P.S. Jeff's Ass

[ladyjanelly]

So. Went with Kendra to see PS Jeff's Ass today.

All in all it was more of the chick-flick than I usually care to watch. A whole lot could have been cut out of that movie as far as I was concerned. 

Pretty much everything that happened somewhere other than Ireland.  It seemed like a long build-up to the part with Jeff on stage, and Jeff on a boat and Jeff eating spaghetti and Jeff buck naked and Jeff wrapped up in white sheets and Jeff's hands and Jeff's bracelets and Jeff carrying bales of hay.  

It really got me with the almost-Daniel thing near the end.  I was almost so very very very pissed.  And then running into Jeff and Jeff's dad at the very end was awesome.


I did like the shoes though.  Not that I'd wear such a thing, but they were very pretty and inventive and neat.

Comments

[l-vera01.livejournal.com]

Question - did Jeff get the girl?

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

In the end, it looked very probable.
Spoilers









She left Ireland after a one-night-stand with incredible chemistry, went home, kinda-tried out a thing with a loser named Daniel, but they discovered it was like kissing a sibling. She decided her mother deserved a trip to Ireland, and when they got there, Jeff was working for the people they were there to visit with. So...it looked really good for him there at the end. :)

[l-vera01.livejournal.com]

yay! It's been killing me trying to find out if he gets the girl or not. It was the make or break for watching for me (g)

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Since Jeff was my ONLY reason for watching, I'd have been pissed if the other guy got the girl or she didn't date again or whatever.

Jeff ftw.

[embroiderama]

Yes, I agree with all of that. I was getting really agitated enar the end when it looked like she was going to end up with Daniel because they had *no* chemistry, but that bales-of-hay Jeff at the end, with the killer smile, saved it.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

God, the thought of Jeff, all smelling like hay and sweat just....guh. I'm dead.

Dude, Kendra thought she was gonna have to take me out of the theatre. When the chick started talking to Daniel at the stadium I was all "Are you fucking kidding me?" at the screen in a theatre full of old ladies (okay, it was us two and about 8 old ladies, but still, not appropriate).

And during Jeff's post-shower bit, we squeezed hands so hard we both had finger-nail marks.

[yonihamagid.livejournal.com]

You are such a gay man.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

He's just such a manly man. Like--hairy-chested and broad-shouldered and tight-assed and stubbled and yeah...I'm totally a gay man. I'd peg that.

[yasmine32068.livejournal.com]

I loved P.S. I love you! It made me laugh. It made me cry! Oh yeah and I LOVED Jeff's tushy!!!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

They could have made Jeff's character more of a focus. I think there was sort of an emptiness for the movie to be about a love with a dead guy, and her relations with live people to be secondary for most of the movie.

For a chick flick, not too bad though. Jeff redeemed it.

[spinfrog.livejournal.com]

In the end, when they run into Jeff's father and the girl's mom stares at him, I totally freaked out and thought Jeff and the girl were brother and sister... heh

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Heh. Oh god. That would have been a completely different movie. :)

[elmathelas.livejournal.com]

I KNOW, though, I was like sonofabitch, is that Holly's dad?

[nova-berry.livejournal.com]

Hah! I was very MEH about the movie and REALLY weirded out by seeing JDM as a ... sexass? Like, he looked GREAT, REALLY, but my brain kept rejecting the idea of a sexy, less-than-bearded John Winchester who was not, in fact, John Winchester. But YES, he looked positively DELECTABLE!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Jeff is totally a sexass. OMG. Haulin' hay!

The accent let me non-john the mental image. The dubbed-in singing was bad though.

[wlma.livejournal.com]

I went with my daughter and her friend, who have no idea who JDM is, (except 'wasn't he on GA?'), and have NO idea I have this little obsession. My favourite JDM part - the smile on his face when







he helps rescue the girls from the lake.
(I feel better for being able to tell someone who would understand - and appreciate!)

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Duuuude. I loved that smile. I always love his smile.

[elmathelas.livejournal.com]

YES! YES! YES! It's all indulgent and fond but not condescending! OMG I would watch again just for that moment.

