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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
Win...155 unspoiled minutes of your life by not watching this super-annoying movie!
So if you ask me what's good about this movie I can only tell you that I hadn't figured it out yet. Maybe the story could have some potential if it got a new screenplay, set of characters etc. You get the idea. Not much good to tell.
On the flip side, if you ask me what's bad about this movie, I have a whole list of things. But I will only focus on one point - the characters. And I don't mean the actors - or rather - I don't know if I have actors in mind as well, because the characters themselves and their lines were so terrible, it overshadowed the actors' performance. Total eclipse of talent, if there was any to start with.
Here's a quick character overview so you get the gist of it: The main female character - Rosalee - is so dull, I even thought her best friend could be in the lead, for what was like the first 5 minutes of the movie.
Cathy - Rosalee's best friend. Annoying, annoying, annoying. Fangirl of the title character, Ted Hamiltion. And FANGIRL do I mean! Hearing her overly exalted lines made me have a spasm attack inside, every time she opened her mouth. Whoever wrote that & thought it could be relatable? Or even believable? Tad Hamilton - a tool,but a nice tool. At least he tried. A celebrity and Rosalee's prime love interest.
Pete - Rosalee's best friend, who also happens to be secretly in love with her & my MAIN VOMIT GENERATOR in this movie. This character is a disgrace for every underdog lover in every romcom movie ever created. Chauvinist & treating his love interest like his property, he always knew better what she needed & wasn't shy to tell he what exactly she had to do with her v-card (& was very explicit about that, too). He basically felt entitled to tell the girl of his dreams where she could and couldn't go, with whom and when, as well as harass her life, while still being a coward too much to tell her his actual feelings for her. Not that it changes anything, because when he finally tells the unsuspecting poor thing, after who knows how many years of cowardice, he expects her to dump her current beau and move to another state with him ON THE SPOT. Is that supposed to be romantic, cause I'm getting more like psychotic? If I ever met a guy like him in real life I would steer clear of him & possibly report him a stalker. This character literally made me pause the movie after each scene he appeared in, for like 15 mins, so I could cool off and forget I ever watched him.
I only finished the movie because I was down with pneumonia for 3 weeks and was dying for something I haven't seen before. But I tell you - even then it was a BIG FAT NO.
How Do You Know (2010)
Horrible screenplay, bad bad story in general
A movie packed with good actors and such bad story-writing, it's honestly hard to watch. So basically, the story goes like this: We have this girl, who is an ex-baseball player, depressed over the end of her career & a famous baseball player, who also happens to be a lady-killer. The lady-killer falls in love with the girl, but his approach to love & being in a relationship is (especially in the beginning) rather controversial & selfish. This creates quite a few obstacles for him on his love quest. He tries to change his ways for the girl, he just doesn't know any better, leaving her unsure as to their future. But hey, did I tell you there was another suitor for the girl? Nope? Probably because he's so boring you forget about him before you even stop looking at him. So the other pal, mind you, is a sorry excuse for an ex-CEO of a large company who behaves more like a dollar store manager & who was just fired by his own father (the real deal), after the company has been put under federal investigation for fraud. So basically what does he do throughout the whole movie? Tries to uncover the truth, clean himself from accusations? None of the above. He decides to take these 121min of your life to run away from talking with his father and responsibility (which BTW I'm not saying he is to take, but behaving like a child isn't gonna solve the problem either). The woman he was in love with dumps him straight after she hears of his troubles, which is when he sort of accidentally gets to know the main heroine and instantly falls in love with her. So that's it. Guess who the heroine chooses? The a little too open, yet willing to change baseball relationship underdog who changes his ways for her, or the chickenhead with bad taste for women? Yep, you guessed it, it's the chickenhead. Beats me. I literally bled inside for everything that was wrong about this choice & the plot in general.