Thank you, thank you, thank you, spacehogwarts. Most of the time I'm hopelessly susceptible to romantic comedies, but when I saw this in the theater, I almost walked out (and in my entire life I've only walked out of three movies, two of them freebies and one that I saw later with a less unruly audience).
Anyway, to return to the theme, yes, Anna Scott was totally unsympathetic -- self-absorbed, disloyal, completely unwilling to keep the conversation going when awkward stretches hit. If a person with power can't be bothered to be nice to people who can't do anything for her, I'd say she wasn't worth the first glance, let alone anything more.
The script could have given Anna some interesting quirks or a sense of humor (The flaky Carrie in Four Weddings and a Funeral had at least some warmth and wit), but I was left with the impression that virtually all of the supporting characters were not only nicer, more interesting people, but better friends as well.
If the intention was to remind us all that dating/marrying a famous person is not all it's cracked up to be, the film succeeds. But apparently it was intended as a love story. Not for me it isn't.
Please, IMDB, no more of those brainless threads about how so-and-so looks like so-and-so.
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