Thursday, February 04, 2021

Thursday Movie Picks: Fake Relationships (Romance Tropes Edition)

 

For the fifth week of 2021 as part of Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. We go into the Romance Tropes Edition of the series by focusing on the subject of fake relationships. It’s a common trope that allow two people to be together for some scheme or to make someone jealous and such. Here are my three picks:

1. The Wedding Date
This rom-com starring Debra Messing, Dermont Mulroney, and Amy Adams is a delightful, harmless film where Messing travels to London to celebrate Adams’ wedding yet the groom’s best man is her cheating ex-boyfriend as she hires an escort in Mulroney to be her date. It’s a film that has some nice moments as well as a lot of attraction with Mulroney being the straight man and Messing also displaying some charm while Adams and Sarah Parish as their British cousin TJ are standouts in a film that is better than a lot of rom-coms and didn’t deserve the harsh reviews it received from critics.

2. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
When you have a film starring Adam Sandler, it’s often that it’s not going to be good and this one is no exception as one would’ve expected that the film which was co-written by Alexander Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor to be good yet their work was badly re-written by Sandler and his cohorts. It has Sandler helping out his fellow firefighter friend in Kevin James by marrying him so that he can get insurance including healthcare for the latter’s kids. It unfortunately caters to the lowest common denominator in terms of its humor that includes Rob Schneider as an Asian yet the saving grace of that film is Ving Rhames as another firefighter with some serious anger issues largely due to the secret that he’s carrying.

3. The Proposal
Starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is this fun film where Bullock plays the latter’s boss as she learns she is to be deported back to Canada as she asks Reynolds to be engaged to her as he is set to go back home to Alaska as it’s revealed that he’s from a rich family. It’s a film that has charm with Bullock and Reynolds displaying some nice chemistry yet the real scene-stealer in that film is Betty White as the latter’s grandmother who is a joy to watch. It’s a harmless film that does what it needed to do yet does bring in the laughs.

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8 comments:

  1. Brittani Burnham6:23 PM

    All three of these were pretty popular this week! I've seen them but wasn't really invested in any.

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  2. SJHoneywell6:01 AM

    My wife loves The Proposal. It was in constant (and I mean weekly at least) rotation in my house a few years ago.

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  3. Ruth10:53 AM

    I just rewatched parts of The Proposal last year, it's a fun movie and yes, Betty White is the scene stealer, love her!!

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  4. Sonia Cerca12:21 PM

    I'm still having a hard time believing they actually made that Adam Sandler movie. What a disgrace.

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  5. Birgit8:22 PM

    We match with the Proposal which is the film choice for almost everyone this week. Chuck and Larry looks funny but I feel like I saw this film done in French before this one but I can’t find it. I know it didn’t take place with firefighters but the premise is there.

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  6. Katy7:59 AM

    I can't believe Adam Sandler has maintained a career after some of the stereotypes and cringe-worthy humor he's tried. I wasn't a big fan of The Proposal, but I remember liking The Wedding Date when I saw it. Totally forgot Amy Adams was in it too.

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  7. Often Off Topic1:19 AM

    Betty White is absolutely brilliant in The Proposal. I was obsessed with that movie years ago and watched a lot of interviews and behind the scenes footage and Betty was so funny!

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  8. thevoid992:56 PM

    @Brittani-I couldn't come up with any radical or out there ideas for this subject.

    @SJHoneywell-Does she like anything else?

    @Ruth-Betty White can read a phone book and make insults for 2 hours and I would still watch it.

    @Sonia-Yeah, that was a terrible movie and I can't blame Alexander Payne for disowning it despite Ving Rhames.

    @Birgit-Actually, it wasn't a remake. It was a completely original thing that Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor were asked to take part in only for Sandler and his goons to ruin it.

    @Katy-The Wedding Date I feel is just harmless fun. Plus, Amy Adams was adorable then.

    @Often Off Topic-Betty White is a fucking treasure and we must protect it.

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