Reading some critics' reviews, and the online IMDb votes, I was expecting a really bad movie. I was shocked to find not only a NOT bad movie. and not only an "OK" movie, but what, for me, was a really great movie! Of course I am a solid Sandra Bullock fan. I thought this movie took some interesting elements (Thomas Hayden Church's characters, for example, are usually so smarmy and sleazy they are unpleasant to see, especially given that he is such a good actor, he pulls the worst out of his characters), and played them together very well.
Fortunately, we don't all admire or like the same things in the opposite sex. What many often cluck over in celebrity ladies often leaves me cold, feeling as if I had brushed up against a self-absorbed block of ice. Bullock's on-screen persona is always a warm, earthy, personable sort. Matey. Chummy. It's the films, of course, so her traits are artificially heightened, but I LIKE those kinds of women in the real world. From all that I hear and have seen over the years, Bullock seems to be the real deal--- her on-screen persona is not terribly far from her real life personality. Whatever... but the point is that she brings a loveliness and kindness to her roles that I enjoy.
The critics have been unfairly beating up on this movie, I think. Granted, it's a rom-com, and a bit silly, but if I wanted hard-core reality, or gritty tragedy, I'd watch the news, or "Schindler's List" or something. I'd stay home and stare at my friends, or in the mirror, for free. I want to be delighted and uplifted at the cinema, and this film did exactly that. Hurray for Sandra Bullock and the "All About Steve" production team!
Fortunately, we don't all admire or like the same things in the opposite sex. What many often cluck over in celebrity ladies often leaves me cold, feeling as if I had brushed up against a self-absorbed block of ice. Bullock's on-screen persona is always a warm, earthy, personable sort. Matey. Chummy. It's the films, of course, so her traits are artificially heightened, but I LIKE those kinds of women in the real world. From all that I hear and have seen over the years, Bullock seems to be the real deal--- her on-screen persona is not terribly far from her real life personality. Whatever... but the point is that she brings a loveliness and kindness to her roles that I enjoy.
The critics have been unfairly beating up on this movie, I think. Granted, it's a rom-com, and a bit silly, but if I wanted hard-core reality, or gritty tragedy, I'd watch the news, or "Schindler's List" or something. I'd stay home and stare at my friends, or in the mirror, for free. I want to be delighted and uplifted at the cinema, and this film did exactly that. Hurray for Sandra Bullock and the "All About Steve" production team!