Day 16: Sleepless in Seattle

Well now we've come to one of the great classics! I'm surprised to say its been a long time since I've seen this movie. I can't really say why, other than its probably the same reason I haven't seen When Harry Met Sally in a very long time: I saw this movie so much, I actually got a little sick of it. But I think time and my bad memory have helped me to place this back on the shelf of rewatchable RC's. I get weepy when I see this movie. I don't know anyone who doesn't like this movie. I don't think I want to... here we go, how the lovely, perfect Sleepless in Seattle checks off on my list:

• Giddy: From the moment she starts to listen to him on the radio till she meets him on top of the Empire State Building (which, my husband, knowing my deep deep love for these gigantic romantic moments chose the same place to pop the question to me... he gets double points for that one!).
  
• Lie: Well.... she's keeping the truth from her fiance. That's sort of one. Can't say I think that there is really that much lying going on. I don't care, do you?
  
• Big Emotional Outburst: Tom and his kid, and Meg has some major breakdowns on her own, but when they finally meet, really meet, it's the calmest scene ever. Its like a big deep breath in and out and ahhhhhhh... finally we have found the one that fits.
  
• Dance Sequence: Nope. I think that we could have used one actually. But the music is fantastic!
  
• Wedding: Nope... but we do have a lovely wedding dress! Which she rips. Because its a sign. I love the SIGNS in this movie!
  
• Rewatchable: Yes.. We covered that.
  
• Love: Here we have the destiny love! Actually what I really love about this movie is that there are more than one kind. That we are allowed to love more than one person in our life and that each one though different is not less special. But this love, this wonderful Meg/Tom love is that destiny love. The kind you know of from the moment you hear their voice, and though they spend the majority of the movie trying to talk some sense into themselves, the fact is, it can not be denied.
  
• Fantasy: Destiny love, trips across the country all on a hunch from hearing a voice or reading a letter that this person might be right for you...
  
• Journey of the main character: The whole movie is in that gigantic stage of doubt until the end when it all suddenly becomes so clear.
  
• Body Count: His first wife.
  
• Music Montages: Some great ones
  
• Strong Female: Hrmm.. she's not my strongest female. Meg usually isn't in her films. Maybe that's why she is universally loved, she's never really too strong and never really a total wimp either. She's the just right goldilocks. I'm a militant feminist so I tend to like my women a bit more dominant but you can't help but love Meg! And we do have a funny Rosie to bring in a bit more of the stronger side.
  

PS: To Laura who asked about my job, my boss kicks ass- and I know how to hit pause and act professional for the customers. ;)

Day 15: Joe Versus The Volcano

Day 15: Joe Versus The Volcano

John Patrick Shanley is in my books a genius. Mix in my favorite queen and king of romantic comedies, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, a silly plot and the worst puppet shark I’ve ever seen (except the Goonies octopus – which I saw- which you probably didn’t, but if you go back and rent it you can see it in the deleted scenes and no why that scene should never see the light of day) and you have yourself a PERFECT MOVIE!
I think this might be a bit hard for me to write about as this, like Goonies, is such a childhood favorite I can’t possibly talk about this like a normal human being. Well, I think I have shown myself already to be pretty abnormal so what the heck right? I love LOVE This Movie! And I don’t care if I’m the only one on the planet who does (actually I think I may have one or two others in my boat but judging by the rolled eyes of my coworkers, I know I am at least in a minority here). Yes this movie is CHEESY! Yes this movie has some horrible special affects. Yes this movie has Meg Ryan in 2 baaaad wigs. But this movie has some incredible music, lots of visually and symbolically beautiful scenes, a great sense of humor and one of the best moral lessons ever: Get a Second Opinion on a Brain Cloud Diagnosis. Look, like my duck blanket and my puppy, this is a piece of my heart that you can have your own opinions about all you want, but I LOVE THEM and that’s all there is to it! Here’s how Joe Versus the Volcano checks off on my list:

