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License to Wed (2007)
Only movie I ever walked out on in my life
This movie was just plain bad. But since I'm bothering to write this, I should go into more detail than that, right? This movie was tacky and offensive, all the more tragic because of the hilarity potential of Robin Williams and the likability potential of Mandy Moore and Jon Krasinski. Synopsis: Two cuties get together. (Aw, sweet.) Then comes the messed up marital counselling of Moore's bizarro pastor, played by Robin Williams. Williams, in all his ridiculous antics, is aided and abetted by a creepy little kid (sorry, no offense meant to the child actor playing the kid -- I'm sure the creepiness was all in the role) who tries to be cutely precocious, but basically comes off as an annoying, know-it-all, creepy, snot-nosed little brat. I only watched half an hour into the movie because it was so cringe-inducing, distasteful, unfunny and insulting to relationships. I walked out and caught the last half of The Brave One. Unless you are amused by bathroom humour, skip it. You will thank me.
Parlez-moi d'amour (2005)
Beautiful movie... makes you believe in love
I loved, loved, loved this movie! (For the record, I caught it a bit after it had already started.) The movie tells two love stories, one of a young couple, the other of an older couple. The young man and woman are instantly smitten, one with the other. The older man and woman, not so much. They start out antagonists, the woman trying to save her art institute and the man, ready to take it apart. These two end up anonymously corresponding with one another and falling in love through the post. A lot of what occurs in this movie, the way the two love stories intertwine and play out, is based on coincidence (which I loved). It's a beautiful and touching story.
Bottom line: see it, you won't regret it.
Ha-Shiva MeHodu (2002)
Don't bother wasting your time
Waste of time. Really awful. Terrible acting -- Riki Gal, I'm talking to you. I don't know how much the film deviated from the book, but the story was completely unbelievable, especially with Riki Gal and Aki Avni as their respective characters and together as a couple. (I actually am fond of Aki Avni, who, I thought, was pretty good in Tironut.) We're supposed to believe that a mother, in order to spend more alone time with the hot young doctor, would abandon her almost dying daughter time and time again? That this doctor obsesses over this pathetic excuse for a mother? I don't know how it ends because I couldn't possibly watch any more. Don't waste your time on it.