![]() ![]() Years of building a façade over his true feelings start to chip away as the fantastic cast works their magic. He doesn’t believe in marriage or even love at all, stemming from a broken heart as a naïve middle-schooler watching Jenny dance with a ninth grader when he choked in asking her himself, and needs the cajoling of three ghosts armed with the reality of the loneliness his future holds to finally open his eyes to what’s right in front of him. Mead is a Scrooge when it comes to the conquest of women. It isn’t that the story of unrequited love between McConaughey’s Connor Mead, (I’m a bit perturbed that it never does get explained why Uncle Wayne calls him Dutch), and his childhood love Jenny, ( Jennifer Garner), resonates at all-sadly it doesn’t-but because of the cornucopia of supporting players that outshine the story itself. Usually that would fill my heads with preconceptions and premature hatred, so call me surprised that I unsuspectingly had a good time. On the scale of one to ten as far as originality goes, this thing is below one. Sure it was derivative yes it was obvious oh lord did it have a horribly orchestrated homage to Ebenezer Scrooge awakening to toss a coin to a young boy out the window in order to buy the Cratchits a turkey but I literally had a smile on my face for the duration. While sadly this is actually how my mind works, letting an innocuous fact about someone in relation to one of my favorite directors overshadow the issue at hand, I did seriously enjoy my time with Ghosts. No disrespect to the man as I’m a big fan of Mean Girls and have wanted to check out his Spiderwick Chronicles, but how does he know Darren Aronofsky? This has all of a sudden taken over my complete interest pertaining to the new Matthew McConaughey vehicle, (and yes girls, he does eventually have his shirt off, it just takes a little longer than expected-we had a bet going on before viewing in which I said he wouldn’t, but alas, a short five minute span ruined my victory). My research into the new A Christmas Carol rip-off for the rom-com demographic, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, yielded one very interesting tidbit of information-director Mark Waters received a “special thanks” on the production of Requiem for a Dream. ![]()
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