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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Break-Ups
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I decided to go with a more comedic route with today's picks.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
A man goes on a Hawaiian vacation to get over a breakup only to find his ex-girlfriend is also staying at the same resort with her new boyfriend. This one gets aired on TV quite a bit so I usually get to rewatch parts of it and I still find it funny.
500 Days of Summer (2009)
After a breakup, a man retraces the failed relationship to see what went wrong. I love this one. It's bright, quirky and has a great soundtrack.
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
After the breakup of their marriage, a couple have always been friends, tries to maintain their friendship. It's been some time since I've seen this, but I remember it being quirky and just very sweet.
I decided to go with a more comedic route with today's picks.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
A man goes on a Hawaiian vacation to get over a breakup only to find his ex-girlfriend is also staying at the same resort with her new boyfriend. This one gets aired on TV quite a bit so I usually get to rewatch parts of it and I still find it funny.
500 Days of Summer (2009)
After a breakup, a man retraces the failed relationship to see what went wrong. I love this one. It's bright, quirky and has a great soundtrack.
Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
After the breakup of their marriage, a couple have always been friends, tries to maintain their friendship. It's been some time since I've seen this, but I remember it being quirky and just very sweet.
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I liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall quite a bit more than I expected to thanks mostly to Jason Segel and Mila Kunis.
ReplyDeleteI thought Celeste and Jesse asked the audience to take a big leap to accept some of the situations it presented but by and large it was a pleasant enough film.
While I didn't hate it everyone seems to love 500 Days of Summer much more than I did. But part of that could be that I have little tolerance for Zooey Deschanel.
I went with two that looked at the breakup from the woman's side and the other's title just made it too hard to resist including it.
An Unmarried Woman (1978)-Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) feels secure in her longtime marriage to husband Martin (Michael Murphy) and their comfortable life with their daughter in New York City. Then one day walking down the street Martin tells her that he’s leaving her for someone else. Blindsided we follow Erica as she grapples with the break-up, reassesses her opinion of herself and finds an identity that isn’t tied to being an extension of someone else’s self-worth. Jill Clayburgh was Oscar nominated for her work.
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)-After successful literary reviewer Frances Mayes (a luminous Diane Lane) is told her husband is cheating on her by a vengeful author she slides into a deep depression. In an effort to help her out of it her best friend, Patti (Sandra Oh), encourages Frances to take a tour of Italy. During the trip, Frances impulsively buys a rural, somewhat decrepit Tuscan villa and struggles to find her balance again. Surrounded by eccentric characters and the beauty of Tuscany (the cinematography is gorgeous) she discovers a new life and family.
The Break-Up (2006)-Art dealer Brooke (Jennifer Aniston) and tour bus driver Gary (Vince Vaughn) meet cute and despite being opposites soon find themselves deeply involved and sharing an apartment. When their myriad differences finally drive a wedge between them and they break-up neither wants to vacate their home. As each attempts to get the other out their bitterness towards the other grows. Not a great movie but it does have the courage of its convictions and doesn’t cheat the audience with an unrealistic ending.
Zooey Deschanel is definitely very quirky, but I do like her in 500 Days of Summer. But not in The New Girl...that was just too much quirk.
DeleteI do like Under the Tuscan Sun, it was very scenic. The Break-Up was okay I think but forgettable.
I love (500) Days of Summer. Like, love it to pieces! Still have its poster at home, brings me joy even though I haven't watched it in ages.
ReplyDeleteMe too! I had bought the blu-ray as soon as it was available back then, so I could watch it again.
DeleteWe match on Celeste and Jesse! I love all of your picks. I didn't even think of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I'm kind of kicking myself for that.
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the first ones I thought of since it gets aired on TV a lot.
DeleteCeleste & Jesse has gotten a lot of love this week, it's gone straight onto my watchlist!
ReplyDeleteIt's a good watch.
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