I have had a Sunday of bliss. I've been to see two movies that I thought were excellent.
It is loosely based on the eponymous book that was mentioned in Sex and the City, and has a few Sex and City elements, i.e., talking heads about relationships.
The stories centre around an all-star cast. They are interconnected and the movie is based in Baltimore, where twenty - and thirtysomethings try to navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life. They try reading the signs of the opposite sex, each hopes to be the exception to the "no exceptions" rule.
The cast includes Drew Barrymore - in a minor role (she also produced), Scarlett Johansson (she is really beautiful and the camera loves her, Jennifer Connelly (stunning beyond belief (Labyrinth 1986 movie with David Bowie, Dark Water and the Day My Brain Stood Still - sorry The Day The Earth Stood Still - to name but a few), Ben Affleck (it's amazing he gets time to make movies with the babies he is producing with Jennifer Garner) , Jennifer Aniston (always watchable although she had really flyaway hair on top - don't ask me why I noticed that, but I did), Bradley Cooper (can't remember seeing him before, but my God he is scrumptious looking), Kris Kristofferson (looking very good), to name but a few.
It does provide insights as to how men and women see dating and relationships and of course we all know how I like chick flicks, but I think guys will enjoy this one too. A good chick flick is always better than a bad one and this is a good film. It takes a while to get the interconnectivity and at the beginning I would have benefitted from a chart. I thought the storylines worked well and were resolved well, with endings you'd expect and some you didn't.
Well worth a couple of your earth hours. I'd happily see it again.
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