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Over Her Dead Body (2008)
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"I was watching the poorly-received Over Her Dead Body (2008) the other night, (Rotten Tomatoes = 14%) and enjoying it, when, along toward the middle of the movie, Paul Rudd and Lake Bell realize that they're in love, and smooch. Then, pulling back, Rudd makes a little joke about it. Ok, I understand that there is such a thing as a "script," and that in this romantic comedy, the protagonists are keeping it light, but still... After Bell lays one on him, in a perfect world, wouldn't Rudd have a few more stars in his eyes? So it occured to me that his star power, so cool here, maybe was overmatching Lake's, whereas if he tried that with Angelina Jolie, say, he'd have looked like a schmoe. Could it be that when we talk about the chemistry between a man and a woman in a romantic movie, we're just comparing their relative star powers? If the luminesences match, the kiss works; otherwise, it doesn't? So that Tom Hanks can't give or receive a good smooch in his movies because he's too big, ... "
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"If you took one look at the existence of the new movie Ghost Town and dismissed it on account of its familiarity, you’re ignoring the potential of one of the most valuable plot devices available to fiction. Sure, the employment of ghosts in a narrative may also be evidence of laziness, as the device is just as much a convenience as it is a useful tool for storytellers. Not everyone can be Shakespeare, and of course there is a lot of redundancy and (excuse the pun) lifelessness in the majority of movies involving ghosts. However, ghosts can also be highly representative and/or serve a film on a deeper level than the surface story. To use another pun, ghost movies are not always so transparent. Like zombies, their plot-device sibling, ghosts have a way of signifying greater ideas, subjects and themes, and aren’t always merely about scares and talking-to-thin-air gags. In a conversation with Cinematical’s Erik Davis, Ghost Town director/co-writer David Koepp had this to say about the ... "
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"I can just imagine how the pitch went for this one. Writer Jeff Lowell (John Tucker Must Die) says, “I’ve got this idea for a movie that’s like Ghost except that in the end Demi Moore falls in love with Whoopi Goldberg. Nah, just kidding, I’ve got this really serious project in mind, very artsy, something that will lift me out of my sitcom-based pattern.” And then the New Line execs say, “Umm. Yeah, so we want to do your Ghost movie, but it has to be more heterosexual.” And Lowell says, “Oh, that was just a fake idea that I was going to propose as a parody to be used on Family Guy or The Simpsons.” Then New Line flashes a suitcase full of money at Lowell, says they’ll even let him direct the movie, and the deal is done. The result: Over Her Dead Body, a movie that seems so ridiculous that it just might work as a parody of itself. And I hope that Paul Rudd sees how silly the movie is and decided to star in "
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