A long first scene shows us Holly and Gerry arguing as they walk into their too-small New York apartment, unconsciously undressing for bed as they snap and bicker. Rewatching the film, I basically start crying about 12 minutes in. It doesn’t sound like thigh-cracking stuff, which is what makes its success all the more fantastic. It’s about Holly (Hilary Swank) trying to cope after her husband Gerry (Butler) dies in his 30s of a brain tumour. PS I Love You is based on the Cecelia Ahern novel of the same name. But I have to stand up for one of the most unjustly smeared films of the last 20 years, nay of all time. Although it’s a lot better than reviewers gave it credit for, that is not a hill on which I will get wounded, let alone die. ![]() I am not going to say that in PS I Love You, Gerard Butler – whose real accent will remain a secret until the day he dies – does a good impression of an Irishman. Watch it and if your hand isn't over your eyes by the end of it, you're a better person than us.Īnd yet, despite all the cringing, we'll still watch it whenever it's on TV.Continuing our series of writers sticking up for loathed films is a defence of the commercially successful yet critically lambasted romance ![]() He is then joined by his father and as the eyes of the older two meet, Bates' character immediately drops her box of chocolates. She meets her new love interest Jeffrey Dean Morgan and introduces her mother to him. The surreal scene happens at the end of the film when Holly returns to Ireland with her mother. Ok, that's an exaggeration but only a slight one. It's quite possibly the most cringeworthy moment in film history. We kind of judge veteran actress Kathy Bates for taking part in this scene. When she tries to explain that she hasn't done it very often, even though she's been 'seeing this boy'.he cuts her off.Įxplaining that the boy she was seeing was a 'boyo', he declares that kissing is 'a man's business' before going in for the kill.ĥ. Holly kisses him quickly on the mouth to which Gerry replies with a big Oirish 'Ow'. Their first kiss is unbelievably cringy but it's meant to be. When Gerry says that kissing is 'a man's business' 'Kissing is a man's business' The moment that really takes the biscuit though is when Fairytale of New York starts blasting out and the priest officiating sings the offensive part - 'Ya scumbag, ya maggot, ya cheap, lousy, fa**ot' - with gusto!Ĥ. The filmmakers employ every Irish cliché in the book for Gerry's funeral, from the alcohol shots to the twee music, to the fact that it takes place in a pub! When the priest at the funeral sings the 'rude' part of Fairytale of New York Unfortunately, the relief is short-lived because that dismal accent comes out again to which Holly responds: 'I can't believe I'm in love with a leprechaun!'ģ. It starts to get seriously embarrassing then and when he fakes an injury so he can end it, he's not the only one who's relieved. We know this is meant to be funny and it is - for about ten seconds. The actor should have changed his name to Gerard Butcher for the film's press junkets, as an explanation for what he did to our lilting Irish brogue. Gerard Butler is the leading man in this film and being Irish is a huge part of his character's supposed 'charm'.īut the end product is so cringeworthy, it's actually distracting. It was so bad that he famously apologised to the Irish people for it, and with good reason. ![]() While we know that there are plenty of intentional humorous moments in the film, here are a few that are probably got more laughs than they were supposed to.
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