A sentence that is stuck in my head from this viewing experience is “I’m dating Ryan Reynold’s hair”. This is not from the movie, this is something Girl said when she saw the hairdo that he was rocking in this film. This might also give you readers some idea of what I look like. (Girl is laughing at this comment).
So this movie is pretty much an ensemble that for the most part is focused on the relationship between Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe, who play father and son. In the beginning of this movie we see Dafoe and Julia Roberts on a drive to see her sister. The sister’s kid runs into the road and Dafoe has to swerve to get away. This results in Julia’s death and a lot of angst for the kid. After the wake and during we get to follow a bunch of flashbacks in how it was living with Dafoe as young kids. He was pretty much an asshole. After many ups and downs this movie ends on a happy note... sorry.
I, and this is only me, have a hard time taking Mr. Reynolds seriously after all of his teenage gross-out comedies. This might be because I find him very amusing and are always hoping for a quick joke or two. I have to give it to him here though cause he delivers quite the performance. It could be because he’s surrounded by an amazing cast. I might not like him because Girl has a giant crush on him and this is making me a little bit jealous.
Guy’s Rating: If there’s nothing else in the videostore. Stay away from my girl, Ryan!
Girl’s sigh...
First, I don’t remember saying that about the hair.
This movie had way more downs than ups, in my opinion. I had no idea how they expected us to like Dafoe in the end of the movie, but they sure tried to make us with one last “Hizzah! See he was a good day. They were happy.” They should have had two or three more moments like that in order to almost convince me. Also, they convinced me that Julia was an oblivious mother to little Ryan, which made me mad, and in love with a hard, brutish man. Very confusing why they all loved each other. That might have been the point, but I didn’t get it.
There were a lot of unanswered questions at the end of the movie. Like “Was that sexual tension between Aunt and nephew imagined?” “What did the Aunt want to hide that was in Ryan’s character’s book?” “What was Trinity doing in the movie?” Even with these questions, I, in some crazy way, still liked it.
Girl’s Rating: Not great, but good. Between Chaos Theory and this, though, I would suggest Chaos Theory for your viewing entertainment.
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