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[no_pancakes]

I saw a poster for a film coming up and got angry. The film was Friends with benefits and the picture had the two stars making amusing faces and rather blunt hand gestures. I felt annoyed because there was nothing else left to that film. There was nothing that I felt wasn't already predictable, the story line would revolve around these two young

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[rougedragon]

All I know about Friends With Benefits (and I LOVE this, plus it ties into your non-predictable Russian story) is that Timberlake and Kunis were promoting the movie in Russia and some Russian journo was slagging them off, not realising that Kunis could understand every word. He got a surprise when he got a tirade back in Russian.

[no_pancakes]

She's Ukrainian I believe (I saw possibly the same article).

I think knowing nothing about rom-coms is often knowing all there is to know about them >_

[ranorith]

Nice story. :)

I kind of hoped that maybe you were wrong about FwB and so looked up the plot. Nope. Exactly in so many ways as one would predict, following all the stereotypes. There is even a father with Alzheimer's.

[no_pancakes]

I grant you there are things that aren't entirely obvious from the poster but dear god the insistance on having a plot leading to hetro-normative life is so fucking boring some days. I suppose if one is to analyse it you would say that the audience has to form an emotional bond to the characters and this is done via going through a standard experience of falling in love, with some twist added so that no one can patent the process and then accuse them of intellectual property theft.

[ranorith]

On the off (small) chance you (or someone else reading this comment) hasn't seen it already: Movie Title (aka Trailer For Every Oscar-Winning Movie Ever)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4