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best movie i've ever seen.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

If you are an aspiring filmmaker and need an idea for a ninety minute film I think I may have your solution; write a script for a romantic comedy. Think about it, the first thing you do isn't the thing your going to wind up sticking with. Kevin Bacon started with horror films and now he's a household name. Even Peter Jackson. What you want to do is get a pretty straightforward storyline for a romantic comedy made and expand it into roughly an eighty to one hundred minute film.Comedy is a risky environment, if there aren't big names, people won't pay. Even if it's bashed, you'll make money, but you need respectable comedy names. Horror is a bad market to get in now because everything is CGI and remakes. It's another genre I'd shy away from. Write a script for a romantic comedy, get some middle of the road stars to be in it, and boom. It doesn't cost too much to make a romantic comedy either. That is my advice for you.I bring this up because Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! sounds like a film that could've been made by almost anyone. There is always a market for romantic comedies because there is always a girlfriend in need of a chick flick and time with her boyfriend. It's a win win. Even the most cliché romance movies get a fair rating from critics and audience members. It doesn't have to be Notebook worthy. If it makes them laugh, tear, and care, chances are, they'll eat it up.Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! is about a regular girl named Rosalee (Bosworth) who gets the once in a lifetime chance to go on a date with her favorite movie star hunk Tad Hamilton (Duhamel). What she doesn't know, aside from his stunning, romantic comedy appearances, Tad is just a burnout Hollywood wreck. Tad winds up falling in love with Rosalee, and wants the two to live together. Rosalee's best guy friend Pete (Grace) is extremely jealous and in shock Rosalee would fall in love this guy. This causes a whole new subplot for the film.The movie is stuck in the awkward hybrid section of "regular ol' rom com" and "on the edge of daring rom com." Even though I am usually an easy sell with romantic comedies, I didn't care too much for the characters in the film. Even Topher Grace who I am known to love. Rosalee's simply minded, quick decision making character isn't how I would like a protagonist to be and Tad's character just is an unlikable schmuck.I did however enjoy some scenes in the film, most of all the farm scene where Pete and Tad are trying to chop logs. Pete tries to show off to the girls with his bird-chest, but once that shirt comes off of Tad, Pete might as well get lost. The scene was very accurate on how girls act around a muscular guy and a wimpy guy. It hit the target.Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! has some nice little perks to it like Topher Grace, an interesting soundtrack, and some small other plot perks, but overall it's one of those films that really used up a ton of it's budget on actors when it could've done so much more and went a lot deeper. I didn't hate it, I didn't care too much for it.Starring: Kate Bosworth, Josh Duhamel, Topher Grace, Nathan Lane, Sean Hayes, and Gary Cole. Directed by: Robert Luketic.

From director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law), I had certainly heard the title, and I knew it might be a soppy romantic comedy chick flick, but I have been known to sit through many of those. Basically in rural West Virginia, young grocery clerk Rosalee Futch (Superman Returns' Kate Bosworth) dreams of one day meeting her movie star idol Tad Hamilton (Josh Duhamel), and she sees a way to make this a reality. She spots a competition where the prize is to go on a date with Hamilton himself, so after raising the $100 entry fee, she is shocked and delighted to be the winner, while her best friend and co-worker Pete Monash (Topher Grace) is irritated. So Rosalee finally comes face to face with Tad Hamilton, who is doing this, with the insistence of his agent Richard Levy the Driven (Nathan Lane), to clean up his fading image and boost his profile, and she is naturally nervous. So the date goes well and she has a nice time, as does Tad, who is somehow smitten with this girl he only got to know for a few hours, and he wants more, so against the wishes of Richard, he moves to West Virginia. Rosalee is of course confused to see this movie star asking her out for another date, and getting close to become a more frequent boyfriend, but she enjoys every minute of it, while Pete, who is secretly in love with her, is extremely jealous. Pete does find it in himself to come out and show his true feelings for Rosalee, but she is confused, doesn't seem to really take it in and is naturally more towards Tad. In the end, Rosalee realises she does indeed have true feelings for Pete, Tad tells her he has been lying and lets her go, and the true loving couple have their happy ending kiss. Also starring Gary Cole as Henry Futch, Ginnifer Goodwin as Cathy Feely, Kathryn Hahn as Angelica, Octavia Spencer as Janine, Sean Hayes as Richard Levy the Shameless, Amy Smart as Nurse Betty and Stephen Tobolowsky as George Ruddy. Bosworth is nice as the beautiful star-eyed fan, Duhamel is alright as the simpleton movie star, and Grace is good as the love sick jealous friend, the film didn't make me laugh a lot, but the story would appeal to anyone who has always wanted to meet their idol, your probably going to get more than you bargained for, and there's that saying that it's different when in the flesh, anyway, a not bad romantic comedy. Worth watching!

The premise of this movie had potential to be a decent fun and girlie comedy. However, the poor lead casting, and subsequent poor acting left the movie lacking. The film is shot in a bright and quirky way - consistent with what the script called for. It's from the same director as Legally Blonde - so imagine that kind of atmosphere. However, performances from Kate Bosworth, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Topher Grace severely hindered the likability and relate-ability of the characters. First, Kate Bosworth, a self proclaimed blue blood, is not convincing at all as a sweet small town girl. Like Goodwin and Grace, Bosworth lacks the charm that no amount of "beauty" can make up for in a character meant to be a moral center. Not to mention the awkward way the cutesy phrases came out - "shake a doo" or "wack a doo", whatever. It was so unnatural from her. And the "awed" expression when meeting Tad - awful. She looked constipated, not surprised. Ginnifer Goodwin overacted her part as zany BFF. She was over the top, which took away from the purpose of the best friend. Her antics did not support the lead, they detracted from them. Finally, Topher Grace - Yes, he fit the "nerd" description, and the fast witted kind of speech pattern, but again, no charm. Instead, Grace came off as a jerk, simply sabotaging his best friend's relationship. Even the turning point where he "just wants her to be happy", even if it is with Tad, isn't believable - it's selfish because of the pride behind it - not to mention the self pitying tone.Pros? There are some - like the flawlessness of Gary Cole, Kathryn Hahn, Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes. And Josh Duhamel is pretty convincing as a self centered, slightly stupid, but still surprising kind of mainstream and lacking substance actor. But more importantly - he makes his character LIKABLE. And he's not the one you should want "Rosalee" to end up with, but he is.This movie would have been infinitely better with someone like Kristen Bell or Elisha Cuthbert as Rosalee, Mila Kunis or Christina Ricci as BFF Cathy, and someone like - Jake Gyllenhaal or Jonathan Jackson as Pete. All in all, I want the $5 it cost me to give this movie a chance, but I can live the hour and a half it took from my life, though I'm not thrilled.

I came to this movie without much hope bit being a fan of romantic comedies in general. However I was pleasantly surprised by this movie without thoroughly enjoying it. Given the choice I would not watch this film again (as regular readers know is my barometer for judging a film) but I would watch it with my wife.The film runs to the tried and tested formula of teen romantic comedies and the ending is obvious from the outset. But there is still plenty to enjoy here.The cast all perform well without anybody standing out, though the chemistry between the three major characters could have been better.Fans of the genre could do a lot worse than check out this film.