The boring movie
“New Year’s Eve” consumes about two hours of your time. It depicts a fun and
optimistic night in Time Square.
While most New
Yorkers stay in their comfy homes and watch the ball drop. This movie shows the
melodramatic lives of different characters and their path taken on this “magical
night” on New Year’s Eve in NYC.
There is not one
drunk fool and the cops are quite nice. We New Yorkers like defining New Year’s
Eve as amateur night. In the picture perfect make over however the glitter and
sparkles take over the evening and everything falls into place. Confetti falls
when clock strikes 12. Forgiveness and new beginnings are on the rise. New
Year’s Eve becomes a life changing night.
Where have we seen
a similar plot with a different holiday you might ask? Well in last years film “Valentine’s
Day” which was too directed by Garry Marshall. The two films coincide with the
different points of view of the same night and intertwined events.
What would New
Year’s Eve in Time Square be with out the ball dropping? Claire (Hillary
Swank), the new vice president of the Time Square Alliance will be fired if she
doesn’t fixed the ball before midnight.
“New Year’s Eve”
has it all. There is drama, love, and even some comedy. A couple goes neck and neck in a race to
have the first-born baby in 2012 for a prize of $25,000. On the other hand the
rock star Jensen (Jon Bon Jovi) is performing a concert and trying to win back
the love of his life Laura (Katherine Heigl). A little love drama is always
necessary on New Year’s Eve right?
We then see Randy
played by sexy (Ashton Kutcher). He seems to be the Grinch of New Year’s Eve.
He hates the holiday and all things associated with it. Randy gets stuck in the
elevator with Elise (Lea Michele), who is Jensen’s back up singer. The two fall in love how practical.
Lastly, the old
draw out story of a teenager begging her mom to let her roam and party
alone. Kim (Sarah Jessica Parker)
who plays the mom that won’t let her daughter Hailey (Abigail Breslin) party
alone and get her kiss on midnight.
At last for the
fairy tale ending! Sam (Josh Duhamel) is determined to reunite with a girl her he
met the year before on the same day. She leaves him a note like Cinderella
leaves her prince her shoe. Her note states they are to meet in the same
restaurant a year later.
Michelle Pfeiffer
plays the character Ingrid as an assistant who has access to the hottest New
Year’s Eve party. Paul (Zac Efron) a bike messenger makes a deal with Ingrid to
make her list of dream come true in exchange for some party tickets.
There is then the
sad tale of a cancer patient Stan (Robert De Niro) who has a nurse (Halle
Berry). She sits by his side and tries to make his last wish come true. Which
is to watch the ball drop from the rooftop. How ironic?
Would I drag my
self out of bed to pay almost $12 for this movie? No. It is quite cliché. There
was a unique plot. There were how ever a few good laughs and Cinderella stories
always touch your heart.
I can see how you can easily relate to this movie, growing up in New York. I'm sure you have witnessed everything that has happened on this "magical" night, and you are able to see right through these plots. As an outsider, I enjoyed these plots to some extent, not thinking too much about how cliché they are. To me, the movie seemed to have too many things going on at once, but everything seemed to make sense in the end. Like you, I wouldn't urge anyone to go see it, but I also wouldn't stop them if they wanted to.
ReplyDeleteIt is great to hear an opinion on this about someone from New York. I feel like this movie, like most movies and shows made in and about New York, are Romanticized and don't show the city as it actually is. I also, like you, agree that the plot is similar to valentines day. It would be an okay movei to pay a dollar for at redbox but I would not want to pay to go to the theaters to see it.
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