Yesterday was a busybusy day, full of bridesmaid business. Lunch, makeup for the bride (oh heck, and for me, too. Curse you, Sephora!), some ceremony decor items, chilling, dinner, and a romantic girly movie, Letters to Juliet. Before the movie started, there was mucho squealing after an Eclipse preview was shown. Lots of "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" exclamations. Can this end now, pleasepleasepleaseplease? The books were all right, okay? They weren't particularly well-written and most of the characters are MORONS. Especially Bella. I have not seen either of the other two movies and I'm not planning on it (even to see a bunch of teenage werewolves without shirts on.) Arrrgh.
Sorry, where was I? Oh, yes, the movie. Well, it was your predictable rom-com fare. Sophie is engaged to a moron, and invites her three dads to the wedding ceremony - oh, wait!! Wrong Amanda Seyfried movie. In Letters to Juliet, Sophie is engaged to a moron and they go to Italy on a pre-wedding honeymoon. That is not as awesome as it sounds - he is on business (he is a chef)and spends his time dragging her around to wineries, looking at old cheese and so on. She says no, she wants to sightsee, and he can look at smelly cheese without her. Right on, girl!
She goes to Juliet's house and discovers a strange phenomenon - heartbroken women write letters to Juliet, asking for love advice (uh, why exactly? Juliet didn't have such a brilliant track record, if you think about it...) and some ladies take the letters down and respond to them. Sophie finds a really old one, hidden away and answers it. Claire Smith (one of the Redgraves - Vanessa, maybe?) gets the letter and comes back to Verona to find her long lost Lorenzo, bringing her crabby (but hunky) grandson along with her. Sophie joins them on Lorenzo-quest, which crabby grandson heartily disapproves of. and, oh, I am sure you can figure out where this is going. She believes in true love and he thinks it's all "bollocks." She writes down her experiences and magically gets published in the New Yorker where she had been employed as a fact checker.
As I said above, predictable rom-com fare, but sweet, adorable and really nice to look at. The leads are pretty and all the shots of Italy made me think of my travels there a few years ago. I just couldn't stop smiling at the scenes of lovely golden sun drenched fields, tall sunflowers, the piazza in Siena, all with an Italian pop music soundtrack (an Italian version of "I'm a Believer" was my favorite). We had a fun audience who went "awww" and clapped every time there was a happy development (which was often). That made me smile, too. It was just a cute little happy romantic movie, and it was a nice way to spend an evening.
Sidebar here though - when did the Village Crossing theaters become so skanky? There was a cop hovering around in the lobby (he held the door for us). Given the fact that the main attraction there was the new Shrek movie, filled with parents and kids, what did they think was going to happen? We passed another cop on the way out (maybe it was the same cop?) which was kinda weird....
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