• Giddy: Every damn scene!
• Lie: Lloyde Bridges and Robert Stack both convince Tom Hanks that he has a brain cloud and is going to die anyway so why not jump into a giant Volcano. That’s one big lie!
• Big Emotional Outburst: I can’t tell you how many times I have seen the scene at the top of the volcano with Meg and Tom professing their love, but I never get sick of it!
• Dance Sequence: The lonely, awkward Tom dances to Buddy Holly on top of the floating luggage. Sigh – I dance the same way at home alone.
• Wedding: Yes, on top of the volcano with the soon to be extinct Waponi Woo’s.
• Rewatchable: Well, lets put it this way, if I can say the lines as they’re saying them though every scene, yeah we got a rewatchable. I think there are maybe 3 movies that I can say that’s true about and this is one of them.
• Love: I would like to believe this one falls under the category of love at first site. Mmmmm… can you hear it? My heart is melting just a little.
• Fantasy: We have a brain cloud, a rich man who swoops in and gives you a gigantic spending spree before you are to die, an ocean voyage, a typhoon, a Hawaiian like island, a volcano and love that keeps you afloat (along with great luggage).
• Journey of the main character: The rediscovery that life is beautiful is a wonderful tale that I love having told to me. We all get bogged down in jobs that suck, stressful situations, and life can for a while look bleak and bland and then suddenly you get a wake up call to all the beauty and abundance there is in this world that is out there for you. Like Joe says “Dear God, thank you for my life, I forgot how big it all is”.
• Body Count: And here we have not only 3 shipmates on the Tweedle Dee but an entire ISLAND! That’s right folks, this Romantic Comedy has mass genocide in it!
• Music Montages: Dom Dom Dom Dom Dom bee doo bee Dom Dom Dom Dom Dom, Dom bee doo bee dom – wa wa wa wa wa… ur… I mean – Buddy Holly during the fishing scene.
• Strong Female: She says it her self folks when he asks her if she believes in God and she says “I believe in myself, I have confidence in myself”.

Day 14: 27 Dresses

Day 14: 27 Dresses

I feel like a kid in a candy store with a pocketful of cash! 27 Dresses is the closest I’m going to come to living out my dream of having 100 weddings! And though, I would probably tell my fellow actors that the costume designer has gone overboard here (blatant bad taste in the bridesmaids dresses and why does Ms. Heigl always have to be in flower prints?), I admit to you dear reader, I LOVE almost every scene in this movie! Weddings, Weddings, Weddings and all the best parts about them (and humiliating – I’ve held 2 wedding dresses while my lovely lady friends peed, been there and oh can I relate!). Once again we have great side characters (well except the sister – who I don’t know if this is a personal grudge or not – but I HATE her- she is one the worst actresses I’ve ever seen and she makes me feel as if I’ve lost brain cells just watching her try and act). But this is one, I don’t care about the plot or the characters at all, just give me more DRESSES! YES!!! Oh and we have so many great embarrassing moments too! By the end of this movie, I’m like that kid drunk on sugar, I’m laying back, half giggling, half shocked I ate all that and pretty sure a stomach ache is around the corner. Here is how 27 Dresses checks off on my list:
• Giddy: Oh hell yeah! We have lots to be giddy about! The dresses, the weddings, the moment she realizes the one she wants and leaps onto a boat to crash another wedding and publicly declare it, the singing at the bar, the dresses, pretty much every line out of the mouth of her best friend (Judy Greer) such as “Are you kidding, the only reason to wear this monstrous dress is to have some drunken groomsman rip it to shreds with his teeth”, Katherine Heigl saying in that oh so pained way “I feel like I just found out my favorite love song was written about a sandwich”, James Marsden saying “Get over here”, and did I mention the dresses?
• Lie: Well, the terrible actress sister is lying her boobies off, then there’s Mr. Marsden sort of lying that he’s not Ms. Heigl’s favorite journalist, and Ms. Heigl’s been hiding the whole time how in love she is with her boss.
• Big Emotional Outburst: Oh yes!
• Dance Sequence: Besides all the wedding dances (my FAVORITE) we also have the Benny and the Jets song and dance. I have to admit, until this movie, I never thought of this as a song to sing at the top of your lungs on top of a bar. Now the theme to Greatest American Hero… yes of course… but Benny and the Jets? Well… they pull it off.
• Wedding: YES! SO MANY I LOST COUNT!!!!!
• Rewatchable: Yes. YES! YES! (I’m saying it in the When Harry Met Sally way – and you’re saying as you read this “I’ll have what she’s having”)
• Love: Ah let me point out another of my favorite myths that are ultimate truths in the RC world: The kiss tells everything (Hitch actually makes fun of this point). Here once again, the absolute right guy for her is all wrong and we know because they kiss and there is no spark. The wrong guy for her is actually the right one. I love this simple way at looking at life. I really wish it was that simple!
• Fantasy: Well once again, we’re in NYC with FABULOUS huge apartments in Dumbo, we have great jobs for eco friendly companies, we have all these really expensive weddings, and a man who gives FLOWERS all the time! Which, I have to tell you this: as me and my co-workers are all crowded around my computer watching this movie, we all equally start complaining about how we never get flowers and how we all want them! And then I go home and for the first time I think in 8 years, my husband actually surprised me with FLOWERS! Whoa!
• Journey of the Main Character: She is weak, she is run over by everyone in this film, everybody takes advantage of her and she allows it for some inexplicable reason (actually she reminds me a lot of a cousin of mine) and all of a sudden she flips and starts to stand up for herself. I would too if I had a sister who ripped up our mothers wedding dress. I’m so glad I don’t have a sister! Especially one that is that bad of an actress!
• Body Count: Nope- but guess what I DON’T CARE CAUSE THIS MOVIE HAS A TON OF WEDDINGS IN IT!
• Music Montages: erm… I think so… I’m sorry I’m still high on all those weddings, I can’t remember.
• Strong Female: Well she starts on the path to becoming one…

