The Reel Rejects - THE PROPOSAL (2009) MOVIE REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:19 Yes. Citizens of the rejagnation, it's me, Tara Erickson, and I don't know why I have a terrible accent. That was awesome. This is my host, John, I'm... Humphrey. Hey, you got there. I did it. You got there, too.

Starting point is 00:01:39 How are you, John? I'm good. I'm wishing I had a better Ryan Reynolds impression for you. That was pretty good. I can do it sometimes. It'll get better as the movie goes. Okay, all right. I'd like to see it.

Starting point is 00:01:50 Who here has like a low-key obsession with Ryan Reynolds? Because me a little bit, but it's from my show. Welcome to Rexum, have you guys? If you don't know about it, he's in this. What's your favorite Ryan Reynolds joint? Exactly. You got to write it down right now. Me, currently my favorite, Ron Reynolds, is welcome to Rexham.

Starting point is 00:02:07 Thanks for prepped for helping us edit down these videos. Also, you get super sexy. You got to get on the Patreon. You can sync up with your own copy and watch most of all the proposal with me and John. Also, Greg and John offer exclusive highlights and watch the logs over there on Patreon. So if you go over there, you get sexy, but not just like sexy. He's like super sexy. Like, you see how he's touched his butt, and it burns!

Starting point is 00:02:30 It's burning with sex! Okay, are we ready to watch it? Almost, but you missed the most important, iconic part of the intro. What is it? You got to leave a like. More important than leaving a like is the part where you... Ring the bell! Ring the bell!

Starting point is 00:02:50 You guys, how did I forget that? Guys, I'm not being true to myself, but thank God. I'm in Christmas gear and oh my god Santa I know him I know I'm killing John's ears and I'm killing you guys but we're going to get into we're going to watch the proposal and get this three longest intro ever

Starting point is 00:03:08 two one oh is that going well so far it's great thank you does Andrew use men's speed stick what flavor alpine was it love at first sight is it flavor or a scent I loved her

Starting point is 00:03:28 From the beginning I'm outside the bed Do you sleep on? Look Hey Will they kill each other? No We don't use the word

Starting point is 00:03:42 Margaret around Kevin He still has warmed up to her Oh my God Kevin is so Kevin She farts in her sleep Oh no It's not true Girls don't have that part of their body

Starting point is 00:03:54 No I call him I'm a puppy. Pumpkin. Monkey. Daisy. Kiddo. Oh, oh no.

Starting point is 00:04:02 Well, when you say, you know, the position in the relationship. Top or bottom. Ah. He knew your favorite color. Green. Blue? Wrong. White.

Starting point is 00:04:14 White. What's her favorite color when she's not at home? When she's not at home. Yes, I'm a serious. Are you crazy? Oh, no, Rapon. Who are you engaged to? Andrew.

Starting point is 00:04:31 Very good. Got one right. No. Who are you engaged to? I'm engaged to Margaret Tate. And on the wedding day, who will be next to you? What? Is this a game show?

Starting point is 00:04:44 I don't understand what... This is a fascinating medley of moments. Lanz da die long. Ah! Stand beside. Oh, my goodness. Land that I love. Oh, my goodness, gracious me.

Starting point is 00:05:04 If you're listening to this on Apple, Spotify, leave a rate and a review. He gave it a thumbs up, do all the things. Give it some stars. You know how to do, how to do it. Absolutely. I love this movie. I did too.

Starting point is 00:05:22 Oh, my God. Yeah, no, this was so delightful. and like you know I love a good romance I'm often sitting here with the kinds of movies we more often enjoy and take in thinking like oh man we'd love some romance I can get behind you know especially modern movies like there are times when you're like oh cool this doesn't have to be a love story but now I feel like we've done a lot of that so now you know I'm always like yeah bring me some love but I love this because yeah this had all the like you know hijinks and ups and downs of a romantic comedy but it was just like an actual romance movie you know yeah like it followed all of the tropes of like they run to the airport the the strife that happens and like how they end up falling for each other but there were so many real moments that it was like you can't even be like oh this is supposed to be funny it's like all of it during the whole time with physical humor as well as the pacing and the tone yeah funny when it needed to be and the times when it was like

Starting point is 00:06:24 serious without them like really hamming it up it was just so real especially like the first time that you know she starts sharing with him in the bed like all of the things that she likes finds

