Profile

outlier_lynn: (Default)
outlier_lynn

January 2015

S M T W T F S
    123
45678910
11121314151617
181920 21222324
25262728293031

Most Popular Tags

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

December 3rd, 2013

outlier_lynn: (Default)
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 07:31 am
I really like Kevin Kline, so when Stacey discovered a movie that was made in 1995 when I was not paying the slightest attention to movies which starred Mr. Kline, we opted to watch it. The other star was Meg Ryan. Ms. Ryan plays cute characters. Always. I suspect if she was the superhero star of an action thriller, she would play it cute. Maybe that is all she can do. I have a lot of trouble with most of her movies because I don't find her the least attractive or interesting. I almost never like cute in people over the age of 3 or 4. And romantic comedies are a hard genre to write/direct because of the shortage of plot lines and twists. So, all and all, I was prepared to hate my way through it just to watch Kevin Kline.

Fun fact: When Mr. Kline plays in a straight up comedy. he has a mustache. When in a drama (even in it has comedic elements) he is clean shaven. His choice.

Well, the basic plot was transparent. Meg was reliably cute. Kevin was reliably superb and his character was not what one thinks of when "male lead in romantic comedy" is spoken. He was good enough that he elevated a watchable movie to entertaining movie. He made it a 3 out of 5.
Tags:
outlier_lynn: (Default)
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 02:10 pm
Stacey and I have had Flypaper in our streaming queue on Netfix for quite a long time. I kept being a no to it because it stars Patrick Dempsey. I didn't like his character on Grey's Anatomy and I have not liked any of the interviews I've seen him in. So I don't like the man and I don't like the one character I've seen him play.

Finally decided to try it just to get it out of our queue.

Loved it. Even liked his character.

I'll probably watch it again. 3 out of 5.
Tags: