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I like this movie the more I watch it....HOWEVER.....

posted 9 years ago by jnoble11
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A couple things stick out to me as odd that many others have pointed out:

Bill Hader and Kristen Wigg appear to have wandered in from a totally different film or a nearby SNL skit.

I didn't buy Ryan Reynolds as a low level maintainance guy at a low-rent amusement park for a second. He's....too handsome and clean cut? Totally takes me out of the movie. They should've cast someone else. Which brings me to...

Reynolds looks and acts like he's 36 in this movie and Kristen Stewart looks and acts like she's 15. So the subplot of them hooking up behind his wifes back had an ick factor. (paging Chris Hanson and the To Catch a Preditor crew!)

Also both Jessie and Kristen had the awkward stammer-look down at your feet-act pensive and-uncertain-about-almost-everything-you-say thing down pat. It gets annoying after awhile even though that's the characters they were playing. Kristen Stewart has made a career out of it though.

Oh, and how exactly did he know just where she lived in NYC and how to get there and that she'd be walking back home at the exact moment he got off the bus? In the dark no less?

[–] PenTheater 9 years ago

You realize you are using your own stereotypes to negate the stereotype characters in a movie?

as far as her walking back home where he got off the bus is not an issue, say he found out where she lived and took the bus there, as for her walking by at that time is just a time cruncher, the story was that they were going to hook up, so why not make it look like fate (people believe in that junk anyway) so
why not have her walking by?

Ephemeron.1

[–] dawnbaxter34 9 years ago

Hader and Wiig were actually doing SNL during the film's shoot and they did all their scenes in only 4 days.

[–] Minus_The_Beer 9 years ago

Hader and Wiig were actually doing SNL during the film's shoot and they did all their scenes in only 4 days.

Um, okay? That's a neat piece of trivia and all that, but I think you missed the OP's point (which I actually agree with, in spite of really enjoying this movie).

Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.

[–] StephieVee 8 years ago

Spot on about the SNL characters being out of place. The romance between Reynolds and Stewart is likely, I guess. And Jesse is the same character movie after movie just like Kristen. Maybe that ps why they are paired together so often on the big screen?

[–] OratiaGlake (1256) a year ago

Reynolds was totally too clean and smart to be the regular maintenance guy!