Philm Review: My Life In Ruins
No. Despite the title, this is not the story of Orlando Bloom.
Okay, so despite universal bad reviews, I watched this thing because My Big Phat Greek Wedding is one of my favorite philms of all time (sad but true), and therefore, I feel as though I have to support Nia Vardolos and her misguided philhellenism.
It bothers me, to this day, that in MBFGW, she said that her parents’ house was modeled after the the parthenon, “complete with ’corinthian’ columns”. Pardon me, but the Parthenon most certainly does not have phucking corinthian columns. How the hell does a Doric temple have corinthian columns?
Back to the film. I’m not gonna lie. It was really, really stupid! It was also sort of cute (complete with a few actually phunny moments), and I will probably watch it again before the year is out because I do stuff like that.
Watch it for the scenery.
I really wanted this movie to be phunny (I haven’t actually seen it though) because I too liked MBFGW. I liked that the dowdy girl got a cute guy and lived happily ever after, even though I know it doesn’t happen in real life.
And you know, if Nia Vardolos can write a movie script, it gives me some hope.
Ooh, is Joder going to write a movie?
My mom bought this yesterday and I watched this with my her and in a word: corny. I get what the movie was trying to accomplish but it just came across as cheesy. Hope she kept the paper thingy ( can’t think of the word
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“Corny” is a great word to describe this movie! Why didn’t I think of that? It was unbelievably corny.