Friday, 26 December 2008
My First Movie Write-Up
Made of Honor is a movie about playboy, Tom, and art enthusiast, Hannah, who got to know each other through a mistaken almost-romp. 10 years down and they have become best friends. Tom supposedly is the inventor of the coffee collar and got rich. (Duh...) If one did not know, the coffee collar is the brown heat-insulating ring one gets when you get a takeaway from Starbucks.
So how does rich playboy with no job spends his Sundays? Oddly, a day out in NYC with Hannah. It's so a date (and a cute date at that), but they don't call it that or else, everyone would have guessed what happens. But shock factor and mystery are not exactly chick-flick specialities. They even have a routine on the day out. It's so sweet. Now I would love to linger around here and keep going on about the weekly date but I like to finish this review by this year. So, Hannah tells Tom that she got permission for some art piece (or something) in Scotland, land of kilt-wearing-bag-pipe-playing-Loch-Ness-monster-plushie-of-mine. (Haha, gotcha there.) And so, she had to spend 6 weeks there. In that 6 weeks, Hannah manages to land a duke, gets engaged and decides to get married in Scotland 2 weeks after she goes back to New York to spread the news. ( One must give credit for the girls ambition) All this while, Tom only begins to realise his feelings for Hannah (slow-much?).
Back in NYC, Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor (Title, people...) and he reluctantly agrees. Eventually they all get to Scotland, and he manages to say those 3 magic words oh-so-known to regular chick-flickers at the wedding (very last minute. Haven't seen it any other way). Hannah then proceeds to dump the well-to-do Scottie and they get married in NYC. Predictable plot? No? At least that's out of the way.
So, why did I decide to write up on this chick flick when there were million others I could choose from? Err, I guess that would be because it's the latest one I watched (outdated, I know) and I like the comedy present in this one.
My favourite gag would have to be aloof Granma Pearl with her glow-in-the-dark-thunder-beads which she got free at Hannah's bridal shower. (Lucky gal) For those who didn't know (like Granma Pearl), it's a sex toy. For the anus. But as she doesn't know (and no one seems to want to enlighten the old soul) she has it around her neck the whole movie and it's absolutely glowing! Not to mention, it totally matches her earrings. She's just so adorable and kinky. Lol...
Besides this, there were quite a few other funny moments (One of my other favourite would be the "Atthol" lienage one) , some better than others, but they were all rather subtle and I guess that's what I like about it. Maybe I'm just tired of all the funny-at-any-IQ-and-we-even-make-sure-to-point-it-out-multiple-times ha has...
Overall, Made of Honor is a chick flick that even manly men could enjoy (at least partly) as it is told from a man's perspective (with a woman's touch of course) about finding the perfect partner for oneself, pursuing what or in this case, who you really desire with all your heart and the magic of those three words, "I love you".
Random quote that popped out of thin air.
" The three words of confirmation of absolute affection would only impact the recepient as much as it does the sender when both have found the one. "
So how does rich playboy with no job spends his Sundays? Oddly, a day out in NYC with Hannah. It's so a date (and a cute date at that), but they don't call it that or else, everyone would have guessed what happens. But shock factor and mystery are not exactly chick-flick specialities. They even have a routine on the day out. It's so sweet. Now I would love to linger around here and keep going on about the weekly date but I like to finish this review by this year. So, Hannah tells Tom that she got permission for some art piece (or something) in Scotland, land of kilt-wearing-bag-pipe-playing-Loch-Ness-monster-plushie-of-mine. (Haha, gotcha there.) And so, she had to spend 6 weeks there. In that 6 weeks, Hannah manages to land a duke, gets engaged and decides to get married in Scotland 2 weeks after she goes back to New York to spread the news. ( One must give credit for the girls ambition) All this while, Tom only begins to realise his feelings for Hannah (slow-much?).
Back in NYC, Hannah asks Tom to be her maid of honor (Title, people...) and he reluctantly agrees. Eventually they all get to Scotland, and he manages to say those 3 magic words oh-so-known to regular chick-flickers at the wedding (very last minute. Haven't seen it any other way). Hannah then proceeds to dump the well-to-do Scottie and they get married in NYC. Predictable plot? No? At least that's out of the way.
So, why did I decide to write up on this chick flick when there were million others I could choose from? Err, I guess that would be because it's the latest one I watched (outdated, I know) and I like the comedy present in this one.
My favourite gag would have to be aloof Granma Pearl with her glow-in-the-dark-thunder-beads which she got free at Hannah's bridal shower. (Lucky gal) For those who didn't know (like Granma Pearl), it's a sex toy. For the anus. But as she doesn't know (and no one seems to want to enlighten the old soul) she has it around her neck the whole movie and it's absolutely glowing! Not to mention, it totally matches her earrings. She's just so adorable and kinky. Lol...
Besides this, there were quite a few other funny moments (One of my other favourite would be the "Atthol" lienage one) , some better than others, but they were all rather subtle and I guess that's what I like about it. Maybe I'm just tired of all the funny-at-any-IQ-and-we-even-make-sure-to-point-it-out-multiple-times ha has...
Overall, Made of Honor is a chick flick that even manly men could enjoy (at least partly) as it is told from a man's perspective (with a woman's touch of course) about finding the perfect partner for oneself, pursuing what or in this case, who you really desire with all your heart and the magic of those three words, "I love you".
Random quote that popped out of thin air.
" The three words of confirmation of absolute affection would only impact the recepient as much as it does the sender when both have found the one. "
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