So, it turns out I'm perfect for Alexis Bledel
Pop Eater finds Rory Gilmore likes her men good but a bit complicated.
Still, after the show finished?
I do go out and blow off steam but I don't seek attention when I'm doing it. You can't really relax and have a good time when you're being photographed, in my mind. That kind of kills the fun for me. I go to places where that doesn't happen.So 'The Good Guy' is about dating good guys and bad guys. Do you date good guys or bad guys?
Um, I don't know. Mostly good guys I think.Are you attracted to bad boys?
Not if I'm aware of it… I don't know. It's so funny to try to define people as good or bad. I know that's the theme of the film but no, not really. I've been pretty lucky to date so many nice guys.I mean the too nice guys. Do you ignore them?
It's nice when someone is a nice guy but he has to have something that's complicated, not too much (complication).
That I can do. … Another thing I can do? Stop Alexis from making half-awful movies. I'm not sure how she keeps doing this. I saw Post Grad the other week, and it was the perfect half-awful movie. Terrific cast: Bledel and her face and crazy-huge-as-the-ocean blue eyes, Michael Keaton as her weird dad, Jane Lynch as her weird mom, Carol Burnett as the wacky grandma, with minor appearances from J.K. "Juno's dad" Simmons, Craig "Darryl from The Office" Robinson, and Fred Armisen.
But the movie as a whole? A mess. Script couldn't decide if it wanted to be college funny or family warm. All the quirky was for naught. Naught!
Her new one seems to have similar pain. Says a hed on a Gatehouse News Service story, "The only thing 'The Good Guy' is good at is being horrible." Adds the Boston Globe about this Wall Street-ish drama:
Presumably to shake things up, Beth is a conservationist. It's a line of work that rarely comes into play. She and Bobby never fight about the green industries he's lucratively betting against. She and Daniel never bond over the joys of composting. Although all those shots of her just sitting in Central Park or at her kitchen table suggest that a pitiful amount of imaginative screenwriting is being conserved.
The take then calls Bledel "emotionally monochromatic." And I know that's not true in real life. I see your true colors, Alexis! Let me help.
Sincerely [jointly signed],
The Committee for a Good But a Bit Complicated Patrick Cooper
and
The Committee for a Free Alexis Bledel (and also Free Dan Neil)
