All About Steve (2009)

Who payed the critics

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The film starts with a crossword puzzler who reads a lot and, also, talks a lot. Appearing maniac, she's always upbeat, decent and loves sharing information which is, to most people, irrelevant, nonsense, and useless.I think annoyance is the feeling everyone will have when watching the movie. This girl is paranoid, she can't shut her mouth up! But you gotta admit that she's very pure and smart. Because of what the cameraman tells her, she believes that he's sincere and keeps following him around.The story goes to an extreme when because of him, and one of his colleagues, the girl suffers from an accident. But from this moment, we've come to an awareness of how great this girl is. She deserves respect, not antipathy.This is a beautiful story, though I gotta admit the chance for her to find a boyfriend is very slim.Sandra Bullock is very clever, her action is always smooth as ever. Bradley Cooper is very handsome, ha ha.

I mean really! To give a razzie to Sandra Bullock for this role?!? It is a joke! I think someone in Hollywood wanted to give her a razzie and an Oscar in the same year. That is the reason she received a razzie for this role. I do not think she deserved it. I think it was all a stunt, very well organized. I have seen far worse acting in many far worse movies. As a matter of fact, excellent actors should act retards so they actually look as retards and idiots or mentally ill people if role requires it. Sandra Bullock is such an excellent actress, her Oscars and this role and many others confirm that.As far as this film goes, there is nothing really in it. I only watched it because I wanted to see why she received a razzie. So unless you want to watch it for the same reason, I would advise that you skip it.As far as razzie goes, Sandra keep it for your grand children! They will transfer it to the next generation: Hey you know, my grand mom received a razzie and an Oscar in the same year.

This movie is remarkable. Somehow it succeeds in effortlessly rendering surely one of the most likable screen actresses ever, the adorable Sandra Bullock, everyone's favourite girl next door (bar perhaps Jennifer Aniston), so totally unbearable that I doubt I'll ever be able to watch her in anything ever again. At least not without traumatic flashbacks to this dire drivel.Some reviews cautioned only to watch it if you're an avid Bullock fan. I would say, if you're a fan, please don't watch it – it could contaminate Sandra for you for ever.This excruciating excuse for a romcom is really one of the worst of the bunch – and believe me, I've seen some bad ones (The Holiday, anyone? I would rather barbecue my own eyeballs than sit through that again).Sandra was born to play kooky, quirky, off the wall. But here they throw everything they can into the mix, thinking a sheer quantity of oddities (for example, she's a horny cruciverbalist) will suffice instead of actually constructing a whole personality, even if it turns her into an implausibly contradictory bunch of irritating tics and tiresome traits.As for the plot, how anyone else she encounters could come to care about this deluded, obsessive individual and her ludicrous carnal quest is beyond me. It's meant to be funny that, throughout all her trials and tribulations, she clings onto the increasingly battered umbrella borrowed from the object of her lust, the eponymous Steve, like some demented Mary Poppins on acid. It's a mystery to me why someone along the way didn't bludgeon her to death with the blessed thing.Perennially in scarlet boots (Dorothy's ruby slippers, perhaps), our heroine is not a patch on that plucky wanderer but instead an infuriating blend of know-it-all verbal diarrhoea and shockingly poor impