The idea behind this is simple, short summaries/reviews of
the random things I stumble across on Netflix.
The Pill
It’s a truly magical modern love
story. Boy meets girl; boy goes back to girls apartment; boy assumes girl is on
the pill; boy finds out he was wrong about girl being on the pill; boy
panics. Ok, so maybe it’s not quite that
magical…
After convincing Mindy to take the
morning after pill Fred blows her off using ever classy “I’ll call you” method;
then he’s told Anna needs to take the second part dose of medication 12 hours
later and is forced to spent the day with her to make sure she takes it. Obviously the rest of the day is stupidly
cheesy and entirely predictable but surely that’s the point of romantic comedies!
Weirdly I enjoyed this, not one
I’ll re-watch or one I’ll probably even remember in twelve months’ time but if
you’re after a light hearted, slightly different rom-com with an hour and a
half to spare I’d recommend it.
The Words
The words a film about the story
of a book being told within another book. My head hurts trying to find a good
way to word how intertwined the books are.
Reading the little summary
Netflix gives you I was expecting something similar to Limitless, maybe just
because it’s the same actor, I’m not sure.
Struggling writer comes across an extremely easy but not entirely
ethical way to achieve him dreams but once he’s there he has to deal with the
consequences and baggage associated with how he got there – actually that is a
very similar plot to Limitless! Bradley
Cooper really has had a lot of practise at that troubled pensive look.
Honestly – it’s not great and I’m
struggling to put it into a genre. Defiantly not a comedy, there’s no action or
adventure. It’s just a film about a book
and I suppose lightly about morality..?
It did teach me one thing though;
how to get rid of brain freeze – how had I never know that until now!
The Giant Mechanical Man
Honestly, I have no idea what
even happened in this film; a 30-something year old woman breaks up with her
boyfriend and moves into her sister while she tries to work out what to do with
her life. Out of ideas she takes a job
at a concession stand at a zoo where she meets Tim, who is of course
wonderful. Ok, so maybe I paid some attention.
I want to call this a rom-com but
it wasn’t laugh out loud funny; by no means a bad film but not much happened and
when she started working at the zoo I was hoping there’d be animals. The title is extremely random and if the
street artists similar to the ones you get a lot around Covent Garden in London
freak you out I’d advise you stay away from this one.
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