When we started writing this blog – we really didn’t have any reason to do it beyond “hey, this is part of your module grade, write this stuff now or you’re gonna fail.”
Posted by Haiqal Sari Online Content Manager Okay, before I start, let me just get one thing straight. I do NOT abhor romance flicks. In fact, I love them. Love them to the point that I proudly place (500) Days of Summer in the top five of my “all-time favourite films” list. I’ve watched everything from Titanic (overrated, but yeah, it fits the description) to 2011 Taiwanese hit “You Are the Apple of my Eye”. In short, romance films are very much in my system.
Alright, big-screen adaptations of books are fine. Harry Potter, Hunger Games and The Lord of the Rings are just some of the many not-so-original works that have graced cinema screens and squeezed out my lunch money over the years. Yeah, you’re all pretty much verbally abusing me with the same old “humans are visual people, these movies have given life to my favourite characters” and all that fluff. But if there’s one thing that I can’t stand, it’s movie studios producing the same old “man-meets-woman” love story. A group of friends going for a bachelor/bachelorette party, wreaking havoc and panic while they’re at it. Sounds like a pretty decent idea, doesn’t it? Now, it’s pretty unfair to compare a trilogy against a stand-alone movie, so we’re only comparing the first Hangover film this time.
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