New Year's Eve

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Myself

This film is like the white noise of romantic comedies. The writer and director of Valentine's Day decided they hadn't got enough milage out of that film so the shuffled things about a bit and changed the setting. Really, it's the EXACT SAME MOVIE. They even make fun of this fact in the awful credit blooper reel by literally pulling the Valentine's Day bluray out of Jessica Biel's vagina and shoving it in our faces. And then the DVD. I wonder what's next. Arbour Day? Labor Day? Inauguration Day?

This film has a cast list a mile long and doesn't do much with any of them. Although I liked to think Cary Elwes was reprising his role from the Saw franchise. They would intercut nicely. All the stories are light a fluffy, except Robert De Niro dying of cancer. That was just boring.

The most impressive thing about the film was creating New Years Eve 2012 in Time Square. Good job. The Arri Alexa night footage looks pretty great, very saturated and colourful but even then, there is a lot of very obvious digital enhancement trying to make Katherine Heigl look human. Ew.

The advantage of having so many stories is that if you don't like one plot line, chances are the film will have moved on to something else within a few minuets. For me though, there was a greater percentage of dislikes so that didn't help. It's a bland romantic comedy (that was neither romantic nor funny) and the best, the film is inoffensive.