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Movie Preview: Gerard Butler, Hilary Swank in P.S. I Love You

BuzzSugar — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:30:00 -0700

Back when this movie was a part of my tearjerker movies Fall Movie Preview post, there was no trailer available, but I was looking forward to seeing what the tone of this movie would be. Now, judging from the newly released trailer, it looks a little sappy, but also cute and endearing - if you're in that kind of mood. Plus, I recently learned that Swank injured herself during a scene in which Gerard Butler is stripping, and somehow that makes me like the movie more.

Opening December 21, the movie is based on a novel and stars Hilary Swank as Holly, a young widow who discovers that her husband wrote out messages for her just before he died. Some of the notes include unusual requests, and before long, Holly and her girlfriends (played by Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon, pictured) are going on a string of adventures that Holly's late husband planned for her.

I think the best parts of the trailer feature Lisa Kudrow's character's ill-fated attempts to pick up men (well, those moments and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's extremely adorable smile are my favorite parts), but you can see what you think of the trailer yourself if you read more

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What Love Is: The Year's Worst-Looking Film

BuzzSugar — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:00:41 -0700

Most likely, you haven't heard about What Love Is, and that's probably because the people involved are ashamed. Well, I'm here to inform you about it and to speculate as to how movies like this ever get made. It truly baffles me that, at the completion of this movie, after everything wrapped and the editing was done, someone sat back and said, "Yup, that's it: Perfection!"

The most hilarious part is that, at some point, the filmmakers had extremely overzealous hopes for this movie, which will open quietly this Friday. Allow me to present this nugget from the production notes:

"What Tom says to Sara in that final moment will not only go down as one of the all-time classic moments in filmmaking history, but it will not leave a single dry eye in the house."

Um. Not likely.

That's not even the half of it, so read more

In summary: Tom Riley (Cuba Gooding Jr.) goes home to propose to his girlfriend Sara on Valentine's Day night, only to find that she's left him but will be coming back to the house to pick up her remaining suitcases. Problem is, Tom invited his buddies (Matthew Lillard alert!) over to celebrate what he thought would be his new engagement. So, the buddies arrive and, in their dudely wisdom, offer advice on what to do about Sara. Here I must defer again to the outrageous production notes:

As more and more testosterone flows and more and more alcohol is consumed these five men work themselves up into such a frenzy that finally when there is a knock on the door nobody knows what to do! Everyone freezes except Tom, who is forced to gather up his courage once again and open the front door to confront Sara... only it's not Sara... it's five drop-dead gorgeous women standing in his doorway and asking him... "Is this where the Valentine's party is?" (Apparently Sal invited some women from back at the bar to join the party!)

The many ellipses are not my own, by the way.

I can't really stomach much more of this, so please, just watch the trailer and witness this cinematic treasure for yourself.

What to TiVo: Friday

BuzzSugar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:50:00 -0700

ABC is new with Ugly Betty and 20/20
CBS is new with The Ghost Whisperer, Medium, and NUMB3RS
FOX has Major League Baseball
NBC is new with Law & Order and Secrets of the Lost Symbol
The CW is new with Smallville and has a repeat of America's Next Top Model
Bravo is new with 13 Scarier Movie Moments
MTV has repeats of Pranked and Nitro Circus
TLC is new with Say Yes to the Dress
E! is new with The Soup
Showtime has a repeat of Dexter
USA is new with Monk
VH1 has repeats of My Antonio and Real Chance of Love 2: Back in the Saddle
Late-night highlights include Uma Thurman and Tim McGraw on The Late Show With David Letterman on CBS; Rachel Griffiths and John McCain on The Jay Leno Show on NBC; Dashboard Confessional on The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien on NBC; Michelle Monaghan and Toby Keith on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on CBS; Serena Williams on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC; and Gina Gershon on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on NBC