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She's out of my league (2010) Smith
Rise of the metrosexuals
A sensitive love story develops between a mismatched couple. Molly is a hard 10 (Alice Eve) who quit lawyering to do something that will make her more happy. Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is a soft 5 working airport security and recovering moodle. Unfortunately, it's almost as if the filmmakers didn't trust their instincts to allow an audience to find the sensitive film; so they hedged their bets and grafted onto it, some raunchy scenes from your typical adolescent sex comedy.
Some nice things; like Kirk wants to be a pilot, anything involved levitation would be considered as a success to him, and working in the airport, all he has to do is look out a window to be reminded of this secret dream. Some blantant produce placement in the film which normally is a negative thing, but it works for the city of Pittsburgh, in that it shows off all it's best angles, and actually looks like an interesting place to visit.
Each one of the couple is given excellent foils. J.T. Miller and Nate Torrence for Kirk. Although Molly's acid tonqued best friend (Krysten Ritter) is kind of squandered in the film and she steals a lot of the scenes she's in. Take the intimate moment between Molly and Kirk when he confesses an embarassing truth to her. We should be watching them, but we are rivetted on Ritter's open mouthed eavesdropping.
Usually your typical chick flick has a least one scene where all the grrrilfriends get together to drink camomile tea or sip white wine spritzers and talk about their relationsips; their strengths and the weaknesses, offering valid advice to avoid some of the traps and tricks to spice up their relationships, then they talk about how they feel about this advice and how they feel about giving this advice ... Yakety yak yak ... The most interesting thing about this film is that it transposed this same scene into a guy's comedy. The guys hash over his romantic problem. So He's pimped and primed for love by the boys, but not for a relationship, since that isn't in the cards. There is an indefatigable 2 step rule, with no exceptions. An out and out 5 may get a 7, if he's lucky and ambitious or both---but other superior numbers are beyond his ken. Oh yeah, They've all looked in the mirror and given themselves a numerical value based on their ... comeliness. And know their numbers by heart. The film is about Kirk's voyage of discovery until the moment of truth when he stumbles upon an advanced algorithm which, miraculously invalidates the 2 step rule, allowing them to embark on a real relationship together.
Rom com with a few chuckles, if you're interested in a light, low brow comedy, but this is rental material.
She's out of my leaque ~ 7/10
Rise of the metrosexuals
A sensitive love story develops between a mismatched couple. Molly is a hard 10 (Alice Eve) who quit lawyering to do something that will make her more happy. Kirk (Jay Baruchel) is a soft 5 working airport security and recovering moodle. Unfortunately, it's almost as if the filmmakers didn't trust their instincts to allow an audience to find the sensitive film; so they hedged their bets and grafted onto it, some raunchy scenes from your typical adolescent sex comedy.
Some nice things; like Kirk wants to be a pilot, anything involved levitation would be considered as a success to him, and working in the airport, all he has to do is look out a window to be reminded of this secret dream. Some blantant produce placement in the film which normally is a negative thing, but it works for the city of Pittsburgh, in that it shows off all it's best angles, and actually looks like an interesting place to visit.
Each one of the couple is given excellent foils. J.T. Miller and Nate Torrence for Kirk. Although Molly's acid tonqued best friend (Krysten Ritter) is kind of squandered in the film and she steals a lot of the scenes she's in. Take the intimate moment between Molly and Kirk when he confesses an embarassing truth to her. We should be watching them, but we are rivetted on Ritter's open mouthed eavesdropping.
Usually your typical chick flick has a least one scene where all the grrrilfriends get together to drink camomile tea or sip white wine spritzers and talk about their relationsips; their strengths and the weaknesses, offering valid advice to avoid some of the traps and tricks to spice up their relationships, then they talk about how they feel about this advice and how they feel about giving this advice ... Yakety yak yak ... The most interesting thing about this film is that it transposed this same scene into a guy's comedy. The guys hash over his romantic problem. So He's pimped and primed for love by the boys, but not for a relationship, since that isn't in the cards. There is an indefatigable 2 step rule, with no exceptions. An out and out 5 may get a 7, if he's lucky and ambitious or both---but other superior numbers are beyond his ken. Oh yeah, They've all looked in the mirror and given themselves a numerical value based on their ... comeliness. And know their numbers by heart. The film is about Kirk's voyage of discovery until the moment of truth when he stumbles upon an advanced algorithm which, miraculously invalidates the 2 step rule, allowing them to embark on a real relationship together.
Rom com with a few chuckles, if you're interested in a light, low brow comedy, but this is rental material.
She's out of my leaque ~ 7/10