Chose to watch this one night when I couldn't decide what to watch and needed something quite easy. This movie is exactly what I expected to be and it left me with a good overall sensation. After the amazing Best Man Down movie I was looking forward to seeing this. Let me offer a question to the girls that enjoyed this film, what if you current or future significant other did the same thing that the lead male character in A Case of You to you? He's proved to be an actor and auteur. While this wasn't as good as that one this was still very enjoyable.
He states his love for her and confesses to using her Facebook profile to adjust his public persona. After his roommate Eliot suggests checking Birdie's profile, Sam decides to pretend that he shares the interests she lists on her profile. Example: Roommate Eliot, who masturbates to pictures of Martha Stewart and a contemporary Carrie Fischer! And that's a good thing because it will be entirely predictable, like comfort food. The movie needs much better writing. To know him is probably for some other movie, but he was a joy to see how dedicated he was to involve himself in all the hobbies and ambitions she has.
The movie is not out of this world and could be considered another monotonous love story by many but, if you have some free time on your hands, give it a watch! However, it is Long's character who is unlikable in the picture, one of the only movies next to his film Taking Chances a few years back that I recall not being fond of his character. It makes me appreciate how hard comedy is. You can sit there play games on your phone, have plenty of toilet breaks, read the Sunday paper back to back and you still won't miss a single piece of storyline. Which your brain will forget about after an hour of finishing the movie. They begin to fall in love, and Birdie accompanies Sam, Eliot, and Eliot's girlfriend, Ashley to a spiritual retreat where they sleep together for the first time.
They begin to dance together. First he decides to manipulate his dream girl Birdie who, by the way, is his dream girl based solely on her looks since he's never talked to her but only stared creepy and longingly at her over his daily coffee by memorizing her facebook. Tells the story of a young man who thinks he's met the girl of his dreams and attempts to court her by all interests and statuses from her Facebook page. The thing that makes A Case For You stand out is its indie quality charm. After Birdie is fired from her job, Sam decides to seek her out but first decides to become familiar with all her Facebook hobbies. In that way, he reasons, she'll be drawn to him.
As Sam blunders his way through classes, picking up approximately no new demonstrable skills and writing a brooding novel about his exploits much creepier than Facebook- stalking , the film coasts along with hardly any narrative tension. I loved it from the very first scene. And the surprise appearance of Ralphie from A Christmas Story! He's unwilling to really show the world who he is, you see, so he busies himself with guitar lessons, cooking classes and books he's never heard of. It is very relatable and enjoyable. I don't know the lead girl, Ms. This is co-written by Justin Long. He keeps Sam grounded, real and annoying at just the right moments.
Yes, it sounds more than a little creepy, but Long is charming and charismatic enough to keep us interested, and Sam's willingness to put himself into incredibly awkward situations in order to impress Birdie result in some humorous exchanges. I think the film is only helped by her feminine perspective. The message is too simple to guess, but heck we all have our Sams within us. The idea of a man using a woman's social networking profile a woman he just met, mind you to make an attempt to model himself after a man who likes the same music as she does, the same books, and the same activities so he can come to have a chance with her. I also very much enjoyed the random comedy of Vince Vaughn throughout the movie. He is smitten with the coffee shop girl Birdie Hazel Evan Rachel Wood. Let's accept that and move on.
The story that leads to and the climax itself it's kind of lightweight, more tension would have been appreciated to top the good start. It was kind of neat to discover Vince Vaughan appears in a very small supporting role as Long's agent. He's playing his try and true awkward uncomfortable character. It would have been better if one of them played the bigger character of the best friend. It's quaint now, of course, but it sparkles with a wit and romance that's largely missing from A Case Of You.
And in doing that Sam makes a fool of himself! The problem with most of this is that Sam is too much of a loser for us to have much sympathy for him. Not particularly memorable, but worth a date night. Personally I feel that many can connect with that lost and helpless feeling that Sam undergoes throughout the film until finally making it out and finding that, that makes one happy. Sam finally gets the opportunity to date Birdie but finds that he is becoming someone who he really isn't and becomes panic-struck with what is happening. No laugh out loud moments that I can remember. There are also a few laugh-out-loud moments that come courtesy of Keir O'Donnell as Sam's roommate and Peter Dinklage as a flamboyantly sassy barista. But you can't account for attraction.
I am pleased to say that it was exactly that. While, as I said before, it won't blow you away it does really grow on you. Changing my opinion early on, we realize that many people do not have a lot of confidence in finding love and dating in general. I liked this movie and first thought Justin Long and Rachel Wood were very mismatched. I am a huge Justin Long fan so he was my immediate draw to this movie.