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Love Happens by Brandon Camp |
| This article, Love Happens by Brandon Camp, was written by SubHun on September 26, 2009 08:20:24 AM |
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| Category: Entertainment: Movies |
| “Love Happens” – a literary work accomplished by Brandon Camp focuses on the roles of Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston, initiate as the tasteless roles and reach to its end as the explicit bad romantic play of the year. Exclusively for its two deeds, the film is misleadingly honest in what appears to be a shot to give a quite story of love and liberation. Although it is truly Eckhart’s fable in case, for no other reason than the reality that Aniston, who has performed a finer work few years back, is considered as a sideshow, the monotone window dressing to Eckhart’s exceedingly sensational lost spirit. He plays Burke, a famous self-help expert and megalomaniac in-the-making who is so out of touch with his own self-empowerment strategies that he downs a few glasses of vodka before each speaking engagement. Aniston is Eloise, a humble florist (yeah, right) who writes large words on hotel walls in neon pink marker. Why? Because it’s so pointless, it must be meaningful. But it’s not; it’s actually just vandalism. Eloise and her big words are clearly Burke’s savior, if only he can work out his labyrinthine mess of a screwed up life. You might be asking yourself, “Haven’t we seen this all before?” Why, yes, we have. Love Happens is one of those movies that’s made up of the recycled parts of other equally cloying “Wounded Man Lives Contradictory Life” movies, those emotional melodramas where the hero is successful at helping others but is unable to help himself. Burke is a classic Wounded Man: He exudes confidence and wisdom on the outside, but harbors secrets — deep, dark secrets — on the inside. We know his wife died in a tragic car accident, but what were the real circumstances behind that crash? Martin Sheen fills about five total minutes of screen time as Burke’s blustering ex-Marine father-in-law, turning up in the beginning for one scene of aloof disapproval, then popping up again at the end, just in time for their inevitable reconciliation. Neither scene reveals anything of substance about the characters. “Hey, there’s Martin Sheen!” we say at the beginning. Later, we say, “Hey, there he is again! This time he’s crying!” The film glosses over each character in such a shapeless manner that we can’t begin to care about any of them. Judy Greer, Patron Saint of rom-com best buds, gets such short shrift that we barely remember she’s in the movie; Dan Fogler dials down his usual manic nature as Burke’s publicist, who is simultaneously evil businessman and genuine friend; and the great John Carroll Lynch, as a grieving dad who is skeptical about Burke’s self-help axioms, imbues his character with much deeper emotion than the screenplay deserves. Director/co-writer Brandon Camp, in his first feature, shoves the intended power of these characters down the audience’s throat at every opportunity. But everything about them feels forced and not at all truthful. When Aniston tells Eckhart late in the film that her life is “an everyday experiment in very bad decisions,” we don’t care, because we don’t know anything about this person other than her surface quirks. What’s extraordinary about Love Happens is how quickly and sharply the film shifts from benign to malignant, from merely mediocre to truly offensive. In search of some overwrought emotional truth, |
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