December 21, 2013. Saturday, 12:00am (Philippine time).
I'm currently pondering over the Christmas gifts that I will be giving this year. Last Christmas was pretty lonely (gift wise) but still happy since I got to be with my parents. This year, I am giving presents (even though I'm quite broke) to my friends and family! I want every gift to be personalized, and just last Wednesday my friend and I got really tired of going around from store to store looking for gifts. Nevertheless, buying gifts for everyone made me fulfilled contrary to the stressful start of December that I had.
For this post, I will be talking about the movie Just Friends, starring Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart.
Ryan Reynolds plays Chris, a fat guy in high school whose best friend is a pretty and popular girl, Jamie (Amy Smart).
You can probably guess that Chris is in the "friend zone." Look at the adorable shirt Jamie got him for their high school graduation.
Chris was bullied upon everyone finding out about his feelings for Jamie. He wanted to prove all of those jerks who bullied him that he can change and become better than they were. He then went to college, got a job in LA and became successful.
Ten years after he experienced the most shameful night of his life, he's now a gorgeous fit man who's a big time record producer in LA. Now that he's a handsome guy who's got it all, women like him and he likes them back, but just enough to sleep with them for one night.
Being a record producer, he's assigned with a task to bring their record's new pop singer, Samantha James (Anna Faris) to Paris, but then their private jet emergency landed on a place near Chris's hometown in New Jersey. The screenshot above showed the two (Chris and Samantha) "surprising" Chris's mom by crashing in their home.
Chris is finally conveniently in his hometown, where his old best friend (Jamie) is. He reunited with some old friends in a bar in town and there he also reunited with Jamie. Jamie (as shown above) is now working as a bartender. They got together again and hung out as friends and visited places that they used to hang out in. Chris also found out that Jamie is not just a bartender, but also a teacher.
This is a long shot of Jamie's house which decorations are beautifully and effortfully put together.
All throughout the movie, we can see Christmas decors, Christmas events like singing carols, Christmas parties, and the like, amidst the white, fluffy and cold exterior.
Going back to the story.. Chris and Jamie hung out like when they were in high school, but now that they're adults, anything could happen, right? However, Chris's plan to sleep with Jamie did not work out, probably because he wanted to do that as some sort of "revenge" for his "friend zoned" self in high school and yet he still seems to have feelings for Jamie. Jamie also seemed to want to be with Chris this time despite keeping him in the "friend zone" in high school.
And as chick flicks go, something happened that caused the main characters to be in a fight and reevaluate the things that they've done, and so Chris went back to LA. But then he didn't last long and immediately went back home to be with Jamie, and then Jamie also accepted him. Aww. So cliché right? That's what we love about chick flicks! Anyway, all's well that ends well!
Four days left until Christmas and I still have four more movies to blabber about in this blog!
P.S.
This Christmas countdown will make up for the few weeks that I didn't have a Reel Thursday article. I've been squeezing in some Christmas movies in between reading for grad school to cheer me up a little and that's why I have these movies.
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