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“That was one of my favorite animated movies when I was young. Besides, has anyone even done a live-action version of the Jetsons? It’d perform better than Land of the Lost, Bewitched or Lost in Space. God, I’d love to see it.”
Give it time. Robert Rodriguez is working on it.
Men really are sick miserable creatures. Any time a female driven movie is a big deal, you all come out in droves spewing hate and hissing fangs.
Some of these hate comments for Bullock are likely plants from those involved with Hangover, or that Stone Age movie, but even then the shenanigans are from men.
Relax, dudes. Your balls are still there. Cause everything on the planet relates back to your dicks, and they’re precious and fragile and easily frightened, riiight?
Sandra Bullock rocks. Women are a powerful force that, yes, stopped going to movies long ago because there’s nothing to see except farty guys doing stupid farty things with other farty guys.
The only female driven movies are always about a wedding. What a joke.
Again, men are joyless stupid miserable creatures who take all the fun and spirit out of life between all your crimes, and violence, and catastrophic business dealings, and just plain ….hate for sport.
I saw The Proposal last year(free screening) and I loved the movie. Betty White was terrific and the best part of the movie. Ryan Reynolds was quite funny and I thought Sandra looked great in this(and she played her part well). I am happy it is doing well.
Saw “The Proposal” — terrific chemistry between leads, some clever banter, funny supporting performances. Just a solid, well-made rom-com.
As for Ms. Bullock (and the haters
, she’s a terrific physical comedienne, super likable and willing to take risks (see “Infamous”). Time will bear out her place among the best romantic comedy leads… Everyone seems to forget that “Bringing Up Baby” was a bomb in 1938 rendering Katharine Hepburn “box office poison.” Now “Bringing Up Baby” is in the iMDb top 250 (though barely, I acknowledge).
Romantic comedies are rarely respected in the eras they’re made.
wait… The PROPOSAL kicked YEAR ONE’S ass?
But I thought women couldn’t open movies? Oh yeah… MAMMA MIA!, SATC, BRIDE WARS, 27 DRESSES, HE’S JUST NOT THST INTO YOU, ENCHANTED, OBSESSED, BABY MAMA, HOUSE BUNNY, JUNO, HANNAH MONTANA, WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS…
When do female movies NOT make money? And all those movies cost less than LAND OF THE LOST.
Have a great weekend!
Comments so far have included “generic” which I take to mean, “We’ve seen this before and there will be nothing new.” And you know those who made this comment are correct. We’ve seen this type of film many times, but what’s the difference if it was a chick flick or guy who blows up everything in sight film? I haven’t seen too many original movies in a long time anyway. So frankly, who gives a damn if it’s generic?
What’s important is does it answer the questions I might have when deciding to recommend a film to friends. Did it make me laugh? Was it romantic? Hey, it’s supposed to be a romantic comedy so I guess that’s what I’m looking for in a film like that. So I can say that it does both. I l enjoyed it. It was funny,I laughed a lot and in one part I actually shed a little tear.
Betty White was marvelous as always. I like Sandra Bullock’s work. She’s funny and she’s sweet. Why is that a bad thing? She’s in a film, I’ll go see it. Didn’t know much about Ryan Reynolds (sorry a bit out of touch with the “in” crowd I guess) but heck, he has a hot body, can be very funny and looks like he’s a really, really good kisser! May have to check out more of his work in the future!
Oh and all you nasty Hollywood types who want to jump on me for saying he has a nice body and looks like a good kisser… Well, yea, I’ll bet you go see Transformers for the machines and cause Shia LeBeouf is such a great ACTOR! Right! And I’ve got some land in Arizona I could sell ya. We all know you go to a flick like that just to see if some of Megan Fox’s skin will be exposed – so just zip the nasty comments.
I liked it – I’ll be telling all my friends, the gals AND the guys (especially my married male friends – suggesting they take their wives) to go see it – cause they might just get lucky afterwards and we all know that’s ALL you guys really care about anyway.
How can anyone use the term SPOILER ALERT when talking about “The Proposal”? Or “Year One” for that matter?
Is there anyone out there who can’t figure out everything about those movies just from the poster?
A movie doesn’t have to open at number 1 to be popular and a money making one. Its the longevity and how much it made at the end of its run is what matters most
Sandra’s past 30 releases has grossed over 1.2Billion at the B.O with average of 43M per movie and not forgetting, she co-produces most of her own movies.
So lets give credits where its due shall we?
Anyone know why Malin Akerman isn’t in the trailer at all? She has third billing, so what gives?
@ “Sorry but I don’t get Sandra”.–Well, you’re in the minority on that one, that’s ok though.
