The Way We Weren't

I mainly watch television shows these days; I used to watch movies more than anything. Probably 12,000-14,000 ratings here on movies alone. For some reason I'm watching a lot of TV shows these days (two years). Just finished "Sneaky Pete". Anyway, all A films are formulaic in the sense that you know what you're getting whether great, or not. B films try a little harder; most times they fail. I didn't know whether this was going to be Hallmarkish, or what. I hate Hallmark films. They're all the same and they emphasise drama over everything. You've seen one Hallmark film, you've seen them all. I can't believe they produced "Farscape". Anyway, this film has that Hallmark feel to it. I looked to see who produced it because it felt Hallmarkish in the beginning but when a character dropped the f-bomb, I knew it wasn't a Hallmark film. I was relieved and continued watching. This film is a story of love. Two people never really had it and they lie to each other about themselves to finally find what they've been missing. So sweet, I guess. On one side you have Charlotte (Fiona Gubelmann, "The Good Doctor", "Wilfred") who basically has only been with one man her entire life. She ends up pushing him off a cliff. He didn't die. Then you have Brandon (Ben Lawson, "Neighbours") who seems that he can't really commit to his girlfriend Ashley (Kristi Clainos) and finds her having sex in their bed with another guy who he faints on top of while their still engaged in intercourse. So, after a very short while, they get married. 10 days later they seek a divorce when they find out that they're both frauds and blaming the other rather than themselves. The only thing they start with of the 'truth' is a Swedish TV show they both love. It's not a great film. It has some humorous parts throughout, and I laughed several times. I'm not a 'smile' type of person. I'm an ornery kind of guy, at least that's what people tell me that know me. This film made me smile. I enjoyed it. I rate mainly on technical so I couldn't give this a higher rating than I did. The ending, of course, was predictable and one could see it coming once you figured out the film in the first 10 minutes. But that's okay. Not really a big deal for me because it made me smile and making an ornery guy like me smile, well, that takes something special. Also, it's always nice seeing Tobin Bell in something. Seeing him playing a hippy type character; that alone may be worth watching this film. I would have given it a 7/10 if they didn't have the private parts of the guy at the end blurred. Not saying I wanted to see that but if you're going to do a scene like that then do it, don't blur it.

I give it credit because I've seen worse but overall the film is crap. I'm quite pleased I managed to get through it. The story is poor, the acting is poor, the effects are beyond poor. I can't imagine that anyone whose seen the film can actually rate it 10/10.

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Really great cast. The leads have really good chemistry. I was rooting for them all the way through. Tons of comedy top to bottom on this one. Several twists. Shot in many locations. I want to see this couple in a squeal. Get the popcorn and wine. We loved it.

Great story idea and a great cast. But everything else (e.g. the script, direction, editing, and camera work) is terrible! I've seen tons of B movies and straight-to-video movies, but this looks more like a student film, like maybe a B or B- student. I don't know how so many successful actors were roped into participating. I'm actually very interested in how this movie came together. I imagine they ran out of time and money and were forced to submit a hastily thrown together rough cut, which they didn't even have time to review upon completion.

This is a gem of a movie! Charming story, witty dialogue and great characters. The writing is superb, and many of the scenes are laugh-out-loud funny. A great little romantic comedy to watch alone or with someone you like/love.

This film is a low budget terrible script shot on some cheap camera that makes it look like an iphone was used or a cheap camera. The acting is pretty lacking and not sure how anyone could rate this as a 10 unless they worked on the film which looks like shot locally in LA. I give it a 1 for being resourceful in stealing so many free cool locations.