Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Good romantic movies are hard to find, and when you do find one–by all means, watch it over and over again! I thought that Mr. and Mrs. Smith would be your typical romantic comedy from the bowels of Hollywood melodrama, fueled only by hot sex between two gorgeous celebrities. But I was happily mistaken.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is romantic comedy meets action flick, minus the sap and gore, making it quite different from your typical Hollywood trash. Perhaps it’s because I’m a sucker for subtle, battlefield romances (think Leia and Han Solo from the Star Wars Trilogy), but ten minutes into the movie I was having a great time. The car chases were exciting, and the fight scenes were well choreographed–it almost looked like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were slow-dancing instead of shooting people. I particularly enjoyed the verbal sparring between the two in the midst of the action. Their bickering made Jolie and Pitt very human and believable as Jane and John Smith.
What I liked about the movie best was that there was nothing in it about how love sucks, marriage sucks, blahblahblah bullshit. I mean, I hate how so many movies try to define love and end up contradicting themselves with what they think love is. But this is not the appropriate place for that sort of rant.
I give Mr. and Mrs. Smith a 4/5. I wouldn’t recommend it to cynical folks, though.
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June 13th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
I definitly agree with your review of this movie, you summed it up perfect.
Awesome site btw
June 14th, 2005 at 02:47 pm
hi!
now I wanna watch the movie.
just a lurker who’s finally speaking up.
great site!
June 15th, 2005 at 08:00 am
I loved this movie. I saw it the first day it came out.
June 15th, 2005 at 10:32 pm
Just saw this movie the other day… I loved the dialog between them throughout the movie. Nice site… don’t remember how I got here, but I did. heh.
June 19th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
Hey my name is Katie as you can tell. I was just searching through all the teen blogs and I found yours. I really like yours and I like the fact that you have been blogging for a long time. You see i just started my blog and i have no one to come and look at my, you know give me comments and things. So i was wondering if you could take a look at mine and tell me what you think. I will add you to my blogroll and comment you often.
Thanks a bunch, katie.
June 23rd, 2005 at 07:48 am
i agree, that movie was really good.
June 27th, 2005 at 01:13 pm
My younger cousins and I wanted to watch that movie when we were in Malaysia, but it was given the rating “Above 18″ there. Which means my cousins couldn’t watch the show.
September 30th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
Just recently, I’ve watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I liked the story and the humor in the movie. Does that happen in real life? Anyway, what was nice to see in the movie is how their romance have survived all the difficult and unimaginable circumstances they went through. That’s how love binds two people together even if circumstances seem to try to break their bond.