[elmathelas.livejournal.com]

In the book the long slow build up to her being interested in a man who isn't her husband makes more sense, because it's in book form, and there's a much richer story regarding her family (her dad and mom are still happily married, and the entire book takes place in Ireland, where Holly and her family are from-- there are certain aspects regarding class that got blotted out with the move to the fictional New York where you can be "poor" but live in a fabulous lower East Side apartment with period details. In the book there is no William, but the character of Daniel, the owner of a bar in the city she lives in, is a character who would have been exceptionally well played by JDM. They have no chemistry on her end, because she's still in love with Gerry, but they do almost get together towards the end of the year, then don't, after all.

I don't know why they had to make the Daniel character a nearly autistic charicature. He would have worked as well or better as a man her own age who had feelings for her that weren't returned and wound up being a moot point, in the end. Maybe they wanted to make sure that all teh romantic interest was on Jeff's character, like filmgoers are extra stupid and can't follow 2 possible plots at once.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

The book sounds more interesting than the movie. Daniel in the movie was a freak. like a "step away before you taste mace" freak.

I wish they'd either made William into Daniel or dropped the Daniel part of the storyline. If that makes sense. There didn't need to be 2 guys running around.

[tigriswolf]

He was ADORABLE.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

"should I just lick it off the counter?" Guh. I'd have had to say yes.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

I've lost loved ones suddenly and without warning, and none of my friends warned me this was a big death-fest movie. My friends hate me. So for me the movie was insanely emotionally wrenching. It was barely enjoyable it was so painful. I cried so much I felt like I wanted to throw up.

... however to make it up to me, my friends all watched old episodes of Dark Angel with me and we got drunk. So fun evening!

Jeff is awesome in the movie. I really didn't see the sexy Jeff appeal before this movie. I mean I thought he was handsome enough, but he plays the boys DAD. After PS: ILY though, he's totally hot. And I'm totally shallow. *g*

I really abhored Holly though. Whats-her-name has a really irritating voice, and played Holly a little too bitchy to be truly endearing. ... didn't stop me from crying like a baby though.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Dude. Your friends suck. I couldn't take my husband to it (not that it's his kind of movie anyway but he'd have gone if i'd asked) because his dad died of a brain tumor at that age.

Jeff was so damn sexy. And wow. Nice ass, Jeff.

Holly was annoying. All the "you're totally not 19" flashback scenes and yeah. bitchy.

So sorry you got bushwhacked by the movie. Smack your friends for me next time you see them.

[lomer.livejournal.com]

They didn't think about it at the time. They were surprised I didn't watch the preview. Apparently the preview makes it apparent that it's a "dealing with death, and everything sucks" movie. Jeff has so many movies coming out, that I can't keep track of what I've seen and what I haven't!

But yes, Jeff was incredibly sexy. Surprisingly sexy! And that accent... wow.

And despite identifying with Holly's situation and the lines she was given... Hilary Swank just irritates me onscreen. She's irritated me in everything I've seen her in except "Boys Don't Cry". And I totally didn't buy the 19 year old scene. I kinda wanted to throttle her. "If I see you again, it's fate!" Okay, that's just cheesy.

I'm not pissed at my friends. They watched Baby Jensen in Dark Angel with me and we did shots of Goldshlogger. I LOVE Goldshlogger (or however you spell it.) It was an alternative Supernatural evening. *g* Surprisingly sexy Jeff as an Irish guy, and baby Jensen playing the ever adorable baby Dean character - Alec. All we needed was a Jared movie, and it would have been perfect! (Unfortunately I don't love Jared enough to watch that Olsen twin movie or Gilmore Girls... I'm not sure I can sit through the Kincade movie either even though it features Jared in knitted hats.)

[motorwill.livejournal.com]

PS Jeff's Ass
LOL. IT's funny cuz it's true. I really am going to see every bit of screentime this guy pop ups in. I just...it sets off neurons that's been gathering dust all this time.

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Jeff's ass was one of the best movie-asses I've seen in a loooong time. Something about him just...yeah. sets off my appreciation for manly manly men. He's so gentle and warm and solid and Yeah.