November 21st, 2007
Another reason not to see P.S. I Love You
Apart from the mind-numbing source material (boring plot, badly written, one-dimensional characters, dodgy nepotistic references to Westlife being the main character’s favourite band), the woeful Irish accents, the schmaltzy representation of grief, the fact that they had to get a Scottish actor to play the Irish guy, there’s another reason to not bother catching the big screen version of P.S. I Love You.
James Blunt is on the soundtrack. Enough said.
P.S. I Love You opens here on December 21st. If you REALLY want to watch the trailer, it’s here.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Hilary’s Wank. I hate her.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:44 pm
The title would be enough to keep me away for sure…….
November 21st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Who sends letters in this day and age anyway… Oh, he’s dead? No, that doesn’t explain it either..
November 21st, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Chick & Flick. No & Thanks.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
The trailer has to be the sappiest thing I’ve seen all year. Pure car crash viewing. I think I’ll be giving this one an even wider berth than Tara Road (which I eventually ended up having to screen for work… it almost killed me… definite contenders for worst Irish accents on film!)
November 21st, 2007 at 2:21 pm
If Hallmark did grief, this is probably what it would look like…
November 21st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Nuff definitely said.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Wargh! Perfect for the soundtrack really though. When you think about it. My friend was an extra on this for, like, one day, until she quit. At the end of that first day, there was a big queue to get out of Whelan’s (where they were shooting) and some woman gave her a big shove to get past her and my pal was about to tell her to fuck off and wait like everyone else had to but it turned out it was Hilary, so my pal just stared. So there, Hilary pushes small women out of her way. Allegedly.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Yes, I love that she listens to a dead guy tell her what to do. Creepy. Move on already.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I met Gerard Butler once, at HMV on Grafton St, where I used to work. I bored him to tears with some crap about CD cleaners, then he asked a colleague and I if we knew anything about the Meteor Awards — because he was presenting one that evening. Thing is, we had no clue who he was! Oh, those were fun times…
November 21st, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Twenty, ah you clever clogs.
Manuel, the title is one of the lesser evils.
National Disgrace, it’s a flimsy premise. Throw in bad writing and a tedious plot with characters you hate and you have a few reasons to lay off it.
Jim Dubh, I like film. I’m a girl. I hate chick flicks.
Catherine, it’s definitely sappy but not nearly as drivelly as Tara Road (which is pretty bad).
Claire, if Hallmark did ’sorry you’re film’s crap’ cards, this is probably what it would look like…
Fence, will you go and see it?
Edel, who does La Swank think she is? Heard they shot some of it in Whelan’s alright…
Medbh, indeed, but then the women in these books who think they’re independent and liberated are just chasing husbands and, quite often, money. Virginia Woolf would be delighted.
MacDara, what else has Butler done? He looks vaguely familiar but I can’t think of anything else he’s been in.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:07 pm
But did you really think any of your discerning readers would go to see it anyway?
November 21st, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Yes, I love that she listens to a dead guy tell her what to do.
Thank you for making me remember Patrick Swayze! Yikes!
I like film. I’m a girl. I hate chick flicks.
*Scoff* Sell-out!
November 21st, 2007 at 7:39 pm
it turned out it was Hilary, so my pal just stared. So there, Hilary pushes small women out of her way. Allegedly.
What a cunt. She needs to pick on her own kind, so if there are any weird, androgynous looking people reading this please punch Hilary in the face. With an anvil.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Something to ruminate on…
a snippet from an ace film critic in Canada,
JOHANNA SCHNELLER from Globe and Mail
“No phrase gets my back up like “chick flick,” and not because it offends me as a woman. It offends me as a human. I cannot believe that caring about relationships, developing friendships and raising children — the hallmarks of chick-flickism — are the concerns of women exclusively. If I were a man, I’d be appalled by that limitation.”
This film doesn’t sound like chick flick. Just an appallingly bad flick.
Gerald Butler was probably cast in this role as his hunkdom was established in 300 (sic).Heterosexual women and gay men swooned over him infinitum (roll eyes).
November 21st, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Hi Sinead,
Gerald Butler was in 300 and The Phantom of the Opera,
the trailer is so bad, Lisa Kudrow comes out the worst I think,
D.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:45 am
Gerard Butler’s accent…why?? I mean…why?? B.S I Love You more like
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Sang - That is all well and good, so long as the converse of crime, high-speed car chases, shallow long-legged women in tight mini-skirts, and multiple wanton acts of death and destruction not needing to be the exclusive concerns of men also holds true.
I suggest a compromise therefore of “Charlie’s Angels” on which we can all agree!
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
The time I met Butler, his only role of note was in Dracula 2001 — which I haven’t seen, so obviously I was clueless to who he was.
November 22nd, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I just watched the trailer. I think it’s only fair that I’m now allowed kill 5 people.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
But…some nights when it’s raining, dark, you’ve been round the shops and still not found a christmas present for your dad and you’re tired and ratty and pre-menstrual, what’s wrong with a bag of maltesers, a huge diet coke and a chick flick? (I’m ignoring the James Blunt implication here) It also has the sexy guy in it who played Danny in Grey’s Anatomy. Drool.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Red, I’d like to think anyone who reads this blog can make up their own mind and won’t take any of my rants on any subject as gospel.
Jim, so are girls not allowed to like The Terminator and Die Hard?
Sang, Johanna Schneller makes a good point.
David, I thought Lisa was the one with the most credible film career post-Friends, what’s she doing in this? God knows…
Twenty - which 5? And with a face like Hilary’s I’m guessing someone may already have clocked her with an anvil. She’s very pretty, but crikey that’s one angular face.
EW, absolutely nowt at all. I just find most chick flicks a bit… icky. There are a few exceptions (Bridget Jones, Beaches, Legally Blonde, Steel Magnolias) but I hate the implication that they’re being marketed at ME purely because I’m female. And most recent Hollywood efforts have been woefully bad. I take the view that life’s too short and there are too many good films I could be watching? So when I fancy curling up with a bag of maltesers and the duvet, I’m happy enough for it to be a decent film I want to see. For the last two weeks I’ve been ODing on a Hitchcock boxset I got. Would highly recommend it.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Well haha a gota disagree this is an amazin film n the irish accent with his amazin body makes it great xD use wudnt no a gud film wen u seen it :L