last night i went to see just go with it for reasons other than that i thought it would be a brilliant tour de force

but i find i have thoughts...
and
i'm not sure they would have continued beyond walking back to my car
except that
i have a tendency
(unless i really have to pee)
to watch all the credits
(i figure those people deserve it
and often i want to see something with the music
which is usually listed last
and
sometimes they'll show you something
at the end
so i watch
usually)

and this time i saw that just go with it
is what i think they're calling now
a re imagining of
cactus flower

and i'm all like:
wait
what
no way

so i guess now i'll have to watch cactus flower again
goldie hawn totally stole the show in that film, as i recall
and i'm not sure it was planned that way
cactus flower is to almost famous
genetic book ends
somehow in my mind
and maybe that doesn't make sense
but it was just
the way my brain works

the point is
brooklyn decker
just pretty and nice
but nothing in the personality department
couldn't be (to me) the same movie
which, of course, isn't how that works
they'd be basing that on the plot or something not the movie
which surprisingly
even against
adam sandler
nick swardson
nicole kidman
and bailee madison (who gives everyone a pretty good run for their money)
brings out something amazing in
jennifer aniston

which is maybe sad
because this isn't a great movie
but she was incandescent

now
i've never been a big jenifer aniston fan
she's always been fine:
cute funny kinda one dimensional but good at her thing, ya know
i would never knock her
it's hard enough to get a thing to be good at in hollywood, ya know

but i am specifically trying to support this little trend they got going
the over 40 actress in romantic leading roles trend
i think it's a good good thing
and i'm willing to see
stuff i wouldn't go to see
to support that trend
the proposal for example
which actually turned out to be worth the price of admission
for betty white's performance
(sorry i could never like golden girls betty)

anyway
brooklyn decker
seemed like a set up really
as a pale by younger version of aniston
who may have had some work done before this film
i hate to say that
and i don't mean to sound like a bitch
it's just that i've looked at her a lot
specifically because
i've been thinking of getting my hair cut like that
for actually
like a couple of years now
and i just can't decide
her face is so much squarer than mine
and i'm afraid it will make me look like a campbell soup kid
so i've looked at her face pretty intensely
and
she doesn't look different
just sort of perfected

so what i'm saying:
if she had work done
it was fucking good gad damn amazing work
and everyone should run not walk to her surgeon

and
i don't mean to remain firmly focused on the physical
really i don't, but it is important here for the sake of the over 40 thing
to mention:

once jennifer aniston took off her clothes to reveal
her 40 something bikini clad body
every time brooklyn showed up after that
i couldn't help being all like:
oh yeah, is she still here

but she wasn't just
the most beautiful piece of meat there
which frankly
would have been a cultural victory in a way
she also came across as a real person
even though the situation, hell, the whole movie, was uber contrived

adam sandler is charming and has played romantic lead before and better
there is here nothing really new or inspired about his performance, except
after their kind of accidental date
where she needs him to pretend to be her husband
the way he has needed her
except
in her case
it is to make herself look good to an old sorority "friend"
the date was pretty good
aniston and kidman is a combination i would never have thought of
but wouldn't mind to see again
but
the walk down the hall
when sandler and aniston are returning from her lie to his
his realization
that he likes hers better

pure gold



i'm not saying
that i'm going to rent her back catalog
but
i wouldn't be surprised
to see something astonishingly good from her in the future
and i'm gonna try not to miss it