10 + 5 = 2 or..... Higher Mathematics of Love

The film I'm going to write about now you should go and see, if:

1. You are a gorgeous, successful and confident woman, or
2. you're a man with confidence issues (be honest, man), or
3. any other person who is not either a monk or nun, or in a 100 per cent happy and honest relationship.

I'm talking about "She's Out of My League". As the last movie date was such a disaster, my husband demanded a revenge and took me out to see this movie. Honestly, I didn't expect anything. And it's been a nice surprise.


So there's Kirk. Kirk has a life that sucks, since about 25+x years. His family is making the Bundys look like people from the intelligentsia. His bitch of an ex-girlfriend practically lives at his house, where he still lives with his parents (sorry, my mistake). He's working at the TSA, has a stupid boss, drives a crappy car and he looks very average. By judging of his friends, he's "a five, maybe a six".

And there's Molly. Drop-dead gorgeous, nice, smart, successful - and single (of course with a pilot model ex). That is until she meets Kirk and asks him out. And this is where the frenzy starts...

Nobody can understand what a bombshell like Molly wants with a Joe Average like Kirk. Not Kirk's family, not Molly's family, nor her stupid ex who thinks Kirk must be gay because Molly hangs out with him, not Kirk's friends (enjoy the married one with big love for Disney ;) ) and certainly not Kirk himself.

So, with the "help" of friends and family he does everything in his power to sabotage his own luck and you'll understand why so many relationships fail. (SPOILER - mark to read: It is missing self-confidence and following self-fulfilling prophecies ...) See it, then  you'll also find out what you'd get for $25 000, what you need married hetero-sexual friends for, and you'll see a horrible major deformation...

To be serious again: by contrast to the NON-love story "Dear John" this is a really charming romance. The main characters are believable and likable - they are nerds, and their humor is sometimes scratching at boundaries, but never crosses it. The guys are not the usual picture perfect  movie star guys, and they know it - but it never gets really mean.

And this is why you should go and see this movie, have a nice evening, take it in - and understand the true meaning of "It's not you, it's me."

Hello World...or How to Start Learning a New Language

So this is it, I guess. I've finally arrived in the blogosphere. Not that I haven't been here before, but I was just lurking around, reading, wondering, laughing. Now I'll try myself, and as with every new language I say: Hello World! And it seems quite easy - well, at least the writing itself. Can't say yet if it's gonna run bug free ;)

The plan was to write about interesting movies and books. But plans always last only as long as there is no contact with reality. So yesterday's movie was NOT interesting. Been to the movies to see "Dear John", cause I like Amandy Seyfried (cutie pie) and also, Channing Tatum is quite handsome to look at. There is nothing to say against a good cheesy romance now and then. BUT there is something to say against a cheesy romance with no real flavor at all. It was like eating a bun which is supposed to be filled with liquid chocolate but is not. You're biting and biting and nothing exciting happens, leaving you unsatisfied.

Beware - SPOILERS -
The story is about a girl (Savannah) and a boy (John) meeting on vacation, falling in love - but he is with the U.S. Army's special forces and have to go away with them for one year. The main characters are squeaky clean with no edges whatsoever, so they promise to wait for each other and write letters to each other. Shortly before his service ends, 9/11 happens and so John prolongs his time by two more years, in which she leaves him for a much older guy (family friend who's friends with John, too) with an autistic son and John, devastated, burns all her letters and gets himself shot in Afghanistan. When they meet again, years later, she's married to a cancer-stricken nice guy with child, and John with his good moral compass resists her devastated cry (seduction attempt) for love. Good guy that he is, John sells his late father's coin collection and donates the money anonymously to the treatment of Savannah's husband, but, alas, he dies anyway. And so they meet again...

Channing Tatum is eye candy for sure, as is Amanda Seyfried. They have undeniable chemistry, but the dialogues and non-existing suspension are just too bad for trading up this asset. Plus Amanda Seyfried is the perfect on-screen teenager or young adult - but she just isn't believable as an adult woman. Throw in some nice landscape shots, not too bad music, a lesson on coins and some awareness raising on autism for spice...and stir.

Well, it could have been an interesting story. But it wasn't. It was just like plastic candy. Candy, but not even tasty. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth, and the knowledge that serving in the military just sucks for your private life.