So, I loved Chris Pine in Star Trek, and I happened to have "Just My Luck" at home, so I finally watched it. He was adorable, as was Lindsay Lohan.
In fact, how can you take two such charming, charasmatic, fun stars, and create such a ridiculously mediocre movie? I mean, the premise is a little silly, but I can go with it. But the execution of the idea! It's like - who is that is responsible for how the movie turns out?
Is it the writers? The director? The producers? I'm sitting there watching and thinking, "Okay, Okay, I get it. Bad luck!" Do you need to beat me over the head? Did they really think that over-the-top-ness was funny? They weren't trusting their stars to create the empathy the audience could have had. What were they thinking?
I don't hold Mr. Pine and Ms. Lohan responsible for this inanity. I'm sure they were following the script and the directions -- again charmingly, and amusingly, I might add -- as did girlfriends Samaire Armstrong and Bree Turner.
It's another example of how American romantic comedies disappoint. Instead of writing about the things that could really happen - that DO really happen - in real life, we are subjected to some hack's overblown idea of of what it takes to make an audience laugh. What nonsense!
We could have awesome, wonderful romantic comedies, and Hollywood just keeps missing the boat. I don't get it. I really don't. When you think of all the money spent to make movies, and all the money made off the movies, how come we can't get high quality? We need like a revolution against "Hollywood."
I've heard it's "the suits" who insist that these silly scenes be in movies, but who exactly are these "suits"? And how do we get them to get the message: We want intelligent romantic comedies!
Dorothy
P.S. - I see Chris Pine is in "Killing Pablo" which I'm already excited about because it has one of my other favorite actors: Christian Bale! Yay!
