is a stylish contemporary version [...]
Movie Review: The Good Guy (2009)
Mix some romantic drama into Wall Street (1987) and you may end up with a movie like The Good Guy. Julio DiPietro, a former investment banker turned writer-director, is obviously quite familiar with the territory as he lingers into the apparent dynamics of Wall Street trading just as much as he does into in the romantic aspects of the love triangle at the center of this movie.
Movie Review: Days of Heaven (1978)
A Terrence Malick romantic drama, Days of Heaven is a film so visually lush that it has become legendary mainly for Nestor Almendros’s and Haskell Wesler’s Oscar-winning cinematography. It is so strikingly beautiful that nearly every single frame is a piece of art that could be displayed in a museum exhibit.
Movie Review: Just Like Heaven (2005)
The kind of fluffy romantic comedy that Reese Witherspoon can usually open in her sleep, Just Like Heaven is a pleasantly above average movie directed by Mark Waters (Mean Girls). An adaptation based on Marc Levy’s novel “If Only It Were True”, it relies on the supernatural premise of two people being separated by death before they even meet.
Movie Review: The Proposal (2009)
A classic Sandra Bullock vehicle, The Proposal is a textbook romantic comedy that manages to hit every possible cliches of the genre despite starting out with a refreshing premise and getting good chemistry between its two co-stars.
Movie Review: Badlands (1973)
Badlands (1973), written, produced and directed by the legendary Terrence Malick, is the director’s masterful first feature. The extraordinarily reclusive director –his contracts stipulate that no pictures of him are to be taken– went on to make the superb Days of Heaven (1978) afterward before disappearing off the circulation for 20 years and coming back with the highly acclaimed The Thin Red Line (1998).
Movie Review: Leap Year (2010)
Once in a while, you watch a movie even though you know it is likely to be terrible. You watch it only so you can tear into it in the review (any movie blogger cares to confirm this practice?), Leap Year is one of those movies. Sure, it stars the consistently awesome Amy Adams who still manages to shine even when covered in mud. However, the only leap I wanted to make while seeing this was through the 2nd floor window into the concrete slab below. This movie is another example that romantic comedies are getting worse and worse.
