Movie Review: "Dedication", possible spoilers, but you probably won't see it anyway
Terrible movie. I don't know why I watched the whole thing. Okay, maybe I do know why. I suppose you would call it a romantic comedy, but it wasn't really funny, and he was not at all charming. It was very atypical. He was rude and mean, and she was miserable (in life in general). You didn't come away from it wanting their perfect lives. They both came from dysfunctional backgrounds and were just trying to have things not get worse. Things didn't end up all perfect. He was still messed up, and you still got the feeling she was settling (though given the choice between him and her ex-boyfriend, I guess he was the better one).
There was one part that was sweet, though. They had just kissed after looking at the stars, and he said he couldn't go any farther because it would get complicated (they worked together).
Lucy: Do you just genuinely dislike me, Henry?Henry: A week ago I didn't give a rat's [patootie] about nebulas, and now I can't get enough of them, k?
Lucy: 'Nebulae.'
Henry: What?
Lucy: It's 'nebulae,' not 'nebulas.'
Henry: Okay, fine, I don't care about nebulas. You can accuse me of whatever you want, I'm probably guilty of it: contributing to global warming and killing a squirrel once and using the word 'retarded' and occasionally misinterpreted bigotry, but don't, don't, don't...don't, don't, don't, don't, don't accuse me of not liking you. K?
Lucy: I understand.
And that was that. So while now after thinking about it I don't think it was a waste of an hour and a half as I cleared out drawers and folded laundry, I still don't think I'd recommend it.
Lucy: I understand.

4 Comments:
I usually watch cheesy romantic comedies while cleaning as well... makes it easy to get stuff done.
:) Never heard of it. But I thought you didn't like happy endings? So this would be right up your alley then?
well *spoiler alert* it wasn't that it wasn't a happy ending for them, it was just that they were still both messed up
and it wasn't a cheesy romcom, cuz like i said, it wasn't really funny. but i don't know that i'd call it a drama either. it was just very different.
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