"how do you know? "-American version of "Single Men and Women"

Alverta 2022-04-26 06:01:02

(What I wrote nearly ten years ago! I'm glad I wrote so badly at the time, and I have grown up.)

There are two movie spoilers ("Single Men and Women" and this movie), be careful! After winning the Oscar for the role of Johnny Cash's wife in "Forever", Reese Witherspoon has no more moving roles. It is said that her awards often remind me of two other actresses who are good at love comedy and finally made the Oscar podium in a serious literary film once in a hundred years in their career: Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock. This is the love comedy that Reese returns to her best, but it only makes people feel powerless. Mentioning her most impressive is the old films "Election Night", "Love in Alabama", and "The Lawful Beauty Trilogy", just like the mention of Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock that will always awaken my memory. They look like a silly eldest sister in a romantic movie. Maybe it's not a good script. Reese's comeback work "How Do You Know" is a relatively mediocre film. I watched this film the same evening after Louis Koo’s "Single Men and Women" by Lego Yuanyuan Wu. It's a coincidence that the two films have exactly the same story setting. They are also two men chasing a woman, a man with a heart and an infatuated man (the same is for the lover Gu Tianle and Owen Wells, who want to change their sexuality but are always struggling; the same; Daniel Wu and Paul Rudd, who are specific but not good at expressing, are also the heroines who hesitate to make up their minds, and even the important props are also buses! But fortunately, Du and Wei Jiahui still defeated James Brooks of the United States in the PK. This is why the same big-name director and actor, "How Do You Know", which was released first, is not as famous as "Single Men and Women". Unlike "Single Men and Women", which is clean and "only talk about love", the film is filled with a chatty temperament in 2 hours. The director (also the screenwriter-a typical "successful academic control") takes the trouble to put some " "Inspirational quotes" are poured into the protagonist's mouth and let them spit out in various scenes. The result is that the audience feels like chewing wax. Come on, romance films just talk about love, don't forcefully squeeze in some untuned things, movies are for the audience, not your position to express your outlook on life, I want to teach and publish books! Or simply make an inspirational movie, don't just use it in a romance movie to defeat the audience's appetite! It is worth mentioning that Paul Luther's performance, a guy who is as devastated but dedicated as the architect played by Daniel Wu. Let me barely survive for two hours. As for Jack Nicholson? In this film, it's a soy sauce maker.

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  • Robert 2022-04-26 06:01:02

    Let's see how the girl changed the spare tire

  • Dusty 2022-04-26 06:01:02

    I checked the information and found that it was indeed the director's idea. Although he had made a lot of preparations, it still seemed too strange and too stiff. Those who watch this film as a romantic comedy will probably be even more disappointed.

How Do You Know quotes

  • Charles: Anger can be useful. Watch out for the bitterness.

  • George: I got you a gift.

    [it's a present wrapped in a brown paper bag]

    Lisa: Thanks.

    [Opens the gift]

    Lisa: . Thanks for not rushing me.

    George: Yeah.

    [It's Play-Doh]

    George: This is only half the gift.

    Lisa: Yeah?

    George: It doesn't work without the story.

    Lisa: [sarcastically] Ok?

    George: [Explains the story of how Play-Doh was invented] This stuff was invented by this man in central Ohio as white goo. They used it to remove stuff off a wallpaper from old-fashioned heating. So this gas and electric heating came and there was no longer a need for the cleaning goo. So, the guy was going under with his sister in law who was a nursery school teacher...

    Lisa: Is this a true story?

    George: The man's name was Joe Mcvicker. His sister was Kay Zufall.

    Lisa: Ok, I believe you.

    George: So, Kay Zufall discovered that her little kids liked squeezing the goo a lot more than hard-modeling clay. So she suggested to her brother in law Joe, the color of the stuff, and call it Play-Doh.

    Lisa: [impressed] Hey. Nice.

    George: I have kept this for a long time as proof that we're all just one small adjustment the way from making our lives work.