I realize that I’m really getting ahead of myself with this comic – Love Happens doesn’t open until September 18 – but the dialogue in today’s comic was taken nearly verbatim from a conversation Cami and I had this evening and I couldn’t shake it. So, there you go. A little slice of life from the Brazelton house on a Tuesday night.
Cami had me sit down to watch the season premier of Flipping Out last night and Bravo was incessantly running commercials for Love Happens in between Jeff Lewis’s hissy fits. I thought it seemed strange that they were advertising what essentially looks like a direct-to-DVD release so early. I mean, the movie is a month away! But I suppose it was effective because I hadn’t heard word-one about this movie until last night.
IMDB breaks down the plot thusly:
About a widower whose book about coping with loss turns him into a best-selling self-help guru. On a business trip to Seattle, he falls for a woman who attends one of his seminars, only to learn that he hasn’t yet truly confronted his wife’s passing.
But the advertisement sums things up pretty succinctly…
Jennifer Aniston is unlucky in love. Aaron Eckhart helps millions, but can’t help himself. LOVE CONNECTION! Happy ending. Go home.
There. I just saved you eight bucks.
I wasn’t lying, though, when I said I would see the movie for Aaron Eckhart. In my opinion, after The Dark Knight and Thank You For Smoking, the man can do no wrong.
I’m not really excited about the idea of seeing Jennifer Aniston in ANOTHER romantic comedy where she’s unlucky in love. She’s America’s poster girl for failed relationships. I see enough of that on magazine racks and on E! News. Now you’re going to ask me to sit through it for 2 hours?
Aniston is a reasonably talented actress. I wish someone would cast her in something where the plot is not driven by romantic entanglements. She should make a cameo appearance in some other movie where she swears like a sailor and punches someone out just to mix things up a little bit.
That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
HEY! By the way, I reviewed the Blu-ray release of I Love You, Man here on the site yesterday. Hit the little back arrow to check it out if you missed it.
Other than that, I think I’m just going to hang around and dream about Aaron Eckhart’s jaw line. I mean!… Eat beef jerky and watch ESPN! Yeah! Sportscenter! It’s on right now!!
Later.
...looks like a B-grade snooze to me.
Oh! You mean Love Happens? Aaaron Eckhart is in that, isn't he? I'd see it. I really like him as an actor.
Is it Weird that Aaron Eckhart is a bigger draw for me than Jennifer Aniston?
Had to go look it up, but I haven’t seen Jennifer Anniston in anything as interesting as “The good Girl”
Office Space anyone?
It kind of looks like Cami is reading off cue cards in panel 2. I had to look again to realize they were envelopes. Though Cami reading off cue cards would be kind of a funny setup for a joke in any case…
yeah… i’m convinced that’s all Jen really has to offer… i mean come on… Friends was a very successful show but what was her characters thing…. Pheobe was the weird one, Monica was the Neat Neurotic one, Joey was the Player, Chandler was the toadie with all the quirky one liners, Ross was the smart one who also was horrible at relationships… and then there’s Rachel… “the poster girl for failed relationships” the sitcom starts off with her crying in a wedding dress… from that point down to the very last show…. it was the same PLOT!!!! forget 2 hour movie… try 10 years of being stuch in that label. oh well… C’est la vie!
As Tom said in his comment, Anniston showed she can act in The Good Girl. That was a pretty good movie and it certainly wasn’t a rom-com… 😉
Also liked Anniston in ‘dinner with friends’ not a rom-com, just a com, but she was pretty funny in it, a fan of Eckhart good actor,but bad choices, meet bill, towelhead, neverwas, not looking forward to ‘Battle L.A’ either.
To be fair, Aniston did “Derailed” but that film was not received too well (I liked it, though) so she’s not doing only comedies.
But let’s face it: For Aniston, Sandra Bullock and other 40+ bony women whose appeal wanes as they get older, the role pickings are going to be slim. I mean, she’s not going to be doing action films, thrillers where she has to run in heels, or war movies. At this point, she just needs to pull a Katherine Hepburn and stay out of movies for a while.
Skip this one and rent No Reservations. He’s great in that, Catherine Zeta Jones is kinda meh, but Abigail Breslin plays the kid. It’s good and it kept me thinking for a few days after.
I saw Aaron Eckhart in person a couple years ago, in Bozeman, Montana, no less. At a Montana State University football game. No joke. And he was taking pictures of ME. Well me and my fellow members of the marching band. I don’t think anybody walking past him recognized him, but this was before Dark Knight came out.
You know, you can pretend “No Reservations” was never made… but it was.
Your comment about the two-fisted, sailor-swearing Jen A.reminds me, for some reason, of Sarah Jessica Parker’s role in Strangers With Candy. Probably something to do with actors playing characters completely out of line with their norm.
Find and rent “Neverwas”. Excellent performances by both Aaron Eckhart and Ian McKellen