Day 13: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Day 13: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Weee! I love this movie! I’m a sucker for films that are re-imaginings of classic themes (like 10 Things I hate about you is a spin off of Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew). One of the reasons I love a good Romantic Comedy is because the plots are so predictable, and when you mix in a classic as well, it’s double the pleasure! I forced my poor guy best friend to see this film with me in the theatres – yes the THEATRES! And I loved it then. The good way to try and hook a man into seeing this one with you, is dangling the Michael Douglas carrot in front of them. And he is a riot in this film, with great lines like “Hows your Dick-tation”, “An ugly broad you have to take out behind a shed and shoot but any guy with a Johnson can still be cool” and “You made your bed, now you gotta bang every thing that crawls in it”.

Only on Day 13 and yeah I’m really starting to notice how all the same actors, do the same things, in the same movies with just different titles over and over again but I don’t care, because it just makes the slight variations of each film that much sweeter. And the chemistry between these actors is always different and this allows for multiple butterflies to go jumping in my stomach with each new kiss, each new profession of love.

I have dreamed since a small child that one day I would be one of these queens of RC land. And though, I may have to finally admit that I am no queen but always the side character (or keeping with the kingdom vernacular: The Jester), I can still take comfort in hoping to be in one of these films because no great RC is complete without the side characters. And in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, we have a slew of GREAT side characters. Of course we have Mr. Douglas, but the perfect Jewish Princess Lacey Chabert is a scene stealer as well, the fantastic Emma Stone who I can not say enough about, and then you have the yummy, ultra perfect, “designated wedding sex” Daniel Sunjata who does such a good job at being great you spend the whole movie wondering why the hell Jennifer Garner would even bother with a guy like Matthew McConaughey.

So here is how this great movie checks off on my list of necessities for a romantic comedy:

• Giddy: Oh yes, strangely Matthews extremely cheesy lines and sleezy acting makes me giddy, I don’t know why- look I know I’m weird. Why on earth do you think my friend made me make this blog about my obsession with RC’s? I’m weird and he wants to publicly laugh at it! Also, I went giddy over the lady tears scene, the “You gotta risk love” monologue, the wedding, the “Gay Pirate” line, the sexy dance scene… oh I could go on, I’ll sum up – MOST of this movie makes me Giddy!
• Lie: Well he’s been lying to himself for years by saying that “Power in a relationship lies with whomever cares the least” and striving to believe it. But other than that… we only have a small uncovering of his brother sleeping with one of the bridesmaids.
• Big Emotional Outburst: Oh my god, I LOVE the scene where he begs his future sister in law to risk love and go back to his brother.
• Dance Sequence: Once again, we have some lovely 80’s dancing and then we have a wonderful scene with Jennifer and Daniel (WHY didn’t she choose this guy?!).
• Wedding: YAY! We actually have 2! Both BEAUTIFUL! Both just lovely weddings – I wish mine was that nice!
• Rewatchable: Oh yes yes yes yes yes!
• Love: Well, though I really think she’s an idiot because the best guy for her is Daniel she loves Matthew because she sees him for what he “CAN” be instead of what he is. Ah that great kind of “I can CHANGE YOU” love… one of my favorite kinds which leads right into our next part of the check list:
• Fantasy: Well, anyone who believes in that “I can Change You” love is in fantasyland alone but we have 2 more WONDERFUL Fantasy treats: 1. VERY RICH UNCLE and VERY RICH PEOPLE all of them, must be nice! But at least the great thing about rich people in movies is we get to live in their world for 2 hours and see all the beauty they take for granted. And 2. The Ghosts! The chance to look back on your life and see it from a fresh angle and to see people talk about you when you are not around.
• Journey of the Main Character: Classic Dickens! In one night he discovers the error of his ways and vows to change it around.
• Body Count: As close as I can tell we have 4. Definitely the Uncle and the Parents. But they don’t really explain what happened to his first, I’m guessing she died as well.
• Music Montages: One of my favorites of all time! With a tongue n cheek style they have a great montage of the Wooing days.
• Strong Female: Subtly Jennifer Garner knows what she wants and doesn’t put up with crap. She’s is surrounded by a bunch of flimsy-ego chicks who are bit pathetic but she’s a beacon.

