Day 158: I Give It A Year

A couple realise that married life isn’t the fairytale they were quite expecting but they agree to try and wait a year to see if that’s what they need.

If you’ve both realised that there’s a problem and you know you’re not right for each other then why wait a year? Just bloody end it now and you can stop making each other miserable. Nat (Rose Byrne) was getting annoyed at Josh (Rafe Spall) for always being in the house and not taking the bin out/putting the toilet seat down, but surely they lived together before they were married so she would’ve known all this before now? I mean, it was never said if they did live together or not beforehand but who gets married without living together first nowadays? I just don’t believe that they wouldn’t have been aware of their incompatibility long before now.

There were some laughs but overall, it was a bit boring. I didn’t really care what was happening and the ending seemed a bit implausible.

5/10

Day 136: What's Your Number?

Ally (Anna Faris) reads in a magazine that the average number of sexual partners women have  in their lifetime is 10.5 and that if your number is more than 20 then you’re less likely to get married. She is currently at number 19 and that same night she hits the 20 mark. Not wanting to go any higher, she decides to go back through her exes and see if she’ll end up with one of them. In order to track them down she enlists the help of her neighbour Colin (Chris Evans).

The synopsis on IMDb says, “A woman looks back at the past twenty men she's had relationships with in her life and wonders if one of them might be her one true love.” That would make you think that perhaps Ally had decided what was best for her and thought she’d find what she was looking for in a past relationship. But you would be wrong in thinking that. In the film she is essentially slut-shamed into not going any higher than 20 and she only decides to trawl through her exes because she doesn’t want to be a woman with a higher number than 20 because guys don’t like it. Which makes me want to explode. At one point she tells a guy that she’s had 20 partners and he actually says “yuck.” Her friends try to make her feel bad about it and one of them says that women who have sex with lots of different guys have low self-esteem. I’m not saying that’s not maybe true of some women but that’s not just universally true. Some women just like sex and they enjoy it with more than one partner. And it’s not “gross” and it doesn’t say anything about who the woman is herself. So, enoooough.

Once you ignore the ridiculous plot of the film, it’s alright. There are some funny bits and Colin was sweet. But seriously, people of the planet. It doesn’t matter if you have sex with lots of different people or if you don’t have sex at all. All that matters is that it’s what you want.

5/10

Day 75: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

An inventor who causes chaos in his town pretty much constantly thinks he has stumbled upon the creation that will save the people of his town from a life of only eating sardines; he’s going to turn water into food. And he manages it but the machine goes a bit haywire and ends up in the clouds where it takes in massive amounts of water and therefore produces massive amounts of food. It rains food, basically. That is the gist.

Flint is a great character. I love that he keeps on making new things even if they don’t always turn out how he expected. He’s left alone by the people in the town because they think he’s a nerd (which is apparently a bad thing? I never understood the nerd hate) and because his inventions usually spell trouble. So he’s left pretty much to himself which gives him all the time in the world to be awesome. Then along comes a lady who understands his inventions and is just as excited about them as he is and he’s instantly smitten (you can tell because his eyes go all huge and sparkly, that is the universal sign, I’m sure I don’t need to point that out to you). Her favourite food is Jell-O so he makes her a giant Jell-O mountain and carves out the inside so it’s got a piano and a huge chute and it is just excellent, I’d have proposed immediately if I was her. Is there any way to talk about someone you like without sounding like a teenager? “I ‘like you’ like you”? There is no adult way to say it, is there? I guess you can just say ‘I like you’ but then if you’re friends already, it’s like, of course you like me, we’re chums, no? We need a new way to say it. “I like you as more than a friend” is not a good way to say it, it sounds so weird to me. Suggestions!

The amount of parental love in this film is just great. You hear snippets of conversations between parents and their kids and they’re telling them they love them. And the town cop is always telling his son he loves him, and then he saves him from the foodalanche like a champ. Then there’s obviously the heartfelt moment between the proud father who didn’t always believe in his son and the son who thought his father never supported him. Ugh, it’s so sweet.

Right, so, I know it’s a stupid film but I actually loved it. The only cop in town has chest hair that moves when there’s a problem, I mean, come on! There was science, and jokes, and romance, and food, I don’t really know what else you could want, friends.

7/10