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I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« on: July 12, 2009, 10:51:08 AM »

Of course since I liked it so much it'll be a box office failure. I am so out of sync with the movie-going public. And when I look at the blockbusters out there I'm deeply grateful that I am.

The critics are being pretty harsh on I Love You, Beth Cooper. I guess it's hard to fully appreciate a film when one's senses are so dulled by having their heads up their asses. Not enough car crashes or grossout humor or eye candy CGI effects I suppose. I don't see what others see in movies, because I Love You, Beth Cooper was a complete joy to me. Nothing whatsoever not to like about it.

Of course it wasn't as good as the book and some things were glossed over. I was particularly disappointed that the book's epilogue wasn't in the movie. But all things considered it was a resounding success. Too bad it won't make any money.

Oh and it was nice to see Alan Ruck, Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as a cool Dad in it.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2009, 11:30:55 AM »

I checked Roger Ebert's site to see if he reviewed this one and if he liked it. He did and he didn't. Rog criticized it, but I question his opinion. In this paragraph, copied directly from his review:

I am also tiring of the way high school movies insist that all non-heroic characters travel in posses of three. All most popular girls arrive flanked by two girlfriends who follow them by half a step. And all macho villains have two underlings who follow their orders. In “I Love You, Beth Cooper,” the girlfriends are nice enough, because the heroine is. But the villain, Rich “Muncher” Munsch (Jack T. Carpenter), is a uniformed ROTC officer who, along with his sidekicks, is a muscular master of the martial arts, skilled gymnast and vicious bully. When he whistles, his minions snap to attention. And they attack with the coordination worthy of a dance troupe.

He said that Rich Munsch was the villain. NO. False. Rich Munsch aka: Dick Muncher, played by Jack T. Carpenter, was Dennis's best friend. The 'villain' was played by Shawn Roberts and he wasn't in the ROTC. He had graduated sometime in the past and was actually in the Army.

Roger, Roger, Roger, if you can't get the facts straight in your reviews, how can we have any respect for them? Did you sleep during part of the movie? Maybe it's retirement time.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2009, 02:29:22 PM »

Oh and Samm Levine (Neil, from Freaks and Geeks!) has a tiny role as a convenience store clerk in I love You, Beth Cooper.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2009, 04:44:12 PM »

I'm with the critics on this one, big guy. I walked out after forty minutes and not a suingle laugh. IMO Chris Columbus is one of the worst directors out there and every joke just fell flat.

But I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Bill


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2009, 05:09:31 PM »

Oh, God...Columbus directed this...? Ugh.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2009, 06:15:17 PM »

I saw that it was #7 in the top 10.. with 5 Million. Ouch.

Dammit Ebert only watched the preview and then looked up some names. Bast-ahd!

I am surprised that a bunch of kids didn't at least buy tickets for Beth Cooper to sneak in to Borat II.... of course, there was Transdeformers and Ice Age Tres available to buy tickets too for theater hopping.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2009, 06:17:44 PM »

"I am so out of sync with the movie-going public. And whenI look at the blockbusters out there I'm deeply grateful that I am."

Wurd !

Can we say TRANSFORMERS II ?

The movie-going public are lobotomized sheep, for the most part.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2009, 09:20:19 PM »

I was dying to see this, but the reviews have given me pause (for once). I'm a big Chris Columbus fan, and I actually like Shawn Roberts (the bully) who was great on Degrassi and was one of the few things I liked about Diary of the Dead. I may catch this eventually but I'm less eager after seeing the critics reception to it. But Mark liking it is a good sign.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2009, 03:19:06 AM »

I loved a couple of Columbus movies: Adventures in Babysitting and Heartbreak Hotel. And I hated some of them, especially his atrocious adaptation of Asimov's Bicentennial Man.

Sorry if you went on my say-so, Bill. I would say that you should have stuck with it, as the characters went from caricatures to individuals. But if you didn't like it you didn't like it. I think we are opposites in our movie tastes to some degree. Like you hate John Hughes and he's one of my very favorites. And you run to Meryl Streep movies and I run from Meryl Streep movies.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2009, 03:26:20 AM »

Of course Bruno was the big movie of the week and I have no intention of seeing it. I didn't see Borat either. The humor in these looks so damned obvious, the sledgehammer effect. I like at least a little subtlety in comedies.


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2009, 09:25:05 AM »

wasn't on your say so, Mark, but, you knopw, sometimes ya just don't like a movie. Happens every once in a while.

I will see BRUNO tomorrow. BORAT was absolutely hilarious, and I'm hoping for some belly laughs.
Bill


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2009, 05:30:21 AM »

But what I want to know: did Hayden Panettiere get nekkid as rumored?
Horny retrogressed post-teenaged minds need to know! Roll Eyes


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2009, 07:49:59 AM »

hahahahah! It is PG-13.... hmm, well, maybe... PG-13 used to mean boobies, remember "Say Yes" and "Johnny Be Good"(when it was in the theater)? hahhahaa

"PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language, some teen drinking and drug references, and brief violence"


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2009, 07:57:54 AM »

Shit, you could see nudity in PG movies back in the day! Roll Eyes

Andy


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Re: I Loved I Love You, Beth Cooper
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2009, 12:40:19 PM »

Yeah. And I used to see nudity in my bedroom, back before I got married.

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