Posted on 06/19/2009 12:50:19 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Yes, folks, the MOVIE REVIEW of "The Proposal," opening this weekend and starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, includes a direct shot at Sarah Palin.
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Grade: C-
Who's In It: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Betty White, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Denis O'Hare, Malin Akerman, Oscar Nunez
The Basics: Sandra B is the high-powered book editor who gets reluctant best-selling authors on Oprah and who rules over her own kingdom with an iron fist. Ryan Reynolds is her resentful, beleaguered assistant. But when the Canadian-born lady-boss violates her work visa and is threatened with deportation, she forces her underling to propose to her or lose his own job. And that's how they managed to work in the wedding scene. Because there always has to be a wedding of some sort in this kind of movie, which is sort of a stepchild to the subgenre of "chick flicks" in which OHMYGOD I HAVE TO GET MARRIED RIGHT NOW!
What's The Deal: Back in the olden times before movies were in color, there was this director named Howard Hawks and this other guy named Preston Sturges. Between the two of them they made movies like His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, The Lady Eve and Palm Beach Story. Ever seen those? You should. Because in those movies when the leading lady and leading man were destined to fall in love--like they always are--they didn't have to sacrifice being funny to get themselves there. In this movie, the leads are funny, quick-witted, bantering adversaries for the first 30 minutes. Then everything downshifts and turns gooey. She was orphaned as a teen. He has daddy issues. True love is blooming all tenderly and dumb. They have to get married right now before granny dies. It's like someone stepped in, performed an intervention and put the movie on a 12-step program to cure it of laughs.
My Wish For Sandra Bullock, Who I Find Totally Entertaining Almost All The Time, Even When She's In Crap, And Who Isn't Reading This Even Though It's A Direct Address: Be mean. And stay mean. I think you're really great when you're tough and unpleasant like in Miss Congeniality. Or when you're sarcastic and pessimistic like in Speed. So during the first third of this film I thought, "Oh nice, she's just going to be a horrible ball-buster and it's going to be hilarious." And then it all went to hell and you lost your toughness and let your hair down and took off the impossibly angry-looking high heels and became vulnerable. Which is never funny. Could you please, for me, just go with your gut and be the horrible and horribly funny person from start to finish in more than one film every seven years?
Aside From The Funny First Act, Worth Seeing For: All the great shots of a town in Massachusetts that was overhauled to look like Alaska, the state where Reynolds's character comes from. If you don't sit through credits to find out it wasn't shot there, then you'll believe they're really in the northernmost state and it's beautiful enough to make you forget that irritating former vice-presidential candidate.
A freaking movie review, and they still take shots at Sarah Pailn.
Unbelievable. I wonder how the website owners appreciate having their movie website turned into a political blog...........
If it takes a shot at Sarah Palin— I aint’ giving them my hard-earned money. In fact, I will download it off the internet but not even watch it.
I read a movie review of a foreign film which contained the line, “only a cold hearted Republican wouldn’t shed a tear for these children”.
I don’t know if the movie takes a shot at Palin — but the review does.
They just can’t deal with a person who followed the Good Book and got the rewards of Life. Sarah is sunlight to vampires.
It’s official...Palin Derangement Syndrome has surpassed Bush Derangement Syndrome in both it’s completely random and illogical attacks as well as it’s vindictive nastiness...unreal
Why am I not surprised that Dave White, obviously a liberal, enjoys watching chick-flicks?
The political Left is highly irritating.
I guess it's all in one's perspective. My first thought was Joe Biden...
There's a reason why she still terrifies them... SHE'S the only GOP leader whose incredible drawing power and staying power can SPELL DEFEAT FOR THEM IN '12.
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Check this out...
Let you in on a little secret - a fair chunk of movie reviewers (and TV weathermen) are homosexuals.
This is the most sophomoric, immature piece of writing I think I’ve ever read. I find most examples of journalistic writing sophomoric and immature these days, but this takes the cake. All professional standards have been abandoned for tweeny self-expressiveness. This writer probably doesn’t even know who Sarah Palin is. He’s jumped on the diss-Sarah bandwagon, because he can’t think for himself.
Every shot that Palin takes just makes me like her more. I love that she has gotten so far under the skin of lefties.
I don’t understand what the movie has to do with Sarah Palin. The only link is the fact that the movie takes place in Alaska..otherwise, what does it have to do with her
Sarah Palin terrifies the left, because they are afraid that her reverance for life is going to rub off on other women. They are afraid that women are going see that conservative women are sucessful in balancing a healthy marriage and happy family and a career . The left is afraid she is going to steal their thunder if a woman of faith is successful. If Sarah Palin were a God-less liberal Democrat they’d be singing her praises.
Worst movie review ever. I found it almost impossible to follow. How did this guy ever got this job I’ll never know.
Because he’s gay, that’s how. The twerp writes like a 14 year girl, and with that, I am probably insulting a lot of 14 year old girls.
Isn’t the author a pathetic little thing?
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