To others: No one can deliver NON STOP box office blockbusters in this day and age, or ever? But it says A LOT that after all this time people still want to see a movie Sandra is starring in.
I do not like chick flicks but kind of dug the proposal. I will admit I have a crush on Sandra. It was good for what it was.
Year One looks terrible, but who knows.
Ha, ha, ha, I love the ‘excuses’ as to why any movie does well.
Chicks will see anything, it’s a kiddie flick, it had a built-in audience, the geeks came out in droves, testosterone driven, great tie-in, etc…number one, is number one in Hollywood.
“The Proposal”‘s opening had just as much to do with Ryan Renolds as it did with Sandra Bullock – maybe even more so. Though he is already quietly becoming a major draw, the Gambit movie will cement his A-list leading-man status.
Edit: “Deadpool”, not “Gambit”.
I honestly don’t get why so many of you WISH AND PRAY that a movie bombs — are you all that pessimistic and hateful? It makes no sense to me, if you don’t like to see a movie, than just don’t see it? But to wish any movie to fail is just mean — there are a lot of people that go into making movies who spend countless days and effort to bring out a good product.
For the record, The proposal was a great, feel good comedy of the year and everyone in our sold out showing LOVED it. don’t miss it!
Even though the film seems totally lame, I’m not surprise by the big draw… Sandra Bullock is lovable as always, along with Ryan Reynolds’ hard rock abs, with a dash of magic from Betty White (who is doing a great promo tour on TV BTW, her staying power in the business in unmistakable,) looks like a winner.
I had a free ticket due to AMC Theater’s Moviewatcher program, and I couldn’t choose between such wonderful fare (sarcasm there). I ended up going to see Hangover because I heard that it was very funny. It was repugnant and the end credits were right out of a porn movie. Add to that the social morons on either side of me who wouldn’t shut up (how do you say STFU in Farsi?) and it was one of the worst filmgoing experiences of my life. Where was the MPAA when they rated the film? What kind of kickbacks did they receive to give it an R rating? And where the heck was the AMC staff when there were at least two to three dozen minors watching the film?
Saw The Proposal last night and I give it a B. It felt like there were two scenes missing. The scene where we see Andrew’s feelings start to change about Margaret, and a needed scene where Margaret gave a piece of her mind to Andrew’s dad.
Otherwise, fluffy. I wish Reynolds was given more to do.
Reynolds was amazing…stole the show!! He is simply amazing. Love Betty White too.
So glad to see a rom/com open at number one….I just wrote a new one and glad to see when they are done well, they can be profitable.
Cynical Americans posting about this morning is sickening. So what, it’s a fairy tail, there is nothing wrong with watching a story that has been told before with actors who are charming and just enjoy their presentation of it.
Revivals are common in the theatre and the story and words don’t change much at all.
Sandra Bullock has never looked better and I would never classify her as “middle aged”. Ryan Reynolds is way prettier though and he has been around forEVER, yet he never has broken into the “power circle of leading men”, I am thinking it might now happen until he is “middle aged”.
Agree w Paloma Pigeon –
I was a bit surprised that in A2, instead of developing the love-story betw Sandra B’s char and RR, they dev a “love-story” betw Sandra B and RR’s FAMILY(and ex gf). Are we that cynical, that we can’t have 2 or 3 more scenes in A2 of two people falling in love? And also the flip of an older women and younger man falling in love (boss and asst) could have been interesting to explore more — I wonder if a woman wrote this (or at least did some rewrites), would it have been, dare I say, a bit deeper movie?
But still, I’m thrilled at the success and enjoyed most of it! (I am a writer and have to complain about something).
Go see it!!
re: “Anyone know why Malin Akerman isn’t in the trailer at all? She has third billing, so what gives?”
her role was much larger originally, but most of it landed on the cutting room floor. but she was contractually locked in for third billing.
Sandra Bullock looks younger and fresher than Reynolds who is already losing his hair, and who is not so young [in his 30s.]
He has a hot hot body though. They should’ve shown more – the promise of his brief nudity was one of the draws for seeing this movie [the main one was Bullock and not having to watch a bunch of boring ugly guys get sooo wasted in Vegas for the umpteenth time. Hilarious that all the pencil pricks whine about this movie having been done so many times. How many times have we been tortured with the same dude/drunk/stripper crapfest. ]
Nikki,
You get sick more than any other person on the planet! You really need to take better care of yourself.
I’m kinda surpriesed The propoasl opened as big as it did. I thought that Sandra was getting a little long in the tooth to not only pull off yet another formulatic high concept romantic comedy, but also when you consider the fact that her romantic male lead was in was in high school when Speed came out. Go figure.
I expect All About Steve (with another romantic lead 10 years her junior) to open big this September. Can lightning strike twice in the same year for Sandra?