The Roommate

A modern day revamp of the classic film Single White Female but without the thrills and replaced with cliches. Though Leighton Meester played an excellent artistic psycho, she didn’t have the right material to demonstrate her acting abilities. Every time something scary was supposed to happen I ended up having a giggle fit. If it were marketed as a comedy, it would’ve been successful. I didn’t care about the boring, one-dimensional main character. In fact, I wanted her crazy roommate to do her in. I wanted more from this, but it was nothing more than how the trailers portrayed it.

Love and Other Drugs

Do naked people make an otherwise dull and cliché romantic drama more interesting? Not so much. This movie could not decide what it wanted be, much like it's main character. It wavers between raunchy comedy and romantic drama in a completely disassociated way. I did very much enjoy the raunchy comedy and funny younger brother very much, but the Parkinson's drama was just trite and really got in the way of the sex; or for those of you who like the love story the sex distracts from it. I kept wanting the sex and drama to mix into a beautiful film, but I was left disappointed in a mist of unoriginality.