Letters to Juliet : Heroine Overdose

Dear Hopeless Romantics and gush-aholics,

Please be sure to steer clear of this film. As your fearless leader and in some senses, supreme leader, I advise you to see another movie -- Iron Man 2 perhaps? I don't like the arguing, because I cannot figure out WTF Pepper is saying half the time or what they're even arguing about. She seems to start arguing in medias res, and the wind pressure alone would have killed her in the end, making Iron Man's valiant rescue of Pepper a violent death, but let's not niggle over details. It's hellah more romantic than Letters to Juliet. Every aspect of Letters to Juliet is symptomatic of what is wrong with how people view romantic relationships. If it's not good and it doesn't fit in your life, the best rule of thumb is to let the fuck go. Literally, let the fuck go. It might be a good fuck, but...it's best to let it go.

I was in the theater with people sighing and saying "Oh she's cheating," under their breaths, when Sophie kisses Charlie. Yeah, that was their idea of "cheating." Mm-hm. Anyways! What I don't like about this film is not that I could have written the dialogue in a sleepless stupor at 5am, but that it teaches people that in order to find the love of your life, you must a) cheat on your significant other or b) return to some far off remote place fully delusional that he will be the exact person you knew when you loved him. Long lost love Lorenzo says, "When it comes to love, it's never too late." Yes, sometimes it is. People change, people! I guess it's not too much of a spoiler to inform you that there is indeed a Romeo and Juliet scene.

OTOH: this film represents the culmination some serious method acting on behalf of both Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave, which is reason alone to watch this film, if I still haven't dissuaded you.