![]() Inconsistent characters, dark emotional jolts and predictable jokes break up the mirth meter and leave the movie a muddled mess. “Life as We Know It”: Two single people (Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel) must deal with a baby who comes into their lives.Some might have thought them mad for tackling such a tough subject, but they prove it was a very sane decision. Because they ask for empathy, not sympathy, for the characters, it’s easy to look at the players in the mental melodrama - including Zach Galifianakis of “The Hangover” - and see a little bit of ourselves in them. “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”: The film, based on the novel by Ned Vizzini, follows Craig (Keir Gilchrist), a confused teen with thoughts of suicide.Īnna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the writing/directing team behind “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” use a delicate mix of smart writing, good acting and amazing visuals.Set to music, it shows us more candid moments of the actors doing what they do when they are being paid be around each other for 12-14 hours a day.Three new DVDs take a look how friends and family can cause big changes in a person’s life. The “Producer’s Photo Gallery” is basically a still photo journal taken while on the set. As the moments that are captured are steeped in candor, it seems like this probably isn’t possible. The outtakes are the stock outtakes we have come to know and appreciate, although I am starting to wonder if there isn’t a way to make them less pedantic. There really isn’t too much to say about them other than that they range in length, and really are not anything that special. Not a ton of deleted scenes but there are about a handful on here. Outtakes, Deleted Scenes and Producer’s Photo Gallery Add to this that a bunch of people are ALSO talking and you get what sometimes sounds like a jumbled mess. Where were they recorded? In a cave? I didn’t listen to a lot of any of these tracks simply because they sounded so bad. The two episodes that were never aired are “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Junk” and “Papa Wheelie.” Since I had never seen any of these episodes before, I guess you could say that all of them are unaired to me, right? Although, why these episodes weren’t shown but the others were is beyond me, simply because they all seem to be at the same level. Two Never Before Seen Episodes and Audio Commentaries ![]() Not just in it’s visual presentation but in an acting sense. ![]() I even found myself getting into the relationship that Dino has with Jackie, simply because I felt that it was done well. ![]() What I liked about this show was that the women the guys are after are all different, and the unique style of storytelling that accompanies their quest only bolsters what a strong TV show this really was. While these three characters represent 3 different “types,” their goal, like a lot of people’s goals in High School (and life) is scoring with women. This show focuses on Dino, Ben and Jonathan. While the overall theme is pretty much what we have come to expect from these shows, that growing up is hard and we’ve just got to deal with it, the way in which it was executed and the stories overall were pretty darn entertaining. This was my first assumption but as I started to watch the show, I was really impressed with it’s different take on High School life. On the surface Life As We Know It seems like one of those “typical” teen shows in which the characters are all really good looking, and we are somehow supposed to be able to relate to their plight as normal people. ![]()
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