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Post by Nora on Dec 28, 2018 0:50:13 GMT
i dont suspect any of you want to see this but just un case: dont. Second act is unbearable. Stupid and not in the entertaining way. so cringey.
I love JLo and enjoy rom coms but this was a mess. srcipts fault, the cast did what they good. but this story is so convoluted and stupid at the same time.
avoid like plague.
2/10. the two points are for JLo looking good in pencil skirts and dances well.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 28, 2018 0:57:54 GMT
Her recent output of movies suggest to me that she's perpetually stuck in the year 2002.
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Post by Nora on Dec 28, 2018 3:49:15 GMT
Her recent output of movies suggest to me that she's perpetually stuck in the year 2002. i guess you are right. u really really like her so i guess i didnt stop to think “wait what was the last good movie she did”. and upon inspection — ITS HAS BEEN A WHILE. but this one is new level of lame. walked out 15 mibutes before the end. could not take anymore. |
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Post by hi224 on Dec 28, 2018 4:13:06 GMT
i mean the trailer alone seemed very uninspired and tepid so yeah.
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Post by hi224 on Dec 28, 2018 4:13:23 GMT
Her recent output of movies suggest to me that she's perpetually stuck in the year 2002. i guess you are right. u really really like her so i guess i didnt stop to think “wait what was the last good movie she did”. and upon inspection — ITS HAS BEEN A WHILE. but this one is new level of lame. walked out 15 mibutes before the end. could not take anymore. im doing a triple feature as well. |
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Post by ck100 on Dec 28, 2018 4:16:26 GMT
She hasn't made a good movie since the late 1990's.
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Post by Nora on Dec 28, 2018 4:27:58 GMT
She hasn't made a good movie since the late 1990's. technically you are correct. but i did enjoy her Maid In Manhattan since then. thats the kind of silly rom com i can take and enjoy. so i went into this hoping for something similar. but this was incredibly stupid. total cringefest. |
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 28, 2018 7:05:21 GMT
i mean the trailer alone seemed very uninspired and tepid so yeah. I viewed Second Act based on the trailer, but I too found the film lousy. For awhile, I actually thought that it was decent—the picture poses a legitimate ethical/existential dilemma that offers comedic potential, and it was pursuing that angle respectably enough. But in the middle of the movie, the filmmakers embrace this ridiculous plot twist that is both implausible and maudlin, causing Second Act to degenerate and lose focus. I actually thought that most of the movie proved watchable, but the better aspects are disposable and not substantial enough to redeem the preposterous plot twist and the excessive sentimentality. For the record, the only other Jennifer Lopez movie that I have seen in full is Out of Sight, which I viewed on VHS in the summer of 1999. I saw part of something else ( Enough, I am guessing) on television in 2009. |
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Post by hi224 on Dec 28, 2018 8:56:19 GMT
i mean the trailer alone seemed very uninspired and tepid so yeah. I viewed Second Act based on the trailer, but I too found the film lousy. For awhile, I actually thought that it was decent—the picture poses a legitimate ethical/existential dilemma that offers comedic potential, and it was pursuing that angle respectably enough. But in the middle of the movie, the filmmakers embrace this ridiculous plot twist that is both implausible and maudlin, causing Second Act to degenerate and lose focus. I actually thought that most of the movie proved watchable, but the better aspects are disposable and not substantial enough to redeem the preposterous plot twist and the excessive sentimentality. For the record, the only other Jennifer Lopez movie that I have seen in full is Out of Sight, which I viewed on VHS in the summer of 1999. I saw part of something else ( Enough, I am guessing) on television in 2009. i like that you give in depth analysis :0 its a refreshing perspective. |
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Post by Nora on Dec 28, 2018 16:56:13 GMT
i mean the trailer alone seemed very uninspired and tepid so yeah. I viewed Second Act based on the trailer, but I too found the film lousy. For awhile, I actually thought that it was decent—the picture poses a legitimate ethical/existential dilemma that offers comedic potential, and it was pursuing that angle respectably enough. But in the middle of the movie, the filmmakers embrace this ridiculous plot twist that is both implausible and maudlin, causing Second Act to degenerate and lose focus. I actually thought that most of the movie proved watchable, but the better aspects are disposable and not substantial enough to redeem the preposterous plot twist and the excessive sentimentality. For the record, the only other Jennifer Lopez movie that I have seen in full is Out of Sight, which I viewed on VHS in the summer of 1999. I saw part of something else ( Enough, I am guessing) on television in 2009. yep. i couldnt believe they went there. and you know why they did? because the creators were too afraid to have a childless woman as the main protagonist, in her age. thats probably whats most upsetting to me. that they didnt find the courage to present a woman thats in a happy relationship and works on her career without wanting children. cowards. and they chose the STUPIDEST and the movie MOST harming plot device. from the moment that was revealed I was so annoyed as it completely changed all the dynamics in the film and was losing its comedic potential by minute.