Starting point is 00:06:39 finds attractive all the stuff about her and as you said like the camera was moving from one side to the other to basically change a point of view like that is when the switch happened I think more so between them and it was just such a beautiful like moment and that this movie was filled with it like when she was with the grandma with

Starting point is 00:06:58 the dress I was like this is so touching and the grandma in the plane like there are some serious little um little spouts from every character like giving these monologues that normally I feel like in a rom-com would feel like we get it let them just get this like trope over with I never felt like this in this movie never felt all real yeah I never felt like uh Yeah, exactly. It's like it has all the, it felt like reading some kind of romance novel in that everything was well fleshed out, everything was conscientious, it didn't rest on, I mean, you know, it's the perfect proposal for a movie, you know, like, oh, yeah, the green card wedding and, you know, this particular power dynamic and they're going to go through all the crazy hijinks of, yeah, learning to actually maybe like and perhaps even love each other. but yeah it never and not to slight other romantic comedies that are more overtly just trying to have fun being that genre but yeah there's something about this that felt a bit different and it doesn't feel like a medley of tropes gleefully strung together like the tropes are in there but it all felt pretty natural just because of the circumstances and so yeah you have you know you don't get too wild and too wacky it's not like meet the parents or something where, you know, it's going to get gross out

Starting point is 00:08:21 or anything like that. And I love that, yeah, it's like you've got her as a Canadian, you know, in this position to be deported. You got Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor. You know, that's fun. Is this Sandy Canadian, too? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:08:34 I don't know. But, but yeah, like, it's such a, you could easily have made this a wackier, raunchier comedy. But I thought this was just the right amount of everything. Yeah. Because, you know, like, it is kind of steamy

Starting point is 00:08:47 at certain moments, but it's not like, I don't know broie about it it's not like off-putting or raunchy in that respect and then like the little moments of you know a genuine romance feel genuine and I love the interplay of like when you can tell she is starting to open up to him and the small ways in which he you know assumes you know a greater power position because they're on his turf now and takes a little bit longer to kind of open up to her and the back and forth of the journey getting them to the end felt really well earned and well observed and it never felt I can't think of anything that really felt like a contrivance because we need something to happen and the audience will forgive us because you know as long as the chemistry is good we're fine you know like it never like I was really kind of impressed because there's some really lovely direction in here it's smartly written and and like I don't know a ton of Anne Fletcher's other stuff but I thought this had like just the right amount of like it's not in your face with style choices necessarily but

Starting point is 00:09:55 it's like really nicely paste and the again the way it's photographed and the way it uses its settings is really nice and the way again in some of those scenes it's visually representing the changing in their dynamics i just thought was like really uh kind of subtle and and and uh graceful i guess is is the word i'm looking for graceful is good yeah i also thought that in the the in the scene where she drowns because the writing in here is so good but like one trope is like oh of course she's gonna fall off the boat

Starting point is 00:10:26 and like she can't swim right so he's got to save her that is a trope that we would see and I think specifically with the direction is what I saw there is what I really truly liked is that the direction was like no you can't swim

Starting point is 00:10:41 like you're gonna be hanging on to this and you're probably like frozen in fear you can't move and that moment to me was like so real because any other director or, you know, a possible thing of like, oh, it's funny. She falls off the boat. And, of course, you got to put her back in and, like, you got to warm her up. And now you got to, like, you get to hold her.

Starting point is 00:11:01 But all of that was, was just done so grounded and so real. And I love that. I assume the direction was like, hey, like, you can't swim. You're panicking. He's really got to, like, basically peel you off this buoy. Yeah. And then when he does, like, hold you. it's like you don't you're so amped up and now you you have no reason to like not even dive into him

Starting point is 00:11:26 at that time and that was someone yeah yeah and i really love that yeah because in an in another movie that might have been played just for wackiness yeah and bigger and broader for a rom-com world and that was so real yeah and i love the way it straddled that line because again so many of these moments could easily play out in a in a different tonality but yeah like that bit where he's they're careening toward the buoy it's like a natural reason you would swerve and then i had that moment when she's like struggling to take the hand off of it to to reach out for him i my initial thought was we'll just reach out to him you're just in the water but then i i realized in that moment the the plot point hit me and i was like oh yeah like you said that would be traumatic and terrifying and you're

Starting point is 00:12:17 probably just trying to clutch to any solid thing and probably not wanting to let go. And even later on in the movie where, you know, she leaves and he is, you know, sort of bargaining with the situation and he's all frustrated now because he's like spiraled out of control, the situation that he did have sort of under what felt like a kind of control is now beyond that for him. And then she is in like trying to deny the feelings outright and just be like, you know what? I'm just going to leave. It's fine.

