Posts tagged Jennifer Aniston
Horrible Bosses – Movie Trailer
Jul 13th
For Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day), the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston) into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con (Jamie Foxx), the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers… permanently. There’s only one problem: even the best laid plans are only as foolproof as the brains behind them.
“Just Go With It” Thanks, but No Thanks
Feb 17th
“Thanks, but No Thanks”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
JUST GO WITH IT reminds me of that old joke that is an example of a backhanded compliment: “You know, for a fat girl, she doesn’t sweat much.”
In other words, for an Adam Sandler movie, it has Jennifer Aniston and Nicole Kidman in it.
Here is another example: For an Adam Sandler movie, it has beautiful Hawaiian scenery in it, as well as a beautiful swimsuit model by the name of Brooklyn Decker.
And then when you learn that this embarrassment of a movie is a remake of the delightful 1969 CACTUS FLOWER starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn in an Academy Award-winning performance, you have to admit that of all the Hollywood remakes of previous films, this is one of them.
After all, even the 1969 movie was a remake of a Broadway play, which was a remake of a French play, which for all we know could have been a remake of one of Aristophene’s lost Greek comedies.
Here is this century’s version of the plot: Sandler plays Danny, a plastic surgeon who years ago had his heart broken when he overheard his fiancee and her bridesmaids talking about him on the day of their wedding, which broke his heart and caused him to call off the wedding.
Danny accidentally discovered that wearing a wedding ring even though he wasn’t married was a chick magnet, and he says, “Being fake married is the only way I can be sure I’ll never get my heart broken again.”
He is a pig, right, Ladies?
Then one day Danny meets Palmer, played by the swimsuit model, and he decides that she is “the one.” After all, what man wouldn’t fall in love with a swimsuit model?
Unfortunately, Palmer discovers Danny’s fake wedding ring even though he isn’t wearing it, she likes him well enough to want to marry him, but first she insists on meeting Danny’s “soon-to-be divorced wife.”
So, Danny does what any pig would do. He talks his assistant, Katherine, played by Jennifer Aniston, into posing as his wife in order to keep the ruse up, and how long do you think it takes the audience to say, “I know where this is going”?
Right, after they have already paid to see it.
JUST GO WITH IT caused me to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.”
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
Just Go With It – Movie Trailer
Feb 16th
In Just Go With It, a plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant’s kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.