Post by sjankis630 on Apr 28, 2013 23:17:30 GMT -4
I went to see this with friends this weekend and thought it was lazy and pretty bad. The actors didn't even look motivated to be there and the plot- which in a movie like this I admit is not that important - was just silly.
When you do a movie about a marriage which is a romcom you generally have a couple of choices on how you want to go.
1) you really show the couple as deeply in love and make it all about them getting together and overcoming some misunderstanding/plot device to find happiness or
2) you don't spend any time really setting up the couple as it is really about their idiotic/controlling parents and so you make it hilarious instead and everyone forgets how stupid the story was and just laughs.
The Big Wedding was the 2) type of movie but instead of being funny it was just sad, lazy and possibly the greatest waste of talent in a movie in the last decade.
No one really tries and the whole thing looks like some sort of half baked acting seminar that was put on by famous actors at a lake resort paid to act in the movie for the sake of the audience.
I will say this, Susan Sarandon looked great for a 66 year old woman. Has she had work done recently?
Romcom lovers flame away.
Seriously though - there was some major talent here slumming so low I could see their pajama bottoms showing.
When you do a movie about a marriage which is a romcom you generally have a couple of choices on how you want to go.
1) you really show the couple as deeply in love and make it all about them getting together and overcoming some misunderstanding/plot device to find happiness or
2) you don't spend any time really setting up the couple as it is really about their idiotic/controlling parents and so you make it hilarious instead and everyone forgets how stupid the story was and just laughs.
The Big Wedding was the 2) type of movie but instead of being funny it was just sad, lazy and possibly the greatest waste of talent in a movie in the last decade.
No one really tries and the whole thing looks like some sort of half baked acting seminar that was put on by famous actors at a lake resort paid to act in the movie for the sake of the audience.
I will say this, Susan Sarandon looked great for a 66 year old woman. Has she had work done recently?
Romcom lovers flame away.
Seriously though - there was some major talent here slumming so low I could see their pajama bottoms showing.
