So I reviewed the movie Old Fashioned and it's a religious movie that has been billed as the "Anti-Fifty Shades of Grey" and while it's slightly better than Fifty Shades as well as every movie based on a Nicholas Sparks novel that ever hit theaters, it's still not very good.
We are introduced to Clay Walsh, a man whose past consisted of making Girls Gone Wild-style videos who has since renounced that life and became a born-again Christian who spouts theories about today's dating scene and how dating is basically something that leads to sex before the "getting to know you" phase. However, the people around him have basically written him off as a crazy recluse.
That is until free-spirited Amber comes to town. A woman who is fleeing from a series of abusive relationships, Amber winds up in Clay's hometown and rents the apartment above Clay's antique shop. She quickly becomes intrigued by Clay's theories on relationships, most notably the fact that he won't be alone in a room with a woman he's not married to (which I've never heard of before and that actually makes Clay out to look more like a serial killer instead of an honorable man who is trying to respect the opposite sex.)
The two soon embark on a relationship where they attempt the impossible: Reintroducing courtship rituals that are a hundred years out of date into a society that revolves around sex, which includes a slightly creepy scene where Clay makes Amber cut up pears to feed to his friend's baby.
Overall, some of the overtures of the movie are a bit unsettling and there are scenes where it's padded out with B-roll footage of the beautiful Ohio landscape which the director relies on far too much.
But with the exception of the male lead, the acting in the movie is pretty solid, mainly the female lead (even when she's being creepy when she's breaking all her stuff to get Clay to go out with her.)
As far as the movie goes, I would recommend this for a bad movie night.
We are introduced to Clay Walsh, a man whose past consisted of making Girls Gone Wild-style videos who has since renounced that life and became a born-again Christian who spouts theories about today's dating scene and how dating is basically something that leads to sex before the "getting to know you" phase. However, the people around him have basically written him off as a crazy recluse.
That is until free-spirited Amber comes to town. A woman who is fleeing from a series of abusive relationships, Amber winds up in Clay's hometown and rents the apartment above Clay's antique shop. She quickly becomes intrigued by Clay's theories on relationships, most notably the fact that he won't be alone in a room with a woman he's not married to (which I've never heard of before and that actually makes Clay out to look more like a serial killer instead of an honorable man who is trying to respect the opposite sex.)
The two soon embark on a relationship where they attempt the impossible: Reintroducing courtship rituals that are a hundred years out of date into a society that revolves around sex, which includes a slightly creepy scene where Clay makes Amber cut up pears to feed to his friend's baby.
Overall, some of the overtures of the movie are a bit unsettling and there are scenes where it's padded out with B-roll footage of the beautiful Ohio landscape which the director relies on far too much.
But with the exception of the male lead, the acting in the movie is pretty solid, mainly the female lead (even when she's being creepy when she's breaking all her stuff to get Clay to go out with her.)
As far as the movie goes, I would recommend this for a bad movie night.