Never Been Kissed

 Haha, I seriously found Never Been Kissed hilarious. Not always in a good way, but still. So I'm gonna break it up in good and bad:

 Good stuff:

• The whole idea of a grown-up being so dependent on approval by HIGH SCHOOL KIDS was deeply hilarious to me. Kind of sad, but comical. 
• Josie's outfit on the first day of school. FEATHERS. Nuff said.
• Rob's reaction towards whats-her-face being underage. He just went like, "AND A GYMNASTIC!" Lol I love u 4eva Rob Geller.
• I don't know why but someone's last name being Geller makes them ten times more funny to me. Oh wait I know why, hello Ross and Monica.
• Leelee Sobieski's character. SO MUCH AWESOME
• Josie getting high. I'm sorry but hahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahha FORK.
• That time when she was fiiiinally popular and ended up walking around school with a LOSER printed across her head. I kinda saw it coming, though. However, still cool.
• The dude in the van. He just kinda always had a girl around and casually stopped snogging to go like LETS WATCH JOSIE Y'ALL
• Josie and Guy's costume for prom. I mean, it was pretty cool and all, but that's not why it's so good. The good part is, Josie goes like "We're Rosalind and Orlando, you know, from Shakespeare" and Guy is all "I HAVE A SWORD" :D :D So. effing. mature.
• The kind of sad story about Josie having never kissed a guy. And her horrible adolescence. It was good, in a completely not-funny way, but every romcom needs a little sadsadsad :(
• JOSIE AND SAM'S REUNION OMG I'M SORRY BUT I'M SUCH A GIRL AND I LOVED IT OMG SO CUTE :D :D :D 
• The DNA costume. Awesomeeee! <3

Bad stuff:

•  Look, I love Drew Barrymore. But seriously? During the second half of the movie, she's on the verge of tears all. the. freaking. time. Look, I get it, it's hard for you and all, but stop being so whiny! That's cheap acting. Hold 'em back. Let me see it on your face. Clench your jaw. Let your voice tremble. I don't know. Just don't whine like that!
• How shallow and archetypical the characters are. Look, I get it, it's a comedy, but some of it was too much. I'm in high school and usually, when there is someone who doesn't fit in, people either try to get them to join the crowd, or, if that fails, just leave them be. But I guess I go to an extremely friendly high school. Anyway, no one actually takes high school that seriously and no one is actually like that. "People try to be us, but they end up being wannabees" or whatever. Hun, you're no Hollywood star; you're in high school. Shut your mouth. And, I'm sorry, but if you crash head-first in a door and fall over, someone is going to come and check if you're ok, even if you're the most unpopular human being on the planet. Fact.
• The prom theme. What if you're single?!

That's pretty much it. I loved the film's 90s-ness. Awesome. As an almost-90s kid, I cannot not love it. And I'm saying almost, because I was born halfway through the 90s, but where I live, they were a bit late, so we had 90s spirit until like 2003, so I remember what it's like to be a kid in the 90s. I have no idea how many times I said 90s in that paragraph. I <3 the 90s.

7/10.

My Best Friend's Girl

 I guess the reason I didn't TOTALLY LOVE My Best Friend's Girl (because I'm a bit of a sucker for lighthearted, clichéd romcoms) was that I was not in the mood for a lighthearted, clichéd romcom after the beautiful Midnight in Paris. And I defo wasn't in the mood for Jason Biggs. I mean, I have days when I love Jason Biggs, but on some days he just reminds me so much of American Pie, and that movie always kind of pisses me off. No offense to anyone who likes American Pie, by the way. Just totally not my cup of tea.

 What seriously pissed me off about My Best Friend's Girl, though, wasn't its clichéd lightheartedness (which was awesome), nor was it Jason Biggs (who was awesome). It was that concept that last guys finish last. I mean... I hate it. Jason's character, Dustin, is a terribly nice guy whom every girl would love to have in her life, even though he does, admittedly, go a bit overboard trying to impress Kate Hudson... Alexis. But he is so nice, and so lovely, and so attentive, and yet she turns him down. Congratulations, Dustin, you just got FRIENDZONED. As someone who has friendzoned a terribly nice guy and bitterly regreted it after that, I would like to point out: THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO BE TEACHING TEENAGERS. Or young adults. Or whoever this is targeted at.

 So, instead of going for the absolutely loveable Dustin, Alexis decides that her ONE TRU LUF is... Dustin's best friend and roommate, Tank. Now, don't get me wrong, Tank is a charming dude. He's got a smile to die for, sense of humor and he is an incredibly loyal friend... until he falls for Alexis. But she doesn't know how great he is, because he is being a douchebag all the time. And yet she falls in love with him. And ruins their friendship.

 I mean, it being a romcom and all, at the end it's all obviously resolved, Tank and Dustin are friends again and Tank and Alexis fall in love and I cannot, for the life of me, remember what happens to Dustin, even though I saw the film like a week ago. I didn't watch it all in one go, however, so there is this pretty weird part at the end that I do not get - I think Alexis and her recently married (did she get married? I think she kind of didn't. ) sister are pregnant with Tank's children... Or it might have just been a replay of something that happened earlier. I'm pretty sure it's the latter. I have to rewatch to be sure, though.

 Well, it's a pretty predictable film, but it has some genuinly funny parts and it's nice enough, as romantic comedies go. The actors are not bad. The soundtrack is not bad. And there is this lovely theme of male friendship. I love male friendship. I mean, with a girl-and-girl friendship there is ALWAYS some bitchiness and with a boy-and-girl friendship there is ALWAYS some sexual tension, but boy-and-boy friendships are so beautiful and true and drama-free and awesome and oh my god sometimes I just wanna be a boy so badly. That's why I was very un-impressed when a girl ruined their friendship, but it did get better in the end and Tank and Dustin's friendship survived that jump.

 On the whole, I liked it, it was fun to pass the time, but I wouldn't say it's a film I'm gonna remember. And there are some annoying concepts, such as last guys finish last and a girl can ruin a male friendship, which I just do not agree with. But it was funny (kind of important, seeing how it's a comedy) and the performance was good, so I'm gonna give it...

6/10.

Midnight in Paris

 My first impression of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris is that it is, indeed, VERY beautiful. The beginning was just... captivating - the colours, the music, the whole atmosphere literally left me speechless. Breathless, even. The film has a very classic vibe to it, even though it was released in 2011. It tells the story of of Gil Pender, who is about to marry his beautiful fianceé... um, Rachel McAdams. Inez, I think her character's name is. Rachel is flawless, as usual, by the way. So, Gil is an aspiring writer, who has to settle for writing scripts for Hollywood movies, even though what he REALLY TRULY wants is to move to Paris. He loves the city (Inez, however, wants to live in Malibu. MALIBU. Honestly?!). Actor Owen Wilson is quite believable, as I actually felt Gil's love for Paris, and I completely agreed with him when he claimed to having been born in the wrong time. Inez's wealthy, somewhat snobbish parents do not like Gil one bit. I am not even sure Inez likes him that much, to be honest... So she hangs out with her friends - knowledgable, but pedantic Paul and his somewhat one-dimensional girlfriend Carol. Meanwhile, Gil takes a midnight stroll around Paris, gets drunk and ends up being whisked away to the twenties, as he always wished. There (or then?) he meets Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and so on - people he idolizes. He takes it all in, and it is really beautiful - the atmosphere, the music, all of it is just wonderful. The time-travel can only happen at a certain spot in Paris, and always at midnight - hence the title of the film. Inez, understandably, doesn't believe Gil. The next night he meets Picasso and his beautiful lover, Adrianna (played by that girl from Jeux d'enfants) and after they walk around Paris for a bit, Adrianna and Gil fall in love. Or something. I mean, he is very confused, because he obviously loves Inez (for some reason) but he realises they have nothing in common (except they both like pita bread OMG IT'S MEANT TO BE), and Adrianna "subtle beauty" just... enchants him. And she gets him. After a little bit, though, Adrianna runs away with Hemingway (the girl is not kidding) and Gil tells Salvador Dali and his surrealist mates that he is from the future. And they are all like, "Well, why not?" and just go with it. I would love to have a surrealist friend!
 Back in his own time, Gil meets this antique dealer girl named Gabrielle and they talk about how wonderful the past is, and he finds Adrianna's diary and finds out she was in love with him and had a dream about him giving her earrings. Romantic, I know. So then he proceeds to steal his girlfriend's pearl earrings and there's a little funny scene where he tries to hide from her what's happening. It's actually really funny. However, he buys some other earrings for Adrianna and goes back to the twenties. They declare their love for each other, kiss, blah blah, and then - it's really weird - they are sent to the 1890s, which Adrianna thinks is the best time to live in Paris. She is offered a job (I think? It was really weird.) and stays in the 1890s, while Gil has a sudden realisation that the past is the past and goes back to 2010, stopping briefly in the 20s (this sounds so weird) to retrieve his novel from Stein. I'm pretty sure his novel is autobiographical, because Stein is the one who finds out Inez is having an affair with Paul. Back in his own time, Gil confronts her about it and she confesses, but she's all like "whatever, I only did him because you were taking a walk" or something of the sort. He breaks up with her, moves to Paris, meets Gabrielle the antique girl again, and they walk in the rain and fall in love (oh, yeah, he has a passion for Paris in the rain, which, I agree, is truly beautiful).
 Oh, and by the way, at some point, Inez's father hires a private investigator to follow Gil around, but he ends up in the 17th century. Somehow. Paris is weird like that, apparently.

 So, my overall impression of the film is the following: it's a nice story, the cinematography is absolutely amazing, the characters are interesting (even though they are not as fully fleshed out as I would like them to be, but they are not completely one-dimensional either), it's not some old and exhausted plot, but sometimes the whole thing doesn't really make sense. Like, how come all those super-famous people were casually hanging around in Paris? The Fitzgeralds and Hemingway are Americans. And OF COURSE Gil winds up meeting them all, duh. But, oh, I couldn't not love it, because I love Paris, I love the early 20th century and I absolutely love time travel. It is a beautiful mixture of modern and classic. And I loved Adrianna's hairstyle. So. Pretty. I wish I could casually go to the twenties :(

 And the music. The music adds up to the story so much. It's amazing. Seriously.

 I think the film is... not exactly a must-see, but a wonderful experience, to say the least. It's romantic (even though it didn't end the way I wanted it to... well, I guess this was more realistic than my idea, but why couldn't have Gil ended up with Adrianna? :( ), it's REALLY pretty, the music is beautiful, and it has some really good actors. And I guess it has a nice moral, if you're into that kind of stuff - the past is the past, and it might be amazing, but you have to learn to live in the present. And art and literature matter.

 7/10.

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