As I mentioned in the last post, I'm going to now review the movie I just watched because it had Colin Firth in it and I thought it would be a good starting point (and for convenience, it was on netflix).
It was your fairly standard romantic comedy, I'd say, although I don't really watch that genre very much. This is the first one I can distinctly remember watching but I may have seen one or two in the past that aren't coming to mind. As far as romantic comedies go, it was pretty solid. It seemed to fit all the boxes for the genre. I think it's one of Colin Firth's more famous roles in addition to Pride and Prejudice, which is probably his most famous role (like Titanic and Leonardo).
Colin Firth looked intensely (sometimes) apprehensive for many of the scenes in this movie. Or maybe that's just his natural expression. Regardless, he looked fairly good and had fluffy hair, which is always nice. He kind of reminds me of a better looking (and British) version of Mark Ruffalo, minus the weird sounding voice that Mark Ruffalo has where it sounds like he doesn't move his tongue around enough in his mouth when he talks. Colin Firth has a soft, squareish shaped face and for reasons I can't really pinpoint I think I'd say he looks kind of endearing.
Watching such a movie now kind of has me in a sappy mood, and so I wouldn't really mind watching other similar movies. It made me wonder if Peter Sarsgaard has ever been in a romantic comedy but I think the closest is the romantic but not comedy movie where he plays a British man. So that might be fun even though I won't get to hear his natural voice. From the images I've seen of it, it looks like it's a very visually beautiful movie - nice colors and all. And of course, Peter Sarsgaard is part of the "visually beautiful" description. Although I don't really understand why they didn't just cast an actual British actor in the role. There have to have been plenty of decent looking British actors they could have used. It would've been interesting if they had cast, say, James D'Arcy, you know?? He probably would have been perfectly fine (although very tall).
I think there are two sequels to this movie, but only one of them (also starring Patrick Dempsey) is on Netflix. I'm not sure if I'll watch it quite yet as there are 7 other options on Netflix for Colin Firth movies and at least some of them should be good. I definitely think that Colin Firth could become a nice addition to my current favorite actors, each of whom are my favorites in different ways, if that makes sense. Vincent is my favorite in a different way than James who is different than Peter who is different than Leonardo. Maybe what I mean is that they are my favorites for slightly different reasons? Or not. Reasons: they are/were at some point good looking, they are good actors/I've enjoyed the things I've watched them in. That pretty much sums it up.
P.S.: I was going to just tack this on to the review of whatever I watched next, so here it is. The other day I watched All the President's Men, which is a movie about Watergate and Journalism. It's kind of old but I thought that it might be interesting especially in light of recent events and also since I wasn't alive to witness Watergate for myself. It was more boring than I expected but it wasn't a total waste of time. I still wouldn't watch it again though. The thing I liked most about it was the set decoration of the Washington Post's office, where a good portion of the movie took place since the journalists it was about worked for the Washington Post. As far as journalism movies (that I've seen) go, this one I liked less than Spotlight (with Mark Ruffalo), which in turn I liked less than Shattered Glass (with none other than Peter Sarsgaard). Spotlight was perfectly decent, but I thought that maybe it could have been more compelling or something, a little bit. Maybe I should watch it again and see if I like it better the second time around.
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