Like highschool me trying to talk my best friend out of getting an album he wants and buying one I want instead so I can make a tape off of it.
Like that except highschool me in this analogy is a white girl and my best friend is a Pakistani immigrant and the album he wants is a traditional family wedding and the thing I want him to do is me.
Yeah, there's a racist undertone to this movie that kind of kept me on my guard and prevented me from letting go and trying to enjoy this.
I'm really not cut out for romances because I keep wondering why women in movies need a man to complete them. Just ignore me, I'll be over here watching Women Talking or Men or Promising Young Woman again.
Oh, and PS, if this woman is a documentary filmmaker, I had no idea how simple making a feature film documentary is. You just basically buy a nice Canon camera and walk around pointing it at people. Who knew?
I thought the end could have been braver or more ambiguous. Felt like it did really well to compare western idea of love to another cultures, but then with the ending just said “western love is best”.
Good film though, great acting and very funny.
I disliked this so much. Nothing could be more boring and cliché than this. They should have done the exact opposite of what they did. That would have been unexpected, original and fresh. The guy going with the marriage and the girl do go out with the vet guy and finding out that she enjoys him and not prejudging things so fast.
Largely underwhelming, even if 'What’s Love Got to Do with It?' holds a few redeeming qualities.
It's all competently shot and all that, the music for example is excellent - nice work, Nitin Sawhney & Co. The level of acting is also all good, though I wouldn't say there is necessarily anyone that stands out individually. On that note, Emma Thompson: As usual I like her, but her character isn't the best - I feel like I've seen her play the same (similar, at best) character one or two times before recently-ish, 'Last Christmas' for example. She's merits more to work with.
The story is one that is almost as old as time, like with the aforementioned I feel like I've seen this plot play out many a time. It has a couple of unique elements I guess, but overall it's pretty derivative. I'm also not sold on Lily James' Zoe being 'Player 1', so to speak... like, her character is fairly meh.
In fact, I'd go as far to say that Mariam Haque's Jamila should've been the film's key - that part of the story interested me the most of anything else portrayed onscreen. Haque and Michael Marcus's portion only features relatively smally, so I kinda wish they used them two instead as their bits are the most touching.
All in all, it's fine - but is too mundane and predictable to be definitively enjoyable, in my opinion of course.
It tries to be a documentary about modern arranged marriage. But couldn't be further from the truth. Shit movie.
It was never boring, so I felt entertained enough. Generic romcom though with no twists and nothing unexpected. You could guess every single piece of the plot before it happened.
Would still recommend it, I like the idea of the documentary movie about arranged marriages, which this movie itself kinda actually is... double layered.
Lighthearted and fun but predictable romcom. Nothing happens that you can’t see coming a mile off, but it’s still a lot of fun in the happy bits and sad in the sad bits. Sit back, switch off, and enjoy.
Solid film but nothing spectacular. Entertaining and colorful film. Enjoyed it today in a sneak preview.
Shout by Obione_TdGVIP 3BlockedParent2023-03-25T08:06:18Z
Film which could not effectively disentangle the comedy (Emma Thompson was often out of place and timing in this respect), and the romantic drama (extremely predictable).