Starting point is 00:12:44 like the way they still had those very human it's not just like oh well now he has to go to her and she will say yes and everything will be okay it's like i like that they took the time for each of those moments to have they say that like every scene should have a dynamic and have like a structure or have little acts to it and i feel like this movie was good at doing that yeah uh because yeah there are so many this is the kind of movie that on surface you wouldn't expect to rely so heavily on its actors, and not to say that any other element is flagging or anything, but yeah, the actors across this have, you know, their natural charms to bring, but also everybody has their own feelings and their, at least, you know, you get light looks

Starting point is 00:13:30 into the family dynamic. And yeah, you have grandma who is very much, you know, the warm, sort of encouraging presence. And then you have mom who's sort of stuck in the middle and, like, you know, dad wants the best for you, but is being overbearing and is overstepping boundaries and mom's trying to hold it all together and all those things registered really naturally and then when they start splitting off the characters like yeah you have friggin ramone stripping which is fun and delightful and i was totally there for it and i feel like the movie earns you know when it decides to jump into it earns absurdity and yeah and that was an example of something more fantastical about this movie that i i am a sucker for that trope of like the same guy works

Starting point is 00:14:10 everywhere in town he's got every job so great Yeah, and even the guy, the agent comes out. And they didn't have to do any crazy thing where we put laxatives in his coffee or something like that. Oh, my God. Like, you know, it was... Classic. I feel like this is one of those movies where I'm like,

Starting point is 00:14:28 no matter who you got cast as, if you're a character, it seems like everybody got to bring some of their chops. And yeah, it's a great combination of director and script. And it's awesome to see a movie where... I mean, Sandra Bullock has given many great performances. And Ryan Reynolds has too, but I like to see a movie again. I miss the time when Ryan Reynolds wasn't just the Ryan Reynolds of today,

Starting point is 00:14:53 where like every role is his particular brand of demeanor. Right. And everything is kind of Ryan Reynolds slash Deadpool, except for ironically Deadpool, because at least he's not beautiful in that role. Right. So to see him here in a role that, yeah, capitalizes on his innate voice and charm,

Starting point is 00:15:11 it also felt like he's actually playing. playing a character and actually in a situation rather than a movie is happening around him. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, and it was just so so gratifying. And yeah, I was I got all the things I laughed, I cried, I got, you know, worked up. I'm curious, I want to find out. Is Betty White of Indigenous heritage? Because that's one of those, you know, like she goes out into the woods and she's like dancing with her and they're doing this like ceremony.

Starting point is 00:15:41 Okay, so she was of Danish, Greek, English, or Wales to say it's an interesting choice for that character because part of me was like, I wonder if they did this because she actually is or... Yeah, yeah. Or, you know, if this is an element, it's like they're in Alaska, so I'd have to imagine that if you're, if you have grown up there, maybe there's a chance of probability that you might have some indigenous roots to you. Right. Yeah, so that's a bit problematic. She is, you know, the character, I guess, by now standards versus 2009.

Starting point is 00:16:15 Like, I wasn't seeing there like, I am offended. But in other, if this was made today, I feel like you would cast somebody with a bit of that, you know, heritage. And I like that, that I really liked her story when she's like, yeah, my, my parents, they didn't approve of their union because he was Russian. And then I forget what tribe she mentioned. But like, it's part of the character. It's not like a goofy for, it's kind of goofy. that scene is perhaps I guess the most probably the proposal in and of itself is problematic but that's part of the fun yeah if there's something that's truly like kind of like oh interesting again I wasn't upset but I am also like ah this is kind of like a way this hasn't aged the best right but even in that today that wouldn't exist yeah or again it would exist with a slightly different casting decision without a white woman yeah but as far as those things go to it's like I'm kind of searching around for some kind of, you know, criticism in that sense.

