Girl Next Door, Porkys, Laws of Attraction
Idyllic weekend spent up in Louisville, relaxing away from the hustle and bustle of life. Lovely :)
Watched quite a few movies:
Good, not great flick. All the players are B-list, aside from Elisha Cuthbert, but the story’s heartwarming and somewhat interesting. It’s an unoriginal rip-off of “Risky Business” in many ways.
Porky’s
Ah, the infamous Porky’s, the movie that reminds us why we’re really glad we’re not horny teenagers in 1950’s Florida. There is ONE scene that makes this movie watchable: The hilarious sex scene with a young Kim Catrall as Miss “Lassie” Honeywell. Aside from that, this is a diffuse, pointless, anacrhonistic period piece that tries to string together a series of moneyshot vingnettes (“Girls in the shower”, “Having Honeywell in the morning”, “Boys at the whorehouse”, “I’m just a Jew”) with the merest hint of a unifying thread. It commits the only unforgivable sin of the teen sex romp–It’s BORING!
Laws of Attraction
The only thing this phoned-in Brosnan/Moore vehicle has going for it is its name. It’s title is so similar to about 10 other films, you can’t zero-in on how bad it is with your friends. Say “Glitter” or “Gigli” and everyone will immediately recognize the waste of celluloid you’re speaking of; say “Laws of Attraction” and you can’t remember which of the films that is.
Anyway, the plot and characters are like a Mad Lib gone awry:
The Romantic Comedy Mad-lib
Name a city: New York
Name a profession: Lawyer
Which character should be the neat freak: The woman
Which should be the slob: The Man
Name a country they should away to for their wedding: Ireland
Name the worst actress you could have in the supporting role: Parker Posey
Which supporting character should be behind it all: The mom
Actually, the above could’ve made a decent film (God knows, J.Lo makes millions off this very formula like clockwork!), if only it didn’t get more preposterous with each reel. By the end, I swear there was a leprechaun behind the whole thing–would’ve been more believable.
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Had a bad case of insomnia last night…couldn’t get to sleep until almost 2am. Can’t remember the last time I had trouble sleeping.