Having just watched the movie Valentine's Day, I had to resist the unbearable desire to run away screaming. It was bad. VERY.
Featuring a star-studded cast, from McDreamy and McSteamy from Grey's, to Taylor Swift (the country singer) and Taylor Lautner (the werewolf in New Moon who is almost always shirtless), I initially thought that it would be a good movie, short and sweet, since, well, it's about Valentine's Day. I was dead wrong.
Firstly, there were too many characters with their lives intertwining all throughout the movie. And I stil have no idea what role the two Taylors had in the movie. Maybe it's just their ability to draw huge crowds because their characters were horribly shallow, and rather embarassing too. Frankly, I was surprised when Taylor Swift acted so idiotically!
The whole show's also pretty predictable. Everyone breaks up in the beginning and finds true love in the end. There's the lovesick child, the old couple, the sex-crazed teenagers, the two-timing middle-ager, and even the best friend swho end up falling in love! We've seen all this before, albeit in different movies so they were a lot less difficult to stomach. But to cram them all together into one is simply a recipe for disaster. Halfway throught the movie, you could pretty much tell who was going to pair up with whom.
If you're thinking of watching this on a date, well, you'd better think twice, 'cause you're gonna emerge pretty disappointed from the theaters, unless if you're the kind of person who enjoys sappy love stories. I don't, which is why I rather regretted watching it. There's just too much going on in this movie. Concentrating on a couple or two would be good enough, but they had to put around seven of them in there. What the hell?
It got pretty confusing because I could no longer remember which character was which. It's just a very large mess which the producers expect us to simply lap up gratefully. Well, they're going to be disappointed. This movie is, put simply, a cliche.
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