Saturday, February 15, 2014

Endless Drudgery

Not much to say about Endless Love. This plot-free saccharine track has the balls to put a skinny blonde rich girl in the lead.  Cuz you know -- that's the most relatable demographic on the planet and such.  I don't remember the characters doing anything meaningful, relatable or sensical at any point.  These people have a "love to fight for" presumably that's their first love, but I didn't really see any point in the film.  Like, why did this film need to be made?!  WHY.

But it wasn't a good-bad film. It was just bad-bad. There was nothing redemptive about it.  The moments when we see glimpses of her underwear seemed inappropriate for the moment and while they could have been arousing, they only made me angry about how capricious this film was taking anything qualifying as content.  And Alex Pettyfer's American accent?! What was that?! Every once in a while he'd say an entire clause of a sentence in his British accent.  I'm not talking about the time his character impersonated a British person by speaking in his real accent. That was remarkably sad.  It's moment's like these that I wonder if I'm even watching a "film."  Are there people who watched this film, intended to see it and were pleased with their decision?  (Because I just ambled in aimlessly hoping to attend a free screening, as you do).

I'm sorry if I sound bitter.  I have problems with the very title of this film.  Endless Love implies that the bestower of the love has an immortal life, because only an immortal person has the capacity to bestow such love.  Endless love also implies that the the lovers have been with each other an interminably long time.  A few weeks is a far-cry from eternity.  I'm bored just writing about this film.