ALL ABOUT STEVE
CAROLINE: The new movie “All About Steve” features Sandra Bullock in yet another romantic comedy despite her many claims that she’s not doing them anymore.
RYAN: So why go ahead a do one that makes you look like a total nerd?
CAROLINE: Oh my God, her hair! I pray it was a wig. It’s virtually a mullet; which is fine, because she’s supposed to be a geek and socially awkward. But she’s just annoying in this movie. And her face is still really pretty, so the whole nerdy thing didn’t really work. You can’t just put a bad hairstyle on a gorgeous Hollywood actress and make me believe she’s uncool.
RYAN: You know I love a rom com so I’m bummed I didn’t get to see this with you. But from you’ve told me, it sounds like it’s not worth seeing.
CAROLINE: Believe me, you missed nothing. It was pretty painful. I barely laughed even once and a couple times people were laughing out loud at the movie, not with it.
RYAN: That’s tragic. How was Bradley Cooper?
CAROLINE: Hot, as always. He filmed this movie pre-“Hangover,” and I suspect he wouldn’t have signed on for it if he knew he was going to have this new found fame. He made the movie enjoyable for me. And I like Thomas Haden Church too. So at least the cast is good.
RYAN: What was so bad about the rest of it?
CAROLINE: The script is just awful. The dialogue is painfully lame at times; it’s a wonder to me that they got such a good cast to sign on. The only redeeming thing for me, a crossword geek, is that Sandra Bullock’s character is a crossword puzzle constructor. So there were a lot of fun references to the New York Times puzzle, its editor Will Shortz and other stuff that crossword people care about.
RYAN: I remember thinking from the trailer that the premise seemed good. I like that she’s a bad dater with no love life who breaks all the dating rules and does dumb stuff that someone much younger would normally do.
CAROLINE: It’s not a bad premise, but the scenarios she gets herself into are just so random and not believable. And Sandra tries to play awkward, but all she does to convey that is put a weird speech affect on her S’s and it’s rather irritating.
RYAN: Maybe a different actress would have been better in the role.
CAROLINE: I don’t know; the writing was just so weak. I can’t say I hated it though because of the cast. It’s never a bad thing to look at Bradley Cooper for an hour and forty minutes.
— BOTTOM LINE —
CAROLINE: It’s almost embarrassing for all involved how lame this movie was. The saving grace is the cast, but it’s neither funny nor romantic. I seriously don’t know how Sandra Bullock got involved in producing and starring in this movie, but I’m embarrassed for her most of all. She’s better than this.
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