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About a Boy (2002)
High Grant is a PG Patrick Bateman
This film was watchable. Had a couple of good laughs. Mostly though it's that kind of forgettable slightly "quirky" British film kind of like Bridget Jones 3 where the characters are kind of more like characatures than real people.
In a way, I feel this film was ahead of its time in predicting more modern lifestyles (staying at home more often, excessive consumerism, pervasive societal vanity) through Hugh Grant's character. You can completely imagine the thousands of guys out there like him nowadays, getting rich from some remote job that requires minimal effort, hopping on Tinder to get laid etc. He's kind of like a PG Patrick Bateman.
This is definitely a film Richard Curtis fans will like. Similar setting, similar humour, Hugh Grant etc. In some ways, I wonder if this film is subtly aimed slightly more at women...Hugh Grant is in a roundabout way "tamed" out of his philandering lifestyle by a loose association of miscellaneous women, each of them influencing him in their own ways. Nicholas Hoult has the "cute" factor. In a weird way, this is actually quite a female-centred film. It's the kind of thing I can imagine middle class mums in 2002 urging their husbands and sons to go and watch together.
The Bostonians (1984)
Can't realistically give any more than six stars
I can't lie, most of this film is pretty boring. The last scene is okay.
Surprised this came out when it did...the ethos seems pretty anti-feminist if you ask me, as the suffergettes are not portrayed in the best light.
You may like this film better than me if you're into costime drama or that period or history or something.
Haven't got anything else to say really. I'm only writing this bit to reach the character limit. Probably won't re-watch this. May try watching another couple of Merchant-Ivory films before writing the sub-genre off completely. Okay seems i've reached the minimim characters now.