because i walked out, i dont know the end. did she end up with her daughters father or went back to her young bf? |
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Dec 28, 2018 19:18:05 GMT
i dont suspect any of you want to see this but just un case: dont. Second act is unbearable. Stupid and not in the entertaining way. so cringey. I love JLo and enjoy rom coms but this was a mess. srcipts fault, the cast did what they good. but this story is so convoluted and stupid at the same time. avoid like plague. 2/10. the two points are for JLo looking good in pencil skirts and dances well. But why did you go in the first place? You like JLo that much? |
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Post by Nora on Dec 28, 2018 19:44:59 GMT
i dont suspect any of you want to see this but just un case: dont. Second act is unbearable. Stupid and not in the entertaining way. so cringey. I love JLo and enjoy rom coms but this was a mess. srcipts fault, the cast did what they good. but this story is so convoluted and stupid at the same time. avoid like plague. 2/10. the two points are for JLo looking good in pencil skirts and dances well. But why did you go in the first place? You like JLo that much? i go and see everything each week. all releases. all weeks. most of them i sit through. i think i walk out on something only about once a month (meaning once in about 16-20 releases). this was That Bad. |
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Dec 28, 2018 20:03:11 GMT
But why did you go in the first place? You like JLo that much? i go and see everything each week. all releases. all weeks. I get that. I ALMOST do the same. But still... wasn't there anything else out? |
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Post by Nora on Dec 28, 2018 20:09:56 GMT
i go and see everything each week. all releases. all weeks. I get that. I ALMOST do the same. But still... wasn't there anything else out? i saw everything else out except Marwen which seemed kinda depressing and Bumblebee which I promised to see with a friend. So JLo it was. but whats the difference, if I see it one day or the next. I knew I would go see it anyways, sooner or later. plus I do like her and from the trailer it seemed like a harmless mediocre rom com. little did i know it had a demented script and a really moronic twist…. |
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Post by hi224 on Dec 29, 2018 5:00:31 GMT
I get that. I ALMOST do the same. But still... wasn't there anything else out? i saw everything else out except Marwen which seemed kinda depressing and Bumblebee which I promised to see with a friend. So JLo it was. but whats the difference, if I see it one day or the next. I knew I would go see it anyways, sooner or later. plus I do like her and from the trailer it seemed like a harmless mediocre rom com. little did i know it had a demented script and a really moronic twist…. I am glad im not the only cinema junkie why aren't we besties?. |
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 29, 2018 7:40:45 GMT
I viewed Second Act based on the trailer, but I too found the film lousy. For awhile, I actually thought that it was decent—the picture poses a legitimate ethical/existential dilemma that offers comedic potential, and it was pursuing that angle respectably enough. But in the middle of the movie, the filmmakers embrace this ridiculous plot twist that is both implausible and maudlin, causing Second Act to degenerate and lose focus. I actually thought that most of the movie proved watchable, but the better aspects are disposable and not substantial enough to redeem the preposterous plot twist and the excessive sentimentality. For the record, the only other Jennifer Lopez movie that I have seen in full is Out of Sight, which I viewed on VHS in the summer of 1999. I saw part of something else ( Enough, I am guessing) on television in 2009. yep. i couldnt believe they went there. and you know why they did? because the creators were too afraid to have a childless woman as the main protagonist, in her age. thats probably whats most upsetting to me. that they didnt find the courage to present a woman thats in a happy relationship and works on her career without wanting children. cowards. and they chose the STUPIDEST and the movie MOST harming plot device. from the moment that was revealed I was so annoyed as it completely changed all the dynamics in the film and was losing its comedic potential by minute.
because i walked out, i dont know the end. did she end up with her daughters father or went back to her young bf? Nora, she embraces her daughter and the movie again becomes excessively sentimental. The daughter's father never appears, but there is a reconciliation between the Lopez character and her former boyfriend. I do not believe that the film ends with the two of them together, but there had been a scene in a restaurant where they reconciled, with the implication of a shared future. The boyfriend now understands why she had been so hesitant to embrace the idea of having children ... Your notion about why the filmmakers included that plot twist is certainly worth noting; personally, I thought that they wanted to make the film into even more of a "feel-good" holiday-season movie, hence the subplot. Of course, they could have essentially avoided the whole issue by making the character Lopez's age (pushing fifty) instead of making her forty. To be certain, she can pass for forty, but Second Act would have worked much better by simply avoiding that whole question of childbearing. As you said, the subplot totally changed the film for the worse—totally. |
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 29, 2018 7:46:48 GMT
i go and see everything each week. all releases. all weeks. I get that. I ALMOST do the same. But still... wasn't there anything else out? ... just to comment, as I indicated earlier, I had never before seen a Jennifer Lopez movie in the theater, and I had only seen one of her films ( Out of Sight) in full (on VHS in 1999). But having viewed the trailer for Second Act, I thought that the picture possessed modest potential, and for awhile it was realizing that potential, if only in a TV-movie sort of way. But the subplot took what could have been a decent or mediocre comedy and rendered it lousily ridiculous. |
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Post by Nora on Dec 29, 2018 18:59:55 GMT
i saw everything else out except Marwen which seemed kinda depressing and Bumblebee which I promised to see with a friend. So JLo it was. but whats the difference, if I see it one day or the next. I knew I would go see it anyways, sooner or later. plus I do like her and from the trailer it seemed like a harmless mediocre rom com. little did i know it had a demented script and a really moronic twist…. I am glad im not the only cinema junkie why aren't we besties?. do u live in nyc? |
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Post by Vits on Apr 17, 2019 18:15:39 GMT
4/10
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