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No Strings Attached (2011)
A quick review
Don't watch it if you aren't couple of drunk girlfriends killing the time. And even in this case, we wanted to daze off a couple of times. For me, Natalie's blond friend (I don't even know the names of characters) stole the show. Every time she was in a scene, it made me smile :) Other than that, we just knew everything that will happen, almost to the point of knowing the lines they will say. Strange that Portman decided to be in it... Ashton is actually quite good for this type of romantic comedies or whatever, but the scrip was really bad in general. I give it 6 out of 10 just because I was in a good mood that night :)
The Romantics (2010)
slow, but interesting
I have been reading all the comments before actually deciding to write one. It seems this movie has either very bad or very good critique. To be honest, when it started I thought I will be bored to death by slow pace, pastel colors and TV-show actors trying to act more deep than usual. Somehow that didn't happen and I actually started thinking and feeling some of the emotions they are projecting. In my opinion what Romantics lack of is movie drama! It has the life one in it and people sometime forget what happens in real life can be more powerful than some invented soap opera with a happy/sad ending. I would like to read the book now, see how different it is from the movie and maybe go deeper into characters, because movie only scratched the surface. But anyhow, try, see if you can connect to it somehow and if you don't by the 20th minute or so - just leave it. Otherwise it will be a pain and you will end up wanting your hour and a half back.