It wasn't James Blunt dude.

12.4.21 #article #blog #kfo #thisisthenew.me #movie #musing

The first two minutes and fifty eight seconds of the movie Closer is shot in slow motion. The Damien Rice* song “Can’t take my eyes off of you”, (the entire song mind you), plays for this entire sequence.

Thirty seconds in it was fine. Forty five seconds started to feel tedious. At one minute it feels like a gag.

A soft chuckle, with a little bit of “wtf, dude” escaped me. At two minutes in I realized Jude Law did not look sexy and I was uncomfortable looking at Natalie Portman, with her terrible “Pay attention to me cause I’m the red colored object.”in the scene. To be clear, I wasn’t feeling weird cause she looked like an eighties troll doll you’d have on your key ring. I was uncomfortable cause this was no longer the little girl from the movie with Jean Reno. This was her adult self.

I just want to point out that Damien Rice is still singing and the video is still in slow motion.

Anyway… I won’t spoil the rest for you.

“I can’t take my eyes off of you”

*I originally attributed the song to Jame Blunt.