JOP has enough movie reviews, movie articles, reviews in general, but something I've been missing lately is a good fifth grade-style FREEWRITE. I sat down tonight after a long day of moving, hoping to relax to some early-90's romantic comedy...here it goes: Singles!
- Wondering where Bill Pullman is.
- Why does the male romantic lead (Campbell Scott? more generic name please!) send out such a teacher-y vibe? Mr. Rutherford, Mr. Williams my 10th grade Chemistry teacher...channeled by this actor. Blech.
- Bill Pullman shows up as creepy plastic surgeon, hits on Bridget Fonda so overtly it's surreal and the movie doesn't make sense anymore.
- Matt Dillon = never hot.
- JOP already has a "Bill Pullman" tag--this one's for you, Clamz!
- the Expect the Best dating service sequences are maybe the best thing about this film...and heyyy, is that Peter Horton from Thirtysomething??!? it is!
- holy crap, these girls are arguing over Peter Horton..."does that give you the right to just bone him in my kitchen?!"
- welcome to 1992: the computers in this movie actually make boop-beep-boop-boop sounds when you hit keys! (and the screen is black with green type, obv)
- dozed off for a while, but I saw enough to say that things wrapped up satisfyingly but not too crazily; no Garden State-like horrors here. It's sort of a feel-good movie!
- so: Singles gets a solid B from me.
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singles is one of those movies i remember seeing posters of in my oldest sister's roommates rooms, and the like, but never saw until just a few years ago. and i saw the soundtrack everywhere too--my sister had it. i always wondered what it was about b/c when i was little i didn't put together what 'single' meant. i think i thought it was about a hit song, or a 'single'. yeah, its a good throwback to the time, definitely worth watching for that nostalgia. although the movie itself is questionable at times.
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