Tonight's Entertainment (It's a Boy Girl Thing and Letters to Juliet)

IT'S A BOY GIRL THING

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482527/

This is a weird one. If you hadn't told me this was basically a Canadian movie, I think I would have been able to guess it. It was sweet and endearing and funny and romantic at parts but it also had a lot of black humour and overt OVERT sexual innuendo that probably wouldn't be acceptable in mainstream American romcom. I'm talking boners in asses (not anal sex, think getting physical while helping someone with their golf swing). I give it 3 stars because, while it was funny and smart, it was also not what I was looking for. I buy into the absolute Hollywood stereotype. The cliches. The really irresistable guy. The sexual tension. The goodlooking actors (both leads in this movie were pretty much stunning but in a non-Hollywood way).

Regardless, give it a go. It's different but good.

LETTERS TO JULIET

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892318/

Um, note to self: never watch this movie again. SERIOUS bollocks. It's not even good for eye-candy; the male lead is reasonably goodlooking but he lacks charisma and charm in all departments. His character was meant to be that kind of aloof guy who gets off on the wrong foot with the female lead (I love Amanda but gurl...) but it was just done poorly and I didn't like him at all. Even as a goodlooking guy, I couldn't appreciate it past the shitty acting.

Mr. Darcy is THE archetype of the aloof guy who gets off on the wrong foot with the female lead but I still cream myself every fucking time for that fucker. Not the case in this movie.

I give this movie 1 star. Avoid at all costs, folks.

J