Movie Buzz : She’s Out Of My League

Yet another romantic comedy (seriously, nothing beats ’500 Days of Summer’ as of now), nothing special about ‘She’s Out of My League‘ – girl meets boy, they falls in love, reach the crisis but it’s always a happily ever after ending. Alice Eve is the gorgeous Molly which is drawn in to Jay Baruchel aka Kirk who is just your average Joe – or worse.

We all know how this rating system works when it comes to the opposite gender. It’s always a 1 to 10 and most of us fall under the average 5 or 6 – with a point or 2 as bonus. Few gets to meet a 10 and when they do, it’s like they’ve strike lottery and the whole self-esteem comes as an issue. Same goes for the main leads for this film, Kirk ends up thinking that this relationship is too good to be true and screwing his own relationship up. While Molly is having issues living as a ’10′ in her previous relationships and decided to date Kirk, for a safer alternative. Both realized their mistakes and true love overcomes their differences yadda yadda – you get the picture.

I find the dialogues pretty smart and genuine, I giggled quite alot throughout the film. There were indeed some laugh out points, like Kirk’s balls-shaving scene and ‘jizzed in his pants.’ The characters were quite likeable and some may even find them resembling someone they know in reality. The quirky buddies of Kirk, unfortunately, failed to impress even though provided some amusing moments in the film. I liked Molly’s snarky girl friend Patty, played by Krysten Ritter, she gave me alil of the Zooey Deschanel vibe but sadly – little scenes for her to shine. I have a soft spot for geeks like Kirk and Jay Baruchel played the role perfectly as usual. (He’s ‘Windows’ from Fanboy by the way)

This film convincingly gives every ‘Kirk’ in the world a semblance of hope. Moral of the story ? Don’t sell yourself short when you find true love. Afterall, like how people loves to put it “Love is Blind”. Certainly inspired me to write another post on the topic, wait for it !

I’ll give this 2.5/5 (+0.5 for its soundtrack which I quite enjoyed!) for a pretty brainless chill-out summer film, not worth your weekend tickets but not exactly falling under the ultimate-trashy film category either.

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Jan 16, 2010

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AOTW [23] : The Temper Trap

I’ve all along been a very ‘visual’ person. This video caught my eyes mainly because of a really simple reason – somewhere at 0:14 where the birds started flying in, it reminded me of the movie review I had to do back in polytechnic days. It gave me a nightmare to be honest. Not sure which movie I’m referring to ? Try watching Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” 5 times on one day !

That aside, I think this Aussie band is one of the upcoming ones. The song below is featured on the FIFA10 soundtrack for those of you who are gamers and might find it familiar.

By the way, check out their song “Sweet Disposition” which is the song that was featured on the teaser trailer and official soundtrack of “500 days of Summer”!

The Temper Trap “Science Of Fear”

Brakes on
Brakes on
The car is running empty
Brakes on brakes on
The car is runnin empty
Downhill
Head on
This crash is comin slowly
Downhill
Head on
This crash is comin slowly
Move
Or watch the slow death of your way of life
There’s a science to fear
It plagues my mind
And it keeps us right here
And it keeps us here

My ears
My eyes
My brain is slowly bustin
Black smoke
Red sky
The television’s sayin
Downhill
Head on another crash is comin
Move
Or watch the murder of you way of life

There’s a science to fear
It plagues my mind
And it keeps us right here
And the less we know
The more we sit still
My baby’s stuck on a road
That lead to nowhere
Nowhere, nowhere.

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