90s Movie Review - 10 Things I Hate About You

Director: Gil Junger
Genre: Comedy/ Romance
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 1999
Starring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan, Larry Miller, Allison Janney, Susan May Pratt, Gabrielle Union

Description: Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is a pretty and popular teenager who can’t go out on a date until her ill tempered older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) does.

Review: Walter Stratford is afraid that his youngest daughter Bianca ends up with babies, if she ever goes on a date. That’s why she is not allowed to date. Of course, Bianca doesn’t accept that, so dad adjusts the rule. She can date, if her older sister Kat does too. Sounds reasonable, but it actually isn’t. Kat is a feisty, sometimes bitchy teen. Newcomer Cameron, who falls for Bianca immediately, finds a way to take Bianca out. He has to find a guy to date Kat. Joey, a very popular boy, helps him by paying Patrick Verona to take out Kat. But then it turns out that Patrick starts liking Kat.
“10 Things I Hate About You” is one of the few romantic teen comedies that I absolutely love. The acting is pretty good, the script is original (at that time at least). There are many characters that I really like and can relate too. And the music is perfect for the atmosphere of the film.
I’ve seen this comedy many times and it’s the perfect date movie.

Rating: 4,5/ 5

100 Movie Challenge 2017 - # 33: Mother's Day

Director: Garry Marshall
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Runtime: 118 minutes
Year: 2016
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Julia Roberts, Britt Robertson, Timothy Olyphant, Shay Mitchell, Sarah Chalke, Jon Lovitz, Hector Elizondo, Larry Miller, Jack Whitehall

Description: Three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.

Review: Mother’s Day is the day that we celebrate all the great mothers on the planet. They deserved their own film, but this is not really the tribute I was hoping for.
We follow several stories revolving around mothers a week before Mother’s Day. Jesse has to solve a fight with her mother, but also kept it a secret that she married an Indian man and together they have a son. Her sister also hides something, the fact that she is gay. Kristen is adopted and wants to meet her biological mom: career lady Miranda. Sandy has to share mother’s day with her ex-husband’s new wife, who is much younger than her. And Bradley and his daughters are still struggling after their wife/ mother’s death.
We had “New Year’s Eve” and “Valentine’s Day”, which weren’t all that great to begin with. “Mother’s Day” isn’t either. I liked Jennifer Aniston, but I always like her. But the rest of the cast is a bit bland. And that story of Jess was just oo ridiculous. She and her sister kept such a big secret, because their parents are pretty racist and not very open minded. And everything is forgiven and forgotten in literally one second. Not believable at all.
I don’t think “Mother’s Day” is film that would make a lot of mothers happy. It’s hardly funny, super cliché and predictable. Out of all the assemble films with multiple storylines, that eventually cross paths, there is only one film in this genre that wins. And it’s not by Garry Marshall (it’s “Love Actually”, in case you were wondering). So if you want to watch a film with your mom on mother’s day, don’t watch this.

Rating: 2/ 5