Westfeldt may be young, but she's got an old, cynical soul, tempered by a charming romanticism; only she could make «I want to fuck the shit out of you» the most
romantic line in the film.
Not exact matches
In spite of several
lines about how
romantic comedies have given people seriously messed - up expectations about the way the world works, it's unsurprising that Tropper is already working on adapting the book as a feature
film.
The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2)
in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the
film with laughed at anything
in the
film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston
in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting
lines without any sense of meaning
in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male
romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.
A mess of a
film this one.Plot
lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men
in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive, going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft
romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the
film's plot wandering off
in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...
In the long line of romance on the big screen, films usually tend to veer in one of two directions: straight - up romantic comedies, or dramatic, sometimes tragic, love storie
In the long
line of romance on the big screen,
films usually tend to veer
in one of two directions: straight - up romantic comedies, or dramatic, sometimes tragic, love storie
in one of two directions: straight - up
romantic comedies, or dramatic, sometimes tragic, love stories.
Berlanti brings candor and emotion that is more
in line with small screen programming than
in feature
films that can be labeled «
romantic.»