Starting point is 00:17:14 Yeah, I don't really have any. Because everything, yeah, just it flowed so nicely. And I love that this, I don't know, like, not that every romantic movie should be this, but this had all the joys I get out of watching a romantic comedy, but also just like all the joys I get out of watching like a solidly executed and conceived film. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:33 And Sandra B, like, she always delivers, but she really, it's in the moments where she doesn't, say anything and you know what she's feeling and she's on the verge of like tears when or she feels really hurt when he in the cinnamon rolls with a bed and you just see it in her face and then you see it in her face when she's with a grandma and you see it in her face when she's coming down the aisle so when you say like this film relies so heavily on actors I think like the biggest thing and I'm a firm believer in it is that half of your job is done with really good casting yeah I think that's half of directing is being like this was We cast everybody for a reason, yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:12 And then you don't really have to stress as a director because you're not going to have to be redirecting or giving line reads, right? You're just like, oh, these people, I trust them, and we can just roll and just focus really more on the vision of how you wanted to come to life, which is awesome. And I assume, like, it was kind of a breeze working with these actors. And I, like, loved it. Yeah, one, too. I mean, like, they, just a couple straight things.

Starting point is 00:18:37 Like I think, for example, Maline Ackerman is a great casting choice because you see her and you think of what kind of a movie you're in and you're like, oh, I know where this is going. And it never goes there. And it lets her use her natural charm. Those electric blue eyes.

Starting point is 00:18:53 You know, she's lovely. But there's never really, aside from like the natural insecurity, there's never really any melodrama, you know, contrived out of that. Nope. She's not trying to win him back the whole time or like, secretly in love with him or trying to like make the other girl look bad.

Starting point is 00:19:11 There wasn't any of that, which is great. Yeah, they just acknowledge it and it's a, it's an anxiety to some extent. But then they, you know, they, yeah, they use it just appropriately. And it's a great combination you have casting with, yeah, what kind of moment we're in. Yeah. And yeah, and even just the way that there are two characters. Because also you look at the beginning and you're like, she is completely overbearing and he is completely spineless. Right.

Starting point is 00:19:35 And you can see. how that is a toxic loop for sure but by the end you can also see especially with her just I thought that whole I thought that was played really nicely because it's so easy to be lost in the surface of their you know odd couple back and forth

Starting point is 00:19:50 but when she's like no you have a family you have people who care about you and who like want to have a connection with you that you could actually be fostering and instead you're just like selling all of your soul to me yep and so like after that point it just feels like oh but I can I can see how opposites attract

Starting point is 00:20:07 And I could see how this dynamic that we started with with a little bit of emotional connection growth and letting go of certain baggage could lead to two people who are actually well equipped to lift each other up in different ways. Yeah. So like that was another cool thing. I wasn't like, oh, this toxicity is just erased now and they're great, perfect people. No, it made sense how they could get there. Yeah. And then ending it on the interview that you know is going to still be a shit show, I think is lovely. And you're watching the credits

Starting point is 00:20:38 and I think that's appropriate because it exists outside the movie and you're like okay everyone's getting all the answers wrong so like you know I don't know how this is gonna go but yeah at the same time yeah chef's kiss man

Starting point is 00:20:48 I had such a lovely time with this Bravo like this is a movie that I would rewatch like that I go oh yeah I'd buy this movie like seriously I loved it so much I would show this movie to people in fact I saw a thing

Starting point is 00:21:01 I can't remember what it was it was something it was like what's your favorite Maybe it's even just like a random tweet thrown out there of like, what's your favorite holiday movie that's not overtly a holiday movie that just either happens to feature a holiday or, you know, is just one that you know during a family setting, you know, it'd probably go over pretty well.

Starting point is 00:21:21 And like, this is a movie that kind of came to mind just now. I was like, you know what? This isn't a Christmas movie, but you know, you're in Alaska, you're in this old town. But it has like a vibe and it's like, it's snowy. It's cozy. Yeah. And it's heartwarming by the end.

Starting point is 00:21:33 But it's also going to, you know, it's going to hit you. you in the fields too i'm like yeah it's basically a christmas movie just without the decorations because if there were decorations there it would just be like oh it's a christmas movie you just don't talk about it because everything is like it's just because it's that like cozy it's alpine yeah yeah yeah yeah like i loved it good job like bravo we love this movie we would share it we also love you so much leave your thoughts down below how much did you love it yes And what other rom-coms maybe should we watch? I don't know.

Starting point is 00:22:07 There's a lot of classics I'm not seen. Yeah, give us some juice. You know we love it. We love you so much. Get real reject, you know, like a t-shirt. If you haven't gotten it already. Get on Patreon. Do the right things.

Starting point is 00:22:19 You know what I mean? Spike Lee would approve. Get together. We love you so much. That's all we got for you. And we will see you on the next one. Bye. M-M-Wha.

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The Reel Rejects - THE PROPOSAL (2009) MOVIE REVIEW! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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