HICCUP . . . Rural would, er, like to apologize for, ya know, being gone for so long and missing all the awards season hoopla and such. I accidentally threw his computer down an elevator shaft! HICCUP
He'll be back as soon as those bastards at Apple actually fix the damn thing!
I'm not even going to pretend to be cool or teenage-unaffected about this.
If you've read some of my earlier entries, you might be familiar with the fact that I have quite an unnatural obsession with Matt Singer and Alison Wilmore (pictured above), critics and pocasters for IFC. They have a weekly podcast available through iTunes that is an absolute MUST LISTEN for any film fan. My iPod has over 60 pocasts from them on it, and I listen to at least one of them (and I'm not kidding) pretty much everyday.
Why am I mentioning this? Well, at the end of this week's podcast on 80's nostalgia in modern pop culture, they read some feedback sent to them about last week's podcast on film chemistry. And you know what? THEY READ MY EMAIL!
After laughing about the comment/joke I opened my email with, they proceed to agree with me that Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet had great romantic chemistry in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
There's nothing like having your name read on . . . air(?) by your two heroes to improve your mood on a sucky day.
Anyway, you can listen to the podcast here. They read my letter when there's approximately 3 or so minutes remaining, but I'd really encourage you to listen to the whole thing.
We all know that trailers these days give away too much. So let's see how well we can do at predicting a movie based entirely off of the movie's trailer.
Definitely, Maybe So, based off of the trailer, what we have here is a movie in which Ryan Reynolds is toying with Abigail Breslin by refusing to tell her who her mother is . . . or something. Anyway, the central mystery seems to be the identity of said mother. Is it Rachel Weisz, Elisabeth Banks, or Isla Fischer?
Let's do some eliminating. Elisabeth Banks is really only shown in the past in those trailers which COULD mean she's the mother, and the trailer isn't showing her to us. To me, though, her character just seems to disappear at a certain point. So, not her.
That leaves us with Rachel and Isla. In the trailer, he takes Abigail Breslin to see Isla in the future so either the trailer is giving away WAY too much or that's a red herring. Plus, her character seems wacky and heavens knows how much screenwriters these days like wacky women in romantic comedies.
"Isn't she hillarious," they say. "She treats him like crap/stalks him etc . . . SHE'S PERFECT!" If Fatal Attraction had been written by Nora Ephron, bunny boiling would be just some endearing and quirky character trait that the audience finda adorable.
Then we have Rachel. The trailer doesn't tell us too much about her, really . . . but I think we catch a glimpse of future her in the tv spot. I can't imagine that the spawn of Ryan Reynolds and Rachel Weisz would look anything like Abigail Breslin, but there's always the chance.
Of course, there's always the option that we haven't discussed: the movie isn't going to disclose the identity of the mother, and Ryan Reynolds isn't going to end up with any of the 3 ladies. Instead, he will tell his daughter that the story, "does have a happy ending". He has a daughter who he loves.
AWWWWWWWWWWWW
If I had to guess, that's the ending I see happening. It's possible he will end up with one of the girls in the end, but, if so, it won't be the mother. My guess, Isla as the mother, Rachel as the chosen love . . . but I stil predict the end with just him and his daughter.
And there you have it. What are your predictions? There's no wrong answer until the movie comes out. Definitely . . . well, maybe.
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