A bunch of us just watched the movie The Best of Me (2014) staring Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden. It’s a great movie to watch with your girlfriend, wife, or mistress, as long as you can keep from sobbing hysterically. Women like a guy that shows some sensitivity (a little watering of the eyes at the appropriate times) but don’t do much more than that or she’ll think you’re gay.
The movie is about a pair of high school sweethearts who reunite 21 years later. When they were young the girl introduced the boy to her rich dad who pretends to be impressed with the boy’s high grades and outstanding SAT scores (1520) and then offers to show the boy his car collection. Once they’re alone, he informs the boy that someone like him can’t afford college, but he’ll make it easy by giving him $80 K (big money in those days) if he stays away from his daughter. The boy tells the rich dad to buzz off (using more vulgar language) and continues to date the daughter, but at the same time he is constantly encouraging the girl to dump him because he loves her so much he’d rather let her go then impede her bright future.
It was a good movie but it would have been a lot better had they not had Luke Bracey (born in 1989) play the male lead at age 18 and James Marsden (born in 1973) play the male lead at 39. Marsden doesn’t look like an older version of Bracey he looks like a completely different person. They don’t even look like they’re related, let alone the same individual. Hard to maintain empathy for a character when he suddenly looks like someone else entirely. It’s not like one actor is a child and the other is a man; both are fully grown men so the massive physical transformation is very distracting. The casting for the young and old female lead is much better done.
The movie was fiction but in reality there’s a great tradition of paying people not to date your kid. I was watching an episode of Life Story Project on the OWN network…a show where they place a purple couch on a busy street, park or beach, and ask strangers to talk about their lives. On one episode a woman talked about how much she loved a black boy when she was young but in the morning he was gone, never to return. “If he loved you he wouldn’t have accepted the money,” her mother explained.
How old are you Pumpkin ?
As a celebrity I try not to give out too much personal information for obvious reasons. But compared to the age of the actors I was discussing in this movie, I’m older than Luke Bracey but younger than James Marsden
Which one are you closer in age ?
I’m not close in age to either of them. I don’t think I should be more specific than that. A lot of people read this blog and I live in a small town where everyone knows me & many grew up with me. The less personal info I give the better.
So you are born in 1981 ? (age is not a very personnal information)
Did I say I was born in 1981? I said I was in between the age of both actors but not close in age to either one. That does not nessecarily mean my age is the average of both men
You know what closer mean ?
You know what closer mean ?
Yes. But close and closer mean two different things. You can be not close to either point, yet still be closer to one point than another. For example, six feet tall is closer to 5 feet tall than it is to 8 feet tall, but it’s not close to either height.
Yes but my question was using the term closer and not close
who the fuck are they?
pp is a twelve year old non-white lesbian.
duh!
Celebrity is a prole thing…
Celebrity is a status aspired to by proles.
unless you’re a STEM celebrity
Agree, but, not-so-like that. Celebrity like Pumpkin demonstrate.
If any individual in STEM aspired to celebrity, he would be prole, too.
no!
i have experience with natsci. it’s the same.
the Stoics and Plotinus were right.
aspiring to fame of whatever sort is despicable and disgusting.
and class?
The Official Preppy Handbook says that the thoroughgoing preppy can’t tolerate anymore than an announcement of his wedding and his death.
interesting
Can’t you start giving a rating for movies, so a poor fellow don’t have watch them before he reads the whole blogpost. This one would have gotten one rotten tomato, way too American. Thank lord they didn’t mention God, then it would have been no rotten tomatoes at all.