Day 12: Hope Floats

Day 12: Hope Floats

Okay Day 12 gets some definite mixed reviews in my book. There are moments in Hope Floats that I just feel all gooey and absolutely love, there are some all too real scenes like where the kid is begging the dad to take her with him that make me weep and thus do NOT fall in my category of RC and then there are some of the dumbest dissolves that I thought for sure the director or editor’s are on crack when they made this right? So, this movie is just all over the place for me. I have some friends (and now coworkers) with very strong opinions for and against this movie and I must say, I just feel sort of "eh" about it.

Lets just get right to my list hmm?

• Giddy: We have some great giddy moments here, like the dancing “Dancing is just a conversation between two people…talk to me”, and pretty much anytime Harry Connick enters the screen, not to mention that over the top cheesy end where she sees the one clear picture of him standing there with flowers.

• Lies: No lies.
• Big Emotional Outbursts: We have them here. The scene with the daughter begging for her dad, that scene rips me up, but to be honest somehow doesn’t belong in this movie.
• Dance Sequence: We have the mom trying to cheer up the daughter and the sizzling scene on the dance floor with Harry and Sandra.
• Wedding: No. boo.
• Rewatchable: Yeah but probably after all 30 other movies I now I own J
• Love: Ah well… there is supposed to be this great love with Sandra and Harry but honestly, all I see is a guy pining over a girl that isn’t ready to love him. And then she just changes her mind after seeing a picture of him at work. Hmm.. I needed a bit more.
• Fantasy: It being set in a small town in the south can be sort of a fantasical setting for some.. I grew up in the South… so not really for me.
• Journey of the Main Character: She has to come to like herself and accept what’s been thrown at her. Do I believe I see this transition… well…
• Body Count: 1! The Grandma dies. And MAN was she cool!
• Music Montages: There are a ton in this film but I’m not crazy about the songs so…
• Strong Female: The Grandma definitely is. And well… I think that is the goal for Sandra’s character, to become strong and independent.

Day 11: Gross Point Blank

Day 11: Gross Point Blank

And this is what I’m talking about! Finally we have a body count in a cute, funny romantic comedy! I adore Gross Point Blank. This is the perfect mix of an action movie and an RC. Its funny, dark, sexy at times and has a fantastic soundtrack! Lets check this one off shall we?

