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I asked for a mis­sion, and for my sins, they gave me one. My review of Life As We Know It is up now at MSN Movies. 

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  • Tom Russell says:
    October 7, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    Very much agree re: that break-up-so-they-can-make-up twenty-minute third act extender-slash-sad-montage-with-lots-of-dissolves-set-to-pussy-pop-music. They’ve always bored the hell out of me. I think per­haps it’s an attempt to go “deep­er” with the char­ac­ters and their “emo­tion­al jour­ney”, but as it almost always hap­pens in the bauble-iest of rom-coms, it does­n’t really work, just drags the whole thing down.

  • Jason M. says:
    October 7, 2010 at 6:55 pm

    So, you’re say­ing I’d be bet­ter off watch­ing ‘Social Network’ then?

  • Lex says:
    October 7, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    HEIGL = YUM. She makes the WORST movies but I could watch her in any­thing. Also Lucas and Duhamel are cool dudes, so I’m totally going to see this.
    Do they show her feet a lot in it?

  • Terry McCarty says:
    October 8, 2010 at 3:04 am

    http://poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com/2010/09/shedding-tears-for-denise-dinovis.html
    Hoping Ms. DiNovi (how­ever long she was involved with the pro­duc­tion) did­n’t have to suf­fer the slings and arrows of moth­er and daugh­ter Heigl telling her how to make a movie.

  • Glenn Kenny says:
    October 8, 2010 at 6:04 am

    Lex: Pretty much agreed on Heigl. She’s extremely…what’s the word?…watchable, I find. Got noth­ing against Duhamel and like Lucas, although the lat­ter car­ries a real “you may ask your­self, well, how did I get here?” vibe through­out. It’s like, “Didn’t I pay these dues in ‘Sweet Home Alabama?’ When did I turn into the below-the-Mason-Dixon-line lat­ter day Ralph Bellamy?”
    As for feet, not so much. This Berlanti fella ain’t Buñuel. In ANY respect.

  • Jason says:
    October 8, 2010 at 10:04 am

    I know this is not the point of the post, or the movie, but as a law­yer, I look at the left back­ground of that screen­cap and think, “What pro­duc­tion design­er thinks that people keep an entire set of US Supreme Court report­ers in their homes?”

  • Dan Coyle says:
    October 8, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Having read Berlanti’s script for Green Lantern- and by “read”, I mean, “thrown across the room after the 500th invoc­a­tion of Hal Jordan’s dead daddy issues” I just have to say, I hope they got some rewrites on that sucker.