Something Borrowed (2011)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Simply A Masterpiece

Sadly Over-hyped

Really Surprised!

I saw this movie years ago, and whenever the subject of worst movies comes up, this one is always #1 for me. There are movies that stay with you because they are great and tell great stories that stick. This one sticks for all of the wrong reasons. I am kind of disgusted that there are human beings that like this movie at all, because I don't think the characters portrayed in the movie can possibly all exist together in the same social circle without the universe imploding on itself. The unlikable levels of nearly all of the characters are off the charts. It must set a record for the highest amount of unlikeable characters in a movie ever. All of the women remotely associated with this movie should have their woman-card revoked. This is a vile film and horrible plot for women, and I would say also pretty bad for the men too. Seriously, we should have a national holiday to annually remember the tragic events that lead up the the making of this film, and vow to never subject humanity to a movie remotely like this ever again. Never again people, never again.

I understand that the movie is based off of a book, so for that reason, I won't rate as terribly as I thought it originally deserved. That being said, most of the movie was pretty good and sucked me in pretty quickly. But then the end happened and I hated Rachel as a character and everyone involved in making this movie for giving it such a cliché ending. She let everyone push her around the whole movie. I thought that maybe there was just a glimpse of hope at the end, but no. Dex had toyed with Rachel for months and cheated on her best friend whom he was engaged to at the time. If he had already been having these thoughts and was a decent man, he would have broken it off before anything happened. I hated him almost immediately. But Rachel on the other hand, I actually kind of liked. I thought maybe, just maybe she would finally realize that she was too good for Dex and didn't need him to be happy. But no. She apparently was completely okay with the fact that he had been cheating with her for months. Of course he's not going to cheat again because they're meant for each other, right? Whatever. I've always found it really funny how this behavior is looked completely down upon in the real world (as it should be) but is practically praised in Hollywood because everyone just knew that they were soulmates. The end of this movie was utter and complete crap, and I use that word because there is just not another one that will accurately and intelligently describe my feelings.

This was a fun chick flick in my opinion, lots of morals involved here and a situation that occurs much more frequently then some people would like to hear. I don't condone cheating but sometimes you have to go where your heart is and in this movie Rachel was merely reclaiming what was hers in the first place. Her BFF didn't really love him anyway and was also sleeping behind his back so I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. In reality Rachel wouldn't have let a hot guy like that go so easily to her BFF. One negative is that if you're going to portray someone as being less attractive than the other girl at least choose an actress that isn't just as pretty as the other. I enjoyed the comedy aspect of the movie too, JK is extremely funny.

Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) and Darcy (Kate Hudson) are life long friends. Dex (Colin Egglesfield) was Rachel's college friend when Darcy budded in. Now Darcy and Dex are about to get married. But Rachel still has feelings for Dex and they sleep together.This movie has 2 problems and 1 great positive.Colin Egglesfield is a horribly bland lead. It's unbelievable that two great girls are battling over him. John Krasinski is an infinitely better lead. There are countless others that would be a vast improvement. Although Krasinski and Ashley Williams have some funny jokes.Second problem is that Rachel jumped into bed with Dex so early. It puts her in a moral deficit right off the bat. It makes rooting for her next to impossible.The one great positive is Ginnifer Goodwin. She pulls off the impossible by being such a sweetheart. I can't help but root for her no matter what. I don't think the movie people actually questioned the premise. At least, they could have given GG the moral high grounds.