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April's Shower (2003)
OK with it until you start to think about it at the end
Where to begin with this movie that tried to be good, that I wanted to be good and that ended up not achieving either goal. I really liked this movie when I watched it, it kept me entertained, I laughed at some of the comedy, and I was glad that there was a happy ending. But upon further reflection I was entertained by a shoddy story, there wasn't enough laughter and the ending didn't make sense and now seems a little forced.
So what went wrong? I think this movie had too many story lines trying to compete for attention and so to fit them all in leaps had to be made to move them along and those leaps made them feel artificial. Like the story line about the mother finding out that her daughter is a lesbian. First there's a fight, then the mother prays to the saints for her daughter to not be gay, then she can't understand why her daughter is gay, then all she wants is for her happiness and finally she schemes to get her daughter and the main character together. Now all these points along a plot would be tough to tackle in its own movie let alone tackling along with 10 other plot points, so by the end we have a converted mother who we never really could see or understand why she converted when she did.
This alone is frustrating except when you add people who don't progress very far, as one reviewer said one dimensional characters who only stick to their one ad nauseum story and then hook ups left and right that don't make sense. And then the ending where (stay with me) the lesbian turns straight, the straight becomes a lesbian (again) and the gay guy gets a few stereotypical lines about a dress fitting him. All in all a frustrating movie that has too many stories going on and at the end too little going for it in the way of believability...
Argh!
Spin the Bottle (1998)
A deceptively well written film that may teach you something.
At first this movie did not impress me, it was doing what other movies do and going where other movies go. That changed when Rachel gave a speech to Ted about oatmeal. You see Ted ate oatmeal because his parents said it was good for him, he even ate it when his parents weren't there because what was expected of him became what he expected of himself. This piece of sharp, well written dialog that gave me a bit of a look into the meaning of this one person's life told me that this movie which could of just been about one person's revenge was actually a look into who these people where and why they did what they did. From that point on I started to appreciate this movie and what it could teach me. Even though I was a little disappointed by the ending, I do understand why it ended that way and am a little bit happier that everyone ended up just a little bit happier than they were coming into the film.