Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in "The Proposal"
Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) works for Golden Book as the chief editor. When she finds out that she is being deported back to Canada, she forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her. An immigration officer is suspicious of their marriage and warns them on conducting a fraud.
As Andrew accepts Margaret’s idea of marriage and a quicky divorce to follow, he makes her to promote him to the position of editor and have his manuscript be published.
They spend their weekends in Andrew’s hometown, Sitka, Alaska to celebrate the 90th birthday of Andrew’s grandmother Gammy (Betty White). Andrew announces his plan to marry Margaret in front of many friends and family members, everyone rejoices except Andrew’s father and ex-girlfriend Gertrude (Malin Akerman).
Andrew’s mother and grandmother insist to have Margaret and Andrew marry in the barn at their house in conjunction with Gammy’s birthday.
As Margaret is overwhelmed by the reception she receives from Andrew’s family, she decides to tell Andrew’s family about the truth and walk off from the wedding. Gammy fakes a heart attack in order to get Andrew to the airport. However, when Andrew reaches the airport, Margaret’s plane has already departed. Margaret has 24 hours to leave The United States of America as soon as she lands in New York. Andrew finds Margaret packing in her office and announces his love for Margaret in front of the entire office.
Overall, the movie is surprisingly entertaining with numerous satirical jokes. The chemistry between Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock is amazingly matching despite their age gap and position level in the film. While Ryan Reynolds is well-known for his sarcastic jokes, Sandra Bullock who is also the executive producer of the film, manages to pull this off as an attractive but arrogant boss that everybody hates.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a superhero movie based on the fictional character Wolverine. it is the prequel to the X-Men film trilogy. The film stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine/Logan/James.
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
In 1845 James Howlett sees his dad (Peter O’Brien) killed by Victor Creed’s dad (Aaron Jeffery). Furious, James kills Victor’s dad by using bone claws which extend from his hands. Before Creed dies, he tells James that he is also his son as James and Victor escape.
As they grow up, James (Hugh Jackman) and his half-brother, Victor (Liev Schreiber) are seen battling for the US in the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War. In Vietnam, Victor attacks and kills his superior and is sentenced to death together with his brother. They survive the firing squad due to their regenerative abilities and are imprisoned. William Stryker (Danny Huston) then approaches the two mutants and offers them to join his Team X, which consists of other mutants — Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand), John Wraith (will.i.am), Chris Bradley (Dominic Monaghan), as well as expert marksman David “Agent Zero” North (Daniel Henney) and blade-wielding Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds). The brothers join the group, and Stryker sends it to search for the source of adamantium in Nigeria. After an incident where Stryker orders the team to kill innocent civilians, Logan refuses and leaves the team.
A few years later, Logan works as a logger in Canada and lives with his girlfriend Kayla Silverfox (Lynn Collins). When Victor hunts down and kills Bradley, Stryker locates Logan to warn him someone from the now-disbanded Team-X is out to kill the remaining members. Logan refuses to help and as a result, his love interest is murdered by Victor. Logan hunts down Victor for revenge but is easily defeated. Stryker offers Logan help to kill Victor by infusing Logan’s skeletal system with adamantium. After the procedure, Stryker orders to erase Logan’s mind but Wolverine hears it and escapes the premise nakedly.
When an elderly couple sees Wolverine running around naked and goes into their barn for shelter, the old man enters the barn discreetly with a rifle only to end up offering Wolverine clothes, food and shelter. The next morning, the elderly couple are shot dead by Agent Zero. Wolverine flees in a motorcycle and eventually kills Agent Zero. Wolverine locates former teammates, John Wraith and Fred Dukes, seeking to learn about the whereabout of Stryker’s secret island only to find out Creed and Stryker are working together to roundup mutants and keep them in the island for experiments. Dukes reveals that a mutant named Remy LeBeau a.k.a. Gambit (Taylor Kitsch) had escaped from the island and would know the location. Wolverine learns that Team X had been tasked with capturing mutants, which was the reason why Wraith had left the group.