• Giddy: There are some great ones here: the first time they see each other again how they kiss, the holding of the little baby Robbie at the reunion, the way he runs to save her Dad from being offed, and oh dear lord just them even playing the song “Let My Love Open the Door”. Great lines abound as well: “Its just as if everyone had swelled” when talking about their reunion, “If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you its.. well.. broken”, “You need a swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever”, “People say to forgive and forget, I say forget forgiving and learn to accept”.
• Lie: Nope, not really, part of the great humor of this piece is that he’s telling the truth to everyone but no one believes him.
• Big Emotional Outburst: There is nothing like a man screaming he’s in love with you when he has a gun in one hand, blood all over himself and a frying pan that he’s beaten a man to death with in the other. That’s love!
• Dance Sequence: The dancing at the reunion is okay- just a little embarrassing to be reminded how much white people 80’s dancing sucks.
• Wedding: We don’t have a wedding but we have a Wedding dress – which I still haven’t been able to figure out why they are there at their reunion in their wedding dress? Who gets married at their reunion? I smell a dick producer move where some producer said “You know statistically girls like to see wedding dresses in romantic comedies and don’t like to see blood so if you are going to have this much blood we need a wedding dress”. But no one explains why these 2 extras show up dressed up, its sort of just accepted, and we move on.
• Rewatchable: Yes! Yes! Yes!
• Love: Oh this love is eternal! It saves his soul, it causes him to dream of her night after night. It’s that kind of love – that kind my parents have – that kind where you meet the person wayyyy early on in life and they are just always going to be the one. Highschool sweetheart kind of love. Verrrrrrrry romantic!
• Fantasy: Sexy, brilliant man freaks out one night and finds out he’s actually perfect fit to be a trained assassin, comes back for the love of his life into sweet town and gets her back… yeah I’m saying the fantasy is pretty strong in this one too.
• Journey of the main character: Here I believe we have quite a journey, the start of a man growing a conscience over the lives he’s taken. That’s pretty deep but it’s kept light with funny side characters and love, beautiful, great chemistry love.
• BODY COUNT: 15! 6 of which are in the first minute! YAY!!!! Seriously there is nothing like a good body count when you are frustrated with your own life.
• Music Montages: I don’t quite remember there being one, but there are definitely great background songs. I was watching this movie on my computer at work and suddenly from the other room I hear one of my coworkers scream I LOVE THAT SONG!
• Strong Female: Oh yes Minnie Driver is AMAZING! Strong, cool, funny, goofy. I want to be her when I grow up. Seriously!

Days 8-10: RC OD

Days 8-10 RC-OD

So Tuesday was my “Saturday” and I decided to slap in Day 8 while I cleaned. Feeling mildly depressed after a emotionally manipulative Christmas with my inlaws and a looming 34^th birthday I was in need of a little TLC that only RC’s can provide. But Day 8 did not succeed in bringing me out of my funk, ironically it sunk me deeper. RC’s are usually a wonderful escape, except on those rare days when all the emotions I’m currently trying to avoid are being played out on the screen. So Day 8 was Knocked Up. And instead of laughing and enjoying myself as I did the chores about the house, I stood several times in front of the tv crying and questioning my pathetic achievements so far in life. This is a film I usually love to watch, the guy flick that is really a chick flick, but today I couldn’t sink into it without inward reflection. Needless to say, I hadn’t gotten too much done and so I decided at the end, to plop in Day 9. Surely Day 9 would get me out of my funk, back into my fantasy land. Day 9 was Princess Diaries. And that was sufficient background for more of my chores. Having seen this movie a dozen times (I was practically born in Disney World – all Disney films are great to me), I could happily go about my work knowing all would be right in the world again. And then I started to think about what the movie is really saying and that is always a bad idea, to think too much about an RC. But I did, and I once again started comparing myself to this awkward teenage girl who is blossoming into a princess and I am looking at my pathetic 34-year-old-to-be self and not liking the not-so-princess I turned out to be. So… of course… like a true crack addict – it’s obviously not me, but the movies that aren’t giving me a sufficient high and so I must watch another one because surely this next one will make me feel all giddy and gooey again like the first time I saw Pretty Woman and then I can get on to the task of taking down that friggin Christmas tree! So Day 10 was plopped in as soon as the credits started to roll on Day 9. Day 10: America’s Sweethearts. Ahhhh! Somebody shoot me! I love this movie too usually but my god- it’s all about being famous actors and actresses and how you need to lose 60 pounds to get someone you love to love you back or even just notice you. And well…as you can see, by this point in the day (though never once did I stop a movie mid way through- they each had to play out in their entirety) I was a lost cause and no RC was going to help. I finished America’s Sweethearts, a sniveling, self-pitying mess and curled up on the couch to nap. I woke up, took out the majority of my frustrations on my poor husband and then took a hot bath. I had over dosed on RCs so the next day I took a break from the movies.

So, trying to not let me pathetic breakdown get in the way of my checklist, though I guarantee NOTHING… Here we are, how these 3 movies check off on my list:

Day 8: Knocked Up

• Giddy: I usually get giddy anytime I see man get happy about having a baby.
• Lie: Well, the lies aren’t really too big in this movie, there is a little sideline one going on with one my favorite actors Paul Rudd and it leads to a very honest look at the need for alone time.
• Big Emotional Outburst: There are quite a few these and they are hilarious!
• Dance Sequence: Nope. Boo. But them trying to get into a club is hysterical!
• Wedding: THAT’s what this movie is missing. There is a very sweet proposal though.
• Rewatchable: Yes… but after Tuesday’s fiasco, I may wait a bit.
• Love: This has the more real kinds of love here, that ever questioning “are they THE ONE” looming over the heads of the 4 main characters here. Bleh, real love? Bleh!
• Fantasy: Depending on my mood, I’d sometimes tell you the major fantasy here is a man getting happy and changing his life around for a baby or the fact that these two clearly opposite people could end up liking each other at all. But I know that’s coming from my bitter side, so I’ll just say no there aren’t too many fantasies here.
• Journey of the Main Character: They both go from not liking each other and not even thinking about a kid to liking each other and having one. That’s nice.
• Body Count: None. I really could have used some on Tuesday.
• Music Montages: None that I remember through the pathetic weeping I was doing. I think there might have been one showing the growth of Seth’s character from boy to man who actually reads the baby books.
• Strong Female: Yes. Both women I think are strong with the very real flaws and conflicts women generally face: Career vs. baby.

Day 9: The Princess Diaries

• Giddy: Typically I get a little giddy every time I hear that Disney sound and see Tinkerbell fly across my screen. I also get a little gooey each time she has a fantasy about being kissed and the hint at a much deeper passion between Hector and Julie.
• Lie: Well she was lied to from birth that she was a princess, and then she tried to hide it from her best friend once she found out.
• Big Emotional Outburst: Oh we have some classics with “I am throwing your charm friendship bracelet in the gutter” and the end speech where she takes the crown.
• Dance Sequence: Oh isn’t this wonderful! We have several! Yay! My favorite is the one between the chauffer and the Queen but I also enjoy the ridiculous stupid cupid song done at a beach bash that rivals some classics like Back to the Beach and One Crazy Summer.
• Wedding: Again no. Hmm. No wonder I was so angry on Tuesday. There are some really lovely ball gowns though.
• Rewatchable: Yes, yes of course. Disney has a hold on me, I can’t help it. I should hate Disney, but I can’t it’s just so fakely good and wholesome!
• Love: We have the Grandma/Daughter love, the love for country, and then the “oh you’re my best friend’s brother, I never noticed you there before but oh wait I think I love you” love.
• Fantasy: She finds out she’s a princess of a small but quaint little European country. Fantasy level is at its highest.
• Journey of the Main Character: I love this transformation from the awkward unsure girl to a lovely woman to be. And the scene with Palo the hairdresser to making her physically go through this journey is a riot. Especially because he makes her look like a whore.
• Body Count: This movie begins because the dad died… leaving the country to her… that’s 1!
• Music Montages: Yes. Lovely.
• Strong Female: This is the beginnings of a strong female with the overseeing done by a mother and grandmother who are both pretty darn strong and independent. Good role models all the way around! Yay Disney!

Day 10: America’s Sweethearts

• Giddy: This one doesn’t set off the fireworks that some of Julia’s other classics does, but maybe that’s because she’s outshone in some scenes by Catherine Zeta…but the end does it every time. There is nothing like a public profession of love to get me to do a little jig of joy.
• Lie: We’ve got Billy Crystal making a lie out of their relationships and Catherine lying to everyone so yes we have some good satisfactory lies
• Big Emotional Outburst: Yes several
• Dance Sequence: Not really, unless you count the scene of the Nazi’s dancing in the movie they all are watching the premiere of.
• Wedding: NO! Man! What does a girl have to do around here to get a little old-fashioned- symbol-of-a- woman- being- property- handed-from- one-man- to- another WEDDING?!
• Rewatchable: Oui!
• Love: Here is that perfect moral lesson to all slightly fat females like myself: If you want true love, lose 60 pounds.
• Fantasy: Well, personally being an actress who has NEVER been treated so nice, I think it’s a fantasy that actors are pampered so well but I really think that maybe the really big stars are and the real fantasy is the dream that I could ever be treated that way. Also, when you have 2 super hot women, I mean ridiculous hot, in a RC you instantly have a great Fantasy.
• Journey of the Main Character: Other than losing 60 pounds… hmmm I don’t see it. I really don’t. Pretty much everyone stays the way they are, they just switch around some partners.
• Body Count: None. And this film really could have gotten away with one too!
• Music Montages: None.
• Strong Female: I’m going to say no. Julia’s character has been up until this movie a pathetic shadow of her sister. And she never really takes her own stand until the very very end. And even that is only through the help of a man. So no. And Catherine’s character- oh hell no!