What kind of title is Pretty Woman? Is the person who came up with it saying that it is unusual to be pretty? Is it saying that the writer thinks looks are someone’s most notable attribute? Well anyway, Julia Robert’s character (Vivian) turned out to have a nice personality in the narrative, so I think the movie should’ve been called Personality Woman, but they don’t let me write the titles of big Hollywood movies.
Oh man if they DID let me write the titles of Hollywood movies what would I name them? Ant In A Trench Coat Pretending He’s A Human Leader Of A Sovereign Nation. Suddenly I realize that they would stop letting me write movie titles right after I came up with that one. I’m still gonna come up with some more just in case I ever need them later (which I know is merely a lie to myself). Oh here how about this one– READING A BOOK: THE MOVIE!
You can probably tell that I wasn’t impressed with the movie this week. It just seemed to focus on the guy’s wealth and the woman’s appearance. Richard Gere’s character (Edward) does go through a bit of an arc of becoming a better person, however I still found him to be mostly unlikable and incapable of fully changing in a matter of a few days. So anyway back to the made up movie titles. GRABBING SOME DRIVE-THRU! That would be the comedy thriller of the year! It will be like a funny thing with like some friends in a van getting drive-thru or something, and like something crazy happens, and there are a lot of jokes, so it’s like a funny comedy, yet it’s like a thriller, because something crazy happens! Oops I wasn’t supposed to actually write a script or even a general plot. This little thread was supposed to be about what would happen if they hired me to write movie titles ONLY. If they would have hired me to write the titles of late 80’s action movies, I probably would’ve called one of them Live Hard, because Bruce Willis is still alive at the end of the movie.
Is It Worth Watching?: Not really. I found it to be a – what’s the word…reasonably disappointing film overall.
Final Thoughts: 4/10 Crowns. Pretty Woman was problematic for all of the reasons that you would imagine it might be problematic. The storyline really wasn’t quite the right message in so many directions. I don’t think this is just a matter of a movie that aged badly. I think that it was a weak perspective on power and wealth dynamics even in 1990. I really do enjoy many romantic comedy films. Unfortunately, this specific one was not well executed in my dramatic opinion. Now I’m gonna go either read a book or watch a movie. If only some Hollywood executive producers would finance my film, one day the world could do both at the same time!
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