It's sad how popular act... by Himanshu Khanna on Openvy

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It's sad how popular actors make for popular movies, even if the movie itself is blah! More on that soon. Anyway, this is a random Rom-Com recco on something I stumbled upon recently. And another popular star Rom-Com you should avoid at all costs Enter the loop at your risk 🤪

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Himanshu Khanna

It's sad how popular actors make for popular movies, even if the movie itself is blah! More on that soon. Anyway, this is a random Rom-Com recco on something I stumbled upon recently. And another popular star Rom-Com you should avoid at all costs Enter the loop at your risk 🤪

Rocky Rani?

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Nah nah, I'm doing better!

Let's start with What to Avoid 🤮

Please say no to No Hard Feelings. It's just plain bad at so many levels, it's not funny. And yes, it's not funny other than a few forced smirks that you'll gift yourself out of pity. Can I please avoid the details? Just do yourself a favour and don't watch it.

Now for something I'd recommend you try 🫶

Love at First Sight is soulful. Try it out! 😍 Sharing my reasons below 👇

1. Starts at an airport. I think it's a cliche I've started admiring — the start of a lover's tale at the airport. And their short conversation about what Airports mean to them, is pretty interesting. Sort of what @jitesh would've discussed 🤭

2. For everyone who loves stats and a novel's narrative, this is pretty interesting. You'd know why when you see it. Do let me know your thoughts on this element 🙏

3. It's based in London and the shots are AMAZING!!!!!!! Everything from colour scheme, to the framing of shots and the cinematography, is an absolute winner. This movies made me re-realise after long about what I crave as a visual theme in a film.

4. The plot, the conversations, the subtle cliched twists, the nuances, the personalities — everything is interesting enough and yet subdued. One gets to soak it evenly and not be overwhelmed.

As a bonus, a lot of references are from classic novels and authors. And so if you love the reads, this should be a fun watch!

cyberjunkie

Himanshu Khanna

Love at First Sight is soulful. Try it out! 😍 Sharing my reasons below 👇

Really? I fell asleep halfway in

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Sneha Das

Really? I fell asleep halfway in

All romantics are different. That's the reason most rom-coms have lower ratings. Only the most polarising ones tend to be rated higher.

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Himanshu Khanna

All romantics are different. That's the reason most rom-coms have lower ratings. Only the most polarising ones tend to be rated higher.

I don't go by ratings anyway. I did finish watching the film later and had some thoughts. Felt the lead actors didn't have much of a chemistry to begin with and wasn't sure about the narrative gimmick they had playing beyond the 4th wall. But yes, the premise definitely drew me in—I wish the script could have delivered on that front.

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Sneha Das

I don't go by ratings anyway. I did finish watching the film later and had some thoughts. Felt the lead actors didn't have much of a chemistry to begin with and wasn't sure about the narrative gimmick they had playing beyond the 4th wall. But yes, the premise definitely drew me in—I wish the script could have delivered on that front.

Sort of how I describe every decent rom-com out there 😁

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What're your favs @cyberjunkie?

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Himanshu Khanna

What're your favs @cyberjunkie?

I liked 16 Candles, Notting Hill, 10 Things I Hate About You, Confessions of a Shopaholic, when I first watched them... but there's only one I prefer to revisit time to time and that's Easy A 😭

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Kind of looking forward to Emma's latest, Poor Things, because I feel she does great comedy... (why not, she's a cat in human form).

Similarly, I think they wrote No Hard Feelings around JLaw and she asked bigger bucks in turn. Although she was her usual self in the movie, I was shockingly impressed by Andrew B. Feldmen, the other lead. Good chuckles here and there

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Sneha Das

Similarly, I think they wrote No Hard Feelings around JLaw and she asked bigger bucks in turn. Although she was her usual self in the movie, I was shockingly impressed by Andrew B. Feldmen, the other lead. Good chuckles here and there

I don't share this feelings 🫠

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cyberjunkie

Himanshu Khanna

I don't share this feelings 🫠

Not even the Pepsi scene?

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Shagun

I don't know why writers don't come up with some crazy and unexpected twists and entertainment like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith. All the movies feel the same to me, with easily predictable stories within 15-20 minutes into them. K-dramas often have the same story, with a rich CEO and a poor girl. Instead, I would suggest watching I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Your Name, Weathering with You, and 5 Centimeters Per Second.

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shagun tyagi

I don't know why writers don't come up with some crazy and unexpected twists and entertainment like 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith. All the movies feel the same to me, with easily predictable stories within 15-20 minutes into them. K-dramas often have the same story, with a rich CEO and a poor girl. Instead, I would suggest watching I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Your Name, Weathering with You, and 5 Centimeters Per Second.

Seen them all 🫤

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Sneha Das

I liked 16 Candles, Notting Hill, 10 Things I Hate About You, Confessions of a Shopaholic, when I first watched them... but there's only one I prefer to revisit time to time and that's Easy A 😭

Samesies. But instead of Easy A, it’s Crazy Stupid Love for me.

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Mohit Vainsh

Samesies. But instead of Easy A, it’s Crazy Stupid Love for me.

Oh I love that one

cyberjunkie

Mohit Vainsh

Samesies. But instead of Easy A, it’s Crazy Stupid Love for me.

Oh that's definitely one of the better ones. Haven't watched it in years but the Emma-Gosling abs scene reappears in my YT and Facebook reels every now and then

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Mohit Vainsh

Samesies. But instead of Easy A, it’s Crazy Stupid Love for me.

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Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Glenn Ficarra · 2011

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I suddenly got a craving for this movie while reading this loop 😄🧡

sneha

I decided to rewatch old rom coms at the beginning of this year and soon realised that I was have zero fun rewatching the movies I thought were classics.

Himanshu Khanna

3. It's based in London and the shots are AMAZING!!!!!!! Everything from colour scheme, to the framing of shots and the cinematography, is an absolute winner. This movies made me re-realise after long about what I crave as a visual theme in a film.

Loved it. The whole thing. I laughed and I cried (the funeral thing).

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Sneha Mehta

Loved it. The whole thing. I laughed and I cried (the funeral thing).

I found a good part of it to be quite clever

Sneha Mehta

I decided to rewatch old rom coms at the beginning of this year and soon realised that I was have zero fun rewatching the movies I thought were classics.

Really? Like which ones?

Himanshu Khanna

Love at First Sight is soulful. Try it out! 😍 Sharing my reasons below 👇

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Love at First Sight

Vanessa Caswill · 2023

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anuragshastrii

I loved it too It didn’t get a lot of love surprisingly

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Anurag Shastri

I loved it too It didn’t get a lot of love surprisingly

Lack of marketing I think

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Himanshu Khanna

I suddenly got a craving for this movie while reading this loop 😄🧡

Oh i love this movie. The way they presented ryan gosling in this movie 🤌🏻

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Himanshu Khanna

Lack of marketing I think

Yea you’re right

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sneha

Himanshu Khanna

Really? Like which ones?

Notting hill, sleepless in Seattle, You’ve got mail, 10 things I hate about you, 27 dresses (BAD) after that I stopped rewatching and ruining them for me.

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Sneha Mehta

Notting hill, sleepless in Seattle, You’ve got mail, 10 things I hate about you, 27 dresses (BAD) after that I stopped rewatching and ruining them for me.

All of them made sense as a teenager IMO. Not as a mid-life adult

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sneha

Himanshu Khanna

All of them made sense as a teenager IMO. Not as a mid-life adult

I felt like the story starts where the movie ends.

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Sneha Mehta

I felt like the story starts where the movie ends.

because that's our current stage of life

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