Showing posts with label Josh Duhamel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Josh Duhamel. Show all posts
It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This
Anyone who has had kids has had the discussion. In the unfortunate situation where both parents would pass away at the same time, who would care for their children? Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Eric’s (Josh Duhamel) best friends have chose them, and the unexpected has happened. Now it’s up to them to raise Sophie and try to maintain lives that are almost total opposites.
They tried to date, a long time ago, and it was an unmitigated disaster. In fact Holly and Eric don’t like each other one bit. Being forced to live together, under the same roof, and raise a child was not in either of their plans. Can they make it work? That is, can they make it work without killing each other?
They both try to keep their lives, jobs and dating in tact, but this will be a bigger challenge than either of them expected. Will they make it? Or will Sophie end up getting lost in the cracks.
Have you seen the trailers for this film? If you have, you’ve seen this movie. This really disappointed me. You head through a roller coaster of emotions as one point tries to be funny and then abruptly we switch to a more serious moment. There seems to be a lack of flow, though that is what can happen in this type of relationship.
Heigl has played this role before, so there is not much memorable from that standpoint. I did like Duhamel as Eric, but this seems like something that is right in his wheelhouse from an acting perspective.
Overall the film was way too uneven and disjointed to get excited about. Women will like it more than men, but only slightly. And, please, despite the cute baby in the commercials – this is PG-13 and if you think your 8-10 year old will like it, you may be red faced more than once. Life As We Know It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
C-
Life As We Know It
Warner Brothers Pictures
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas
Rating: PG-13 for sexual material, language and some drug content.
Runtime: 112 minutes.
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Anyone who has had kids has had the discussion. In the unfortunate situation where both parents would pass away at the same time, who would care for their children? Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Eric’s (Josh Duhamel) best friends have chose them, and the unexpected has happened. Now it’s up to them to raise Sophie and try to maintain lives that are almost total opposites.
They tried to date, a long time ago, and it was an unmitigated disaster. In fact Holly and Eric don’t like each other one bit. Being forced to live together, under the same roof, and raise a child was not in either of their plans. Can they make it work? That is, can they make it work without killing each other?
They both try to keep their lives, jobs and dating in tact, but this will be a bigger challenge than either of them expected. Will they make it? Or will Sophie end up getting lost in the cracks.
Have you seen the trailers for this film? If you have, you’ve seen this movie. This really disappointed me. You head through a roller coaster of emotions as one point tries to be funny and then abruptly we switch to a more serious moment. There seems to be a lack of flow, though that is what can happen in this type of relationship.
Heigl has played this role before, so there is not much memorable from that standpoint. I did like Duhamel as Eric, but this seems like something that is right in his wheelhouse from an acting perspective.
Overall the film was way too uneven and disjointed to get excited about. Women will like it more than men, but only slightly. And, please, despite the cute baby in the commercials – this is PG-13 and if you think your 8-10 year old will like it, you may be red faced more than once. Life As We Know It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
C-
Life As We Know It
Warner Brothers Pictures
Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, Josh Lucas
Rating: PG-13 for sexual material, language and some drug content.
Runtime: 112 minutes.
Safe Haven Protects Sparks’ Turf
Nicholas Sparks is it when it comes to romance. Women swoon just knowing that a Sparks’ novel is coming to the big screen. And he has been known to deliver a story that puts couples together combining the beautiful and interesting people. Sitting down to Safe Haven, I knew I wasn’t really in my wheelhouse, but I thought I would give it a ride.
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Here’s this Sparks journey.
A young woman named Katie (Julianne Hough) has ran from a problem. After jumping on a bus headed south, she just looks to find a place where she can blend in and start again, but why?
Here journey brings her to Alex’s (Josh Duhamel) little shop on the coast in the Carolinas. It is there that Katie begins to start again. Far from the problems she left behind, Katie begins to learn how to live again. As she starts to accept Alex and his family, the realization that not all behavior is like what existed in her life in the North. But can she fully accept him?
With the help of a nice neighbor Jo (Colbie Smulders), she will get some encouragement and lessons on how to love again. Accepting the kindness of strangers and moving forward instead of looking back will become her goal. But can she really put the past behind her?
In typical Sparks’ film fashion, we are treated to two likable main characters portrayed by Duhamel and Hough. They are people that we want to see succeed, even if we don’t know the back story on Hough. Throw in Colbie Smulders and we’ve got a really attractive, talented cast.
The story is there, and I can imagine this being a fabulous book. Sparks tells a good tale that takes trouble and turns it to love. He takes the simple and makes it beautiful. But as can be the challenge with Sparks’ stories, the transition to the screen is not always easy. And that is the case with Safe Haven.
Where the film fails the audience is the clunky manner in which the Sparks story translates to the screen. Transitions felt disjointed and out of place. Leaps of faith that, I’m sure must have been explained better in the book, leave you wondering and wanting more. But despite these issues, Safe Haven is still a film that will resonate with its target audience.
Nicholas Sparks provides a respite for romance fans and they will be happy to know that their haven is safe in this film.
B-
Relativity MediaDirector: Lasse Hallstrom
Cast: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Colbie SmuldersRating: PG-13 for thematic material involving threatening behavior and violence and sexuality.
Runtime: 1 hours 55 minutes