Wolverine finds Gambit in a bar only to be blown out of the bar by Gambit’s deck of cards. Outside the building, he sees Victor who has just finished off Wraith. With his adamantium claws, Logan manages to defeat Victor but is attacked by Gambit. Victor flees realizing he can’t match Logan’s superior ability. Gambit tries to escape but Wolverine manages to pin him down and persuade Gambit to take him to Stryker’s secret island.
Gambit flies his private plane won from gambling and drops Wolverine off at the location, Three Mile Island. In the lab, Wolverine confronts Stryker and learns Silverfox is still alive — she had earlier faked her death to lure Wolverine into becoming Weapon X because of her deal with Stryker who promises he would release her captive mutant sister Emma (Tahyna Tozzi) who has the ability to turn her skin into diamond. Wolverine leaves the premise disappointedly but when he hears Silverfox screams, Wolverine goes back and attack Victor and once again, easily defeats him. Silverfox convinces Wolverine to release her sister and other captive.
Stryker prematurely orders Weapon XI to be activated to kill Wolverine. Weapon XI is formerly Deadpool and consists of other mutant powers, including Cyclops’ optic blast, Wolverine regenerative ability, Deadpool’s martial arts ability and Wraith’s teleportation ability and retractable adamantium blades from his arm. Wolverine orders Silverfox to bring the young mutants to safety while he stays on to fight Weapon XI. Silverfox is injured during the escape while the other mutants manage to escape in Professor Charles Xavier’s (Patrick Stewart) helicopter.
When Weapon XI almost kills Wolverine, Victor appears and saves him. Together, they manage to defeat Weapon XI when Wolverine cuts off Weapon XI’s head with his adamantium claws heated with powerful optic blast. Wolverine is shot by the head by Stryker with adamantium bullets which makes him unconscious and wakes up with amnesia. Although Silverfox manages to use her power of persuasion to make Stryker walk away, she dies from bleeding. Gambit then returns to tell Wolverine that the young mutants are safe, but due to the amnesia Wolverine does not remember anything. When the cops arrive, Wolverine decides not to follow Gambit and flees the scene.
Before the ending credits, Stryker is seen walking until the armies stop him and he is wanted for investigation for murdering General Munson.
Overall, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a successful X-Men film far better than the X-Men trilogy as the movie doesn’t just focus on the mutant abilities and although there are less fighting scenes, the movie has a strong storyline of the origins of Wolverine and before the formation of X-Men.
The Proposal is a romantic comedy in which a publishing executive forces her assistant to marry her so she can avoid deportation back to Canada. The movie stars Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and will be released on June 19, 2009.
From the director of "Superbad" comes Adventureland, a comedy set in the summer of 1987 and centered around a recent college grad (Jesse Eisenberg) who takes a nowhere job at his local amusement park, only to find it’s the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world. Adventureland is set to be released on March 27, 2009.
Reynolds was previously engaged to singer Alanis Morissette. Coincidentally, Morrissette’s latest album, Flavors of Entanglement contains a bonus song titled "The Guy Who Leaves" — wonder if it’s referring to Reynolds?
After confirming her engagement to Ryan Reynolds, a brimful Scarlett Johansson shows off a sparkling diamond ring at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala in New York City.
Scarlett Johansson showing off her engagement ring
Guess who’s the luckiest man on earth? Definitely Ryan Reynolds, no maybe.
Scarlett Johansson, 23 and Ryan Reynolds, 31, the star of Definitely, Maybe and the popular sitcom, Two Guys and a Girl, are engaged. However, according to the rep, no wedding date has been set.
Definitely, Maybe is a romantic comedy film directed by Adam Brooks starring Ryan Reynolds (of Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place’s fame), Rachel Weisz, Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fisher and Abigail Breslin (Nim’s Island).
Ryan Reynolds and Abigail Breslin in "Definitely Maybe"
Will Hayes (Ryan Reynolds) is a 30-something father and has a 10-year-old daughter Maya (Abigail Breslin) who lives with her mother but is with him once or twice a week. Will is in a midst of a divorce when his daughter questions him about his life before marriage after her first sex-ed class. Will changes the names of the women he had relationship with in order to create a love mystery so Maya has to guess which of the three women is her mom.
Back in 1992, Will is a naively optimistic and aspiring politician who moves away from his college sweetheart, Emily (Elizabeth Banks) from Wisconsin to New York to work on the Bill Clinton campaign. She gives him a parcel and asks him to give it to her friend Summer Hartley (Rachel Weisz), a reporter. At work, Will meets April Hoffman (Isla Fisher), the copy girl for the campaign. Before bringing the parcel to Summer, Will opens it after being persuaded by his roommate only to find it is Summer’s diary. Encouraged by his roommate, he reads it, and comes across pages describing a love affair between Emily and Summer. He visits Summer to bring the diary, and meets her roommate and sometimes-lover, her college professor, a famous writer named Hampton Roth (Kevin Kline). After Will leaves and when he is moving away, Summer abruptly stops him and make-out with him.
April and Will meets outside work as both of them buy cigarettes from the same store. As both of them are smoking, April tells Will that it is her birthday and he offers to help her to celebrate. Instead, April wants Will to accompany her to go to a club as she does not feel like going there alone. When April finds out about Will’s plan to propose to Emily, she volunteers to be Emily so he can practice his proposal. April is taken aback by Will’s words, and replies, “Definitely, Maybe.” They go back to her apartment, where April has multiple copies of Jane Eyre in her collection, explaining that her father gave her a copy with an inscription in the front shortly before he died, and the book was shortly lost, therefore, every time she passes by a bookstore, she will buy a copy of Jane Eyre, hoping to find the lost copy that her father gave her. After their lengthy but empty conversation, Will and April eventually kiss, with Will leaving quickly and berating himself.
Emily visits and Will proposes in the park but he could say a word, Emily turns him down by telling him she slept with Will’s roommate, Charlie back in Wisconsin. Will becomes heartbroken. As time goes by very quickly and Bill Clinton becomes president of the United States, and Will moves up from a toilet-paper man to become speech-writer for a candidate to be Governor of New York. April travels the world, and she and Will become pen-pals and they keep in touch by writing letters to each other. Eventually, with the encouragement of Roth (who is dying), Will and Summer become romantically involved. This ends when she writes unfavorably about the politician Will works for. Will loses his jobs, his girlfriends and his best friend.
Will starts to drink heavily as he hates his job after finding out the president he has campaigned for is involved in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In a drunken rant, he confesses romantic feelings to April, but in the process, April tells Will that he is a mess and he responds back by telling her to “go to life rehab”.
Will eventually finds the copy of Jane Eyre that April’s father gave her. He goes to give it to her, but decides against it when he finds out that April and her boyfriend, Kevin are living together.
At a cafe, Summer and Will bump into each other and she invites him to a party. Emily, Will’s old ex-girlfriend, also attends the party, as she now lives in New York. They end up reconciling their relationship. Emily turns out to be Maya’s mother and Will’s ex-wife. Will signs the divorce papers served to him without a second thought.
Maya is glad that she figured out the story, but also realizes that her father still has feelings for April, as even though Will changed the names of Emily (Sarah in real life), and Summer (Natasha in real life), he did not change April’s name.
Encouraged by Maya, who wants her father to be happy, Will goes to Brooklyn to find April together with his daughter. The movie ends with Will confessing he held on to the copy of Jane Eyre because it was the only thing he had of hers. Maya and Will go to April’s apartment to reconcile, and the movie ends with April jumping into Will’s arms to kiss him.
Overall, even though Will’s life is depicted as complicated, this is definitely a romantic comedy that you should watch — no maybe. Great film to watch.
