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| Honestly....sooo glad I didn't pay to watch this |
Surprisingly this doesn't paint New York as a magical city, where everyone is happy regardless of the violence, pollution and traffic. Josh Radnor (Ted from How I Met Your Mother) wrote this, I think, almost exclusively to show how New York can gobble up people whole, chew them out for 10-15 years and then spit them out to New Jersey.
You definitely get a cynical feeling from the writing, which is exactly what I thought I needed right now instead of all the happy go lucky stuff, but by the end of it your like "OMG I NEED SOME HAPPY GO LUCKY STUFF" it's not even that sad it's just so incredibly mundane.
All the female characters suck (both on a personal level and on a story telling level) with the exception of Kate Mara's (tee hee Mara from Persona 3) character, Mississippi, who is cute and fragile and mysterious and she's not that good either but she had me smitten by the end of it.
All the male characters on the other hand...well there were four male characters all together:
Sam: A more cynical Ted, who doesn't like helping people anymore but he still does it cause it secretly makes him feel good, any notion of romance is gone from the outside but Ted is still in there romancing away...he reminds me of me...except in like 10 years
Long Haired Guy: Has a bitch for a girlfriend who's holding him back but is such a cool guy he doesn't even really mind
Guy That Showed Up For A Total Of Five Minutes To Show How Stupid One Of The Female Characters is: He's played with real depth...
Samtwo: Ohhh Samtwo, the fucking BEST part of this movie. A man with such persistence and such undeniable romancing prowess (thats right FUCKING PROWESS) that by the end of the movie you love this man with all your heart and just wish to be even a fraction of the awesomeness he is. If there's ANY reason to watch this movie it's Sammotherfuckingtwo
All the male characters on the other hand...well there were four male characters all together:
Sam: A more cynical Ted, who doesn't like helping people anymore but he still does it cause it secretly makes him feel good, any notion of romance is gone from the outside but Ted is still in there romancing away...he reminds me of me...except in like 10 years
Long Haired Guy: Has a bitch for a girlfriend who's holding him back but is such a cool guy he doesn't even really mind
Guy That Showed Up For A Total Of Five Minutes To Show How Stupid One Of The Female Characters is: He's played with real depth...
Samtwo: Ohhh Samtwo, the fucking BEST part of this movie. A man with such persistence and such undeniable romancing prowess (thats right FUCKING PROWESS) that by the end of the movie you love this man with all your heart and just wish to be even a fraction of the awesomeness he is. If there's ANY reason to watch this movie it's Sammotherfuckingtwo
In the end the movie gave me a feeling of reinvigoration. That made me want to get up and live life again and visit downtown Toronto and all that great stuff, but that feeling is short lived and you realize that you will never want to watch this movie ever again, it felt (much like this blog post) cut up and at the end you feel like you've accomplished nothing, the only positive aspect is that the writers kept it mercifully short (see what I did there >_<)
I'd recommend this movie to people who are tired of cliches...you'll get the joke after you watch it....but you'll kind of like it trust me.
Sammotherfuckingtwo,
Asaya HelwaEhwee
Sammotherfuckingtwo,
Asaya HelwaEhwee




















