1) Eh. I was really excited about this movie. Some movie about a crazy guy and Jennifer Lawrence should be OTC. But after two hours I'm not sure anything actually ever got resolved.
2) It seemed like it went overboard with the whole crazy thing. Like I think it had a good setup of Bradley Cooper's character and Jennifer Lawrence was pretty solid. But it just kept going the whole movie. I mean, I get the whole mental illness is a lifetime thing but neither one of them ever really mellowed out. Even at the end of the movie she storms out because hes talking to his ex-wife even tho she knew that the ex-wife would be tuning in. The sequel to this movie would just be them having a bunch of fights over dumb things over and over again. I mean what kinda closure did anyone get? The dad's still gambling, he's still compulsive, and she's still pretty irrational.
3) And the music going on during the movie was driving me crazy (get it lol). It's like every time he was having an ep there was some music blaring that was drowning out whatever he was saying. I dunno if this was supposed to be symbolic of his episodes or if it was just accidentally annoying.
4) As a random aside I made the following two notes during the movie: (1) "Julia stiles >>>>" & (2) "Jennifer lawrence >>>>>" Pretty deep stuff right there. They also had dinner on Halloween which was pretty tight.
5) The final nail in the coffin was when the movie ended by him talking about how Sunday is his favorite day of the week. Sundays suck. SMH.
Despite all my complaining, it was still pretty good. Jennifer Lawrence + crazy + RomCom ending. Go figure.
B+
