Playing It Cool
Published 2015-04-24
Film info
- Title Playing It Cool
- Director Justin Reardon
- Year 2014
- Run time 1hr 34m
- Genres Comedy, Romance
- Tagline Love... it's a balancing act
- Cast Chris Evans, Michelle Monaghan, Topher Grace, Aubrey Plaza, Luke Wilson, Anthony Mackie, Ioan Gruffudd
The story of a young writer disillusioned by love, who meets and falls for a breathtaking engaged woman at a charity dinner where he pretends to be a philanthropist. Challenged by the chase, and egged on by his eclectic friends, he feigns a platonic relationship in order to keep seeing her as he tries to conquer her heart.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 2:45 | High School Musical meets Glee, that'd be a cast. |
| 4:14 | "You think Terminator is more romantic than Ghost?" |
| 5:57 | There better be a running through the airport scene in this. |
| 7:54 | Cereal ruiner. |
| 10:27 | Boyfriend material! Best chat up line ever. |
| 18:13 | Enjoying the scrapbook nature of this film. |
| 19:15 | "You know what Colombo would do?" |
| 33:02 | High five! |
| 35:03 | Rage in the bowling alley! If you have to throw things, they're kinda heavy. |
| 37:25 | "I'm happy and he's stable." Not a huge romantic notion there. |
| 39:59 | Public outdoor squash? Amazing. |
| 45:12 | Castle Greyskull reference! |
| 51:32 | Same story. |
| 56:44 | "Welcome back Cap." CAP! |
| 1:07:06 | You can't throw away someone else's engagement ring no matter how angry you are! |
| 1:15:24 | Uh, Love in the Time of Cholera spoiler alert. |
| 1:19:09 | I KNEW IT. |
| 1:25:17 | Dude's tapdancing now. |
Thoughts
A properly oddball film, this one has to tread the line carefully between being smug about rom-coms whilst also being a blatant entry into that category of movies. It was fantastically quirky with little insert scenes, dressing up, the heart on your sleeve thing and some one-liners delivered so deadpan that you almost miss them.
Then again, it was a bit annoying because he wasn't actually that good of a guy and his friends were all bizarre and he got into a fight with Ioan Gruffudd. (Great to see him in a film, albeit only a slightly step up from the horrific Horrible Bosses scene.)
Even so, it was a nice little ninety minute movie, full of foreshadowing fun and I'd watch it again as some great background noise.
Rating: 3 / 5