2006-09-30

Kissing Jessica Stein - wtf?


Fuck. Around the wedding scene I was thinking the movie would be a little bit too sugar sweet if it ended right there right then. But hell I would have prefered that – cause fuck...!
    Ok, you know how on Amazon they have all these lists that members have made, with – for example – "my favourite musicals", "greatest TV series boxsets" and "looking for lesbian films to watch?". Yeah, there are quite many lists with lesbian movies, and there are a few movies that tend to show up on most of them. One of these – and one of the only ones I hadn't seen to this morning – is Kissing Jessica Stein.
    Now, I always expected this one to be rather corny – probably one of those movies where you sit through two hours of waiting for the two girls to kiss, and finally in the last scene, they do. That's what I expected, and I honestly didn't feel like Kissing Jessica Stein was a movie I had to see. Well, I expected wrong – and this I realised almost immediately as I started watching. The characters where a lot more interesting than I thought they would be – actually, Jessica herself reminded me a lot of a girl I dated for a few months a while back – and the story wasn't quite so much an i-love-you-but-i-don't-wan't-to-be-gay story as I had imagined.
    So, I was happy with what I found. Girl hasn't dated in a while, doesn't like the men she does date, meets girl, likes girl, is a bit awkward but hey it's all cute and it all goes relatively well. Pretty much all through the movie. Yayness – right? Personally, I didn't use to be into the whole sweet-love-story-with-a-happy-ending thing, I don't really see myself as that person – but to be honest, I completely adore movies like But I'm A Cheerleader and Imagine Me & You. I need those unrealistic tales to give me hope yet make me feel depressed and lonely – and I trusted Kissing Jessica Stein to do that same thing for me! But oh my Joss did it disappoint me.
    When I say disappoint, I am obviously not talking about the actual movie as much as the ending. Turning Jessica straight was a bad idea – bad bad bad. And the ending just didn't make sense – what were they trying to say with this? This certainly wasn't the simplest way to end the movie, so they must have had some kind of point in doing so. Not only does the couple we have wooted for the entire movie not end up together – but our main character falls for the man she has been not interested in for years and years and years? Uh uh, bad decision.
    Again, I would have prefered it if they ended it after Jessica's brother's wedding – when everything was almost annoyingly sweet – 'cause basically... this was no fun.
    Yes I am being childish, but I really expected this to be a silly lesbian happy ending story – that's what I wanted to see... Ah well, I guess I'll have to rewatch Imagine Me & You for the tenth time then. See ya babes. Mhm.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, as usual, I've stolen my opinions from Joss Whedon. When he talks about Buffy and Angel, as opposed to Buffy and Spike, he's always cranky that people can't get over the idea that Angel and Buffy are soul mates. Joss says, sure they were... then. The people Buffy and Angel were then were destined for each other, but the people they are now might not be.

I did find the 180 turnaround a little odd, but hey, even the most promising relationship can come to a natural end. I guess it's cool they took a different way out, like they just wanted to add it to prove that it really is just another relationship. All the same, it was annoying after rooting for the girls for so damn long. We were committed, dammit!

Mikey said...

Hehe. I have thought about changing this post a few times, since I honestly don't care too much now, but right after seeing the movie, I was this upset. And sure it's possible to change your mind, thing is it just happened in the very end of the movie, seemingly 'cause of nothing (not their breakup but the fact that Jessica liked the guy she seemed to have disliked forever). I'm silly about this stuff, obviously, I just expected a silly Imagine Me & You love story, and was disappointed that wasn't what I got :)

epo

Anonymous said...

There's always Bound, that's got a happy-ish ending. :D

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