The Back-Up Plan, part 9 - SPOILERS

[clair]

I don't as a general rule watch actors I like do interviews. Now and then but not often. To many times I've found out someone I really like is a jerk.....so the only interview I've ever seen Alex do was with Craig Ferguson and that was sort of odd but then a lot of Ferguson's interviews are odd. Grace mentioned Alex's appearance with Jimmy Kimmel and I thought that if it had been terrible I'd of heard about it so I went in search and watched on YouTube. Very sweet and silly and if possible I think Alex is more charming than I did before. Now that was a really good interview.

I also watched the clip of him at the premier for BUP and for the first time realized how really tall he is. I think because of the way movies and TV are shot, perspective and all that I just never noticed it. At the premier though he was head and shoulders above most everyone in the room.

[allegrita]

Clair, Alex is amazingly nice in interviews. Ferguson's not a good example, because Ferguson himself is such a kook... Alex is usually as he was on Kimmel, or even nicer. Watch the Rachel Ray interview, it's adorable!

[clair]

Clair, Alex is amazingly nice in interviews. Ferguson's not a good example, because Ferguson himself is such a kook... Alex is usually as he was on Kimmel, or even nicer. Watch the Rachel Ray interview, it's adorable!

I will watch the Rachel clip.

Adorable is such a good word for Alex. Even on Kimmel's show he was adorable and charming and silly and cute and handsome and gorgeous.....way to easy to get carried away describing Alex.

[lunalux]

For those interested...didn't see it posted here...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04 ... ffice.html

Even though the #1 (Dragon) and #3 (Date Night) are in subsequent weeks, I consider this respectable and will take it. Give it another couple of weeks, and hopefully, it will make CBS Films some money. And at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.

[allegrita]

Yeah, me too. I'll take it...and I'm hoping that the movie will have staying power, and that CBS will end up making money on it. And as (I think) grace said earlier, this is right about in the range that the CBS guy said they were aiming for. Now we need to talk all our friends into going next weekend, and the weekend after that...

[redwinter101]

Another cute little interview with Alex:

http://thestir.cafemom.com/entertainmen ... s_the_back

Red

[redwinter101]

Some UK coverage: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/art ... t-all.html

Before you get too excited, it's 95% about JLo's life and family with a few bits and pieces about the movie.

Red

[redwinter101]

And The Guardian's take on the box office numbers:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog ... ck-up-plan

Red

[eris]

Honestly, if they'd cast a younger actress, I bet it would have done better. It may sound terrible, but even a few years difference (maybe Drew Barrymore-ish) would have had a pronounced effect. I guarantee you the people who turned up their noses at the concept weren't just thinking there's no way a guy'd fall for a pregnant woman (which is total b.s.), they were thinking there's no way he'd fall for an OLDER woman. They needed someone younger than AO'L to pull it off. (Actually someone Scarlett Johansen's age would have ROCKED in that part. And the casting would have made much more sense.)

It's the same principle that sunk The Family Stone when they put Sarah Jessica Parker in the lead role. She was too old to be "mismatched" with the lead.

[nutmegger911]

Someone younger than Alex? It would not work in the story line. She got inseminated because she had been dating for a loooong time without finding the elusive Mr. Right and was feeling the pressure of her biological clock.

[wpgrace]

That could be, eris... but I also detect some negativity about JLo, period.

I've never thought twice about her and only went to this movie for Alex. I always thought of her as someone who had risen far above what her talent warranted... tho I am allllll gratitude to her at this point, for agreeing to put Alex in her movie. But I think some of that Diva Thing (Yeah yeah yeah, Alex says she's not like that... but really, not at ALL like that, Alex? Really? Not even a little bit? I think he's just being nice.) was off-putting to folks and they're kicking her while she's down now... plus, you live by the T&A, you die by the T&A... and no one is all that interested in a 40 year old asset. If you're a woman. Not fair, but true.

But kinda the POINT of the movie was about an older, settled, utterly self-sufficient woman who has been around the block ( jLo reference) a time or two and decided to go it alone... only THEN to meet the One. And I think originally, Stan was sposed to be her age too. Alex DOES look younger than she in the movie... and they've made him seem younger by still being in school. Or just going back to school.

So Zoe is supposed to be older. I wish the world would LET a woman be sexy and older. Besides Sharon Stone I mean. Who is a caricature of a sexy woman.

[eris]

They could have framed it around someone with a "before I'm 30" list. J-Lo's 40, which is pretty far outside the Hollywood Rom-com threshold. Yes, it sounds stupid and unfair, but these movies are supposed to be fairy tales, and no one ages past 30 in fairy tales.

[cassysj]

They could have framed it around someone with a "before I'm 30" list. J-Lo's 40, which is pretty far outside the Hollywood Rom-com threshold. Yes, it sounds stupid and unfair, but these movies are supposed to be fairy tales, and no one ages past 30 in fairy tales.

It is unfair but it is very true in the movie world. My sister said she really thought J-Lo was too old for this part and she thought she would look "really" old next to Alex. (She's not even an Alex fan) She did look great in this movie and I thought the coupling looked better than I thought but now that you mention it I could have seen Drew Barrymore in the Zoe part.

[clair]

plus, you live by the T&A, you die by the T&A... and no one is all that interested in a 40 year old asset. If you're a woman. Not fair, but true.

Not exactly. My mid 30s boss told me he saw a picture of her the other day and told me he couldn't believe how hot she is.

I posted somewhere above that I couldn't believe what a lightening rod she is for criticism. It seems to me that a lot of the criticism about the movie isn't about the movie it's about her. Some reviews barley mention the rest of the cast. I think this is the first thing I've ever seen her in....uh except maybe wasn't she in some movie with a giant snake? I saw that. I don't as a rule do rom/com (only for Alex).

As for her being to old.....I hate that eris is probably right to a certain degree and if she is it's a shame. Personally I think JLo is very beautiful.

The age difference only entered my mind in the context of her wanting to have the baby because she was running out of time.

[nutmegger911]

I agree with Clair. Those who gave harsh reviews spent a lot of time talking about JLo, and not necessarily about her performance in the film.