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I watched this movie out of curiosity. "Romantic Comedy" and "Kuwait" are not words you usually think of together. Also I wanted to see how much romance would make it into a Kuwaiti movie.
"Honeymoonish" is flawed but it has its moments. The best thing in the movie is the male lead, Mahmoud Boushahri, as Hamad. Bousharhri is bursting with charm and charisma and he is very handsome.
Hamad is the serious and ambitious son of a wealthy businessman. His father tells Hamad that he must marry in order to advance in the company.
Boushahri perfectly captures Hamad's seriousness and ambition.
Noor (Noor Al Ghandour) is a fitness teacher who loves Youssef. Youssef dumps Noor because he is forced to marry his cousin, as is customary in their culture. To get back at Youssef, Noor wants to marry immediately. Her needs and Hamad's needs meet, and they marry, though they met only once.
The movie gets bogged down in repetitive scenes of Noor yearning for Youssef and Noor having over the top temper tantrums. She yells and screams a lot and her instability and childishness is unattractive. The script writers clearly don't have a positive view of women. Not surprising given the cultural context.
But Boushahri's charisma and his chemistry with Noor work very well for the film. Also, the film is a fun watch because of all the fantasy settings -- Middle Eastern playgrounds of the idle rich. Swanky hotels and beaches.
Noor Al Ghandour, the female lead, is gorgeous and she really deserves a better script that shows a tad more respect for a female lead. And less lip filler, please.
I wish I could watch another film with these two leads.
"Honeymoonish" is flawed but it has its moments. The best thing in the movie is the male lead, Mahmoud Boushahri, as Hamad. Bousharhri is bursting with charm and charisma and he is very handsome.
Hamad is the serious and ambitious son of a wealthy businessman. His father tells Hamad that he must marry in order to advance in the company.
Boushahri perfectly captures Hamad's seriousness and ambition.
Noor (Noor Al Ghandour) is a fitness teacher who loves Youssef. Youssef dumps Noor because he is forced to marry his cousin, as is customary in their culture. To get back at Youssef, Noor wants to marry immediately. Her needs and Hamad's needs meet, and they marry, though they met only once.
The movie gets bogged down in repetitive scenes of Noor yearning for Youssef and Noor having over the top temper tantrums. She yells and screams a lot and her instability and childishness is unattractive. The script writers clearly don't have a positive view of women. Not surprising given the cultural context.
But Boushahri's charisma and his chemistry with Noor work very well for the film. Also, the film is a fun watch because of all the fantasy settings -- Middle Eastern playgrounds of the idle rich. Swanky hotels and beaches.
Noor Al Ghandour, the female lead, is gorgeous and she really deserves a better script that shows a tad more respect for a female lead. And less lip filler, please.
I wish I could watch another film with these two leads.
I sat through the original "Twister" 1996 twice.
Of course I saw right through it. I could see that it was pop entertainment and manipulative. That it was hardly original.
But I loved it. Aunt Meg and steak, the dog, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wakita, the whole crew ...
Bill Paxton was not hot but he was such a perfect everyman.
Sniffing the dirt!
I watched "Twister" 1996 again recently and I loved it all over again, and I noticed for the first time that everyone in it is white. I realized you could never do that today. You'd be condemned and boycotted.
"Twisters" 2024 was multicultural. There were black, Hispanic, and Subcontinental Indians. There were a couple of bad white guys. One is sprayed with mud.
A woman, Kate, (Daisy Edgar Jones) is the one who rescues everyone by lifting tornado debris off of trapped victims, and she invents a cure for tornadoes. Jones is terrible. Zero verisimilitude. Boring. Nothing. Jones is super young, pretty, blonde, and tiny, and utterly uninteresting. I kept thinking of how Helen Hunt grabbed me and made me believe her and care about her. Everything in her performance was compelling, her clothes, her side eye, her posture. All amazing.
As I was sitting there, not caring about anything, not being delighted, I asked myself, why is this not working for me? The special effects were nothing on the original. The sound wasn't as good.
GLEN POWELL DOES NOT TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT!!!
He's got old school star power and he deserves so much better than the films he's been in.
The movie bends over backward to have a diverse crew and they're just nothing compared to the old gang. There is one character, a black woman with dreadlocks, who is so outlandish and unconvincing. She looks like a homeless druggie in San Francisco.
Maura Tierney shows up as a woman who runs her own farm apparently all by herself and she's also totally not convincing. Tierney's from Boston and it shows. She's not "farm woman." There's zero chemistry between her and Jones that suggests that they are mother and daughter.
I sat through "Twister" 1996 twice. I hope never to sit through "Twisters" 2024 again.
Of course I saw right through it. I could see that it was pop entertainment and manipulative. That it was hardly original.
But I loved it. Aunt Meg and steak, the dog, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wakita, the whole crew ...
Bill Paxton was not hot but he was such a perfect everyman.
Sniffing the dirt!
I watched "Twister" 1996 again recently and I loved it all over again, and I noticed for the first time that everyone in it is white. I realized you could never do that today. You'd be condemned and boycotted.
"Twisters" 2024 was multicultural. There were black, Hispanic, and Subcontinental Indians. There were a couple of bad white guys. One is sprayed with mud.
A woman, Kate, (Daisy Edgar Jones) is the one who rescues everyone by lifting tornado debris off of trapped victims, and she invents a cure for tornadoes. Jones is terrible. Zero verisimilitude. Boring. Nothing. Jones is super young, pretty, blonde, and tiny, and utterly uninteresting. I kept thinking of how Helen Hunt grabbed me and made me believe her and care about her. Everything in her performance was compelling, her clothes, her side eye, her posture. All amazing.
As I was sitting there, not caring about anything, not being delighted, I asked myself, why is this not working for me? The special effects were nothing on the original. The sound wasn't as good.
GLEN POWELL DOES NOT TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT!!!
He's got old school star power and he deserves so much better than the films he's been in.
The movie bends over backward to have a diverse crew and they're just nothing compared to the old gang. There is one character, a black woman with dreadlocks, who is so outlandish and unconvincing. She looks like a homeless druggie in San Francisco.
Maura Tierney shows up as a woman who runs her own farm apparently all by herself and she's also totally not convincing. Tierney's from Boston and it shows. She's not "farm woman." There's zero chemistry between her and Jones that suggests that they are mother and daughter.
I sat through "Twister" 1996 twice. I hope never to sit through "Twisters" 2024 again.
Big disappointment.
"Fall Guy" has been advertised as a romantic comedy. Of course it includes action scenes but I thought that there would be an equal mix or maybe more on the romantic comedy side.
"Fall Guy" is a comedic action movie. It's a guy movie. Emily Blunt is a star and she is rarely onscreen and given very little to do. The movie mocks her as stupid and not understanding men and having silly, inappropriate, girl emotions. Ew. Girls have cooties, according to this movie.
For me this movie was a complete waste of time and I'm really pissed off at whomever decided to disseminate a false advertising campaign.
If you are an action movie fan or a fan of kindergarten level comedy this movie might be just your cup of tea. Not a problem for me. For me the problem is the false advertising.
"Fall Guy" has been advertised as a romantic comedy. Of course it includes action scenes but I thought that there would be an equal mix or maybe more on the romantic comedy side.
"Fall Guy" is a comedic action movie. It's a guy movie. Emily Blunt is a star and she is rarely onscreen and given very little to do. The movie mocks her as stupid and not understanding men and having silly, inappropriate, girl emotions. Ew. Girls have cooties, according to this movie.
For me this movie was a complete waste of time and I'm really pissed off at whomever decided to disseminate a false advertising campaign.
If you are an action movie fan or a fan of kindergarten level comedy this movie might be just your cup of tea. Not a problem for me. For me the problem is the false advertising.