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Sneaking out from the girls’ dorm at midnight? Smells like a teen horror. Sorority House Massacre?
Nope. No Sorority House Massacre.
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As this site’s official Change-Up apologist, I can say it’s definitely NOT The Change-Up. Is it the Van Wilder movie? I’ve never seen it, but a shot of a co-ed diary and a younger Ryan Reynolds makes me think it might be a movie about college shenanigans, and I’m pretty sure that’s what Van Wilder is.
-Tom
Not the Change Up. Not Van Wilder.
Lots of misses. Maybe the 60 will help.
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Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Klein? Definitely, Maybe.
Maybe?
Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Klein and Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weitz. Definitely, Maybe. A charming, above-average 2008 romcom that avoids the usual crutches of the genre. And it turns out that Ryan Reynolds is a good fit for these kinds of movies, as opposed as trying to shoehorn him into superhero movies and such.
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I got dragged to the theater to see Definitely, Maybe and was utterly gobsmacked at how good it was. I don’t mean to oversell it–you characterize it properly as above average–but it really surprised me. I have been a big fan of Ryan Reynolds ever since.
-xtien
Yeah, that was pretty much my experience, too. Plus, it’s tough to watch this and not fall in love with Isla Fisher.
You know, every time I manage to pick one of these I go home and say to myself: “Aha! I know exactly which movie I want to do… a favorite of mine and I know it’s never been posted before and… er… crap. I don’t actually own it and it’s not available anywhere on demand. Well shucks, what do I have in my DVD library that no one has done before?”
And because I have repeated that same inner dialog no less than five times, I am down to movies that pretty much anyone will get just from the color palette. Thus, I present to you the world’s easiest 20:20!
You going Black Swan on us?
I’m going to tell myself that Tom saw that frame, immediately thought “300” and then went off on a Frank Miller tangent and somehow landed in Sin City while he typed. I believe in you Tom.
Anyway here are the rest:
“Then we’ll fight in the shade…”
In a typical movie, this would be the scene where you can pick out which one will die because he’s talking about his family back home. But of course they’re all gonna die, so it’s just a chance to flex.
Lena Headey makes a tough choice.
About 12 seconds after Gerard Butler gets to scream into the camera for the last time.
And while I was impatiently waiting to see who would guess it, I ordered the movie I really wanted to post from Amazon. Next time, dammit, next time.
Oh, right, I forgot there was a chick in the first 300 movie.
-Tom
