Wednesday 30 May 2012

The Critical Eye VS Eye Candy

How Do You Rate A Film Like This Means War? (sung to the tune of "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?")




               Ever since I had heard about this film on my regular IMDb rounds, I was really pumped to see a film in which Chris Pine and Tom Hardy fight over Reese Witherspoon. Partly because it sounded fun and the fact that these are good actors that I usually like, but mostly because I am one of those neanderthal women who gets a real kick out of watching two hot guys fight. Especially over a girl. Seriously. I mean I am uncontrollable during the goofy fight scene between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones's Diary. I hoot and cheer and well, act crazy, so you can imagine me during the trailer when Pine and Hardy, who are definitely the more badass opponents in every way, fighting with guns and tables and what not.


                And today, I watched the movie. Let me tell you that my cheeks are paining right now due to all the smiling I did throughout the movie. And I smiled a lot, and really big smiles too. I enjoyed every stupid element in it, just because they were being done by two unbelievably gorgeous men. And they were gorgeous! Especially Chris Pine with his sparkly blue eyes... okay I'm digressing. Anyways, all that was fine until I sat down to rate it. This is the thing- I don't know how. How can I think about a film like this in the same way I think about other films, since my brain was pretty much the last organ I was using while watching it. I was using even my facial muscles more, you know.


                So here's my question- should one always watch a film with a critical eye, or can we occasionally sit back and let the raging hormones and all that do the work and just enjoy all the eye candy? 


Look at that swag (can't believe I just wrote that).


8 comments:

  1. This is the post I've been waiting for. I can't help that I'm a teenager and I get attracted to nice looking men in suits. I haven't seen This Means War but LOOK AT THAT SWAG. That trailer is on the trailer loop disc at the moment at work and I am uncontrollable when I see that swag.

    As much as I love Quiz Show (which I do), that film got 10/10 because Ralph Fiennes is so unbelievably sexy in it. He ruined my life in that movie.

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    1. I'm glad to have answered your prayers :P
      I love men in suits too!!

      Haha, well Quiz Show is an actual good movie. You can use brains in that (as difficult as Ralph Fiennes makes that :P). This Means War is a whole different ball game, but oh so sexy.

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  2. LOL what an awesome post! Great to hear you loved um... certain elements of the film! Doesn't matter why you enjoyed it, that's the beauty of having your very own blog! You rate it how you damn well want to!

    It's like thousands of guys will love Piranha 3D because it's got girls in bikinis. Might not be a great movie but it will put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces!

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    1. Haha thanks! I definitely enjoyed certain elements of the film, namely Ton Hardy and Chris Pine :P
      Yep, love having this blog!

      I get what you mean. Michael Bay made all of his fortune with a similar formula :)

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  3. I don't really think Ton Hardy and Chris Pine are the sexiest men alive, but I still love your post because I've felt like this dozens of times... Having a bad conscience rating a film higher than what my brain thinks it deserves and all that.
    I mean, I still don't know if Remember Me is a good film, the only thing that mattered to me was Robert Pattinson (so much more attractive without the Twilight-sparkles).

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    1. Yeah neither do I. Even though I'm like in love with Pine's eyes right now.

      Oh yeah. I would have liked it too, if it wasn't for that terrible ending. He did look very good.

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  4. Oh, it's always hard to pay attention to the movie when there are handsome men in nice suits. I should know. I went through the exact situation when I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

    I also kind of go through this scenario when I see a Paul Newman movie. I'm completely fine watching it because he was a very good actor, but if it's a movie shot in color and there's a close-up of his face (his eyes are lethal) or he takes his shirt off (same for that chest of his), all bets are off.

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    1. Yep! Haha you really need to focus on TTSS!

      Oh my god- Newman's eyes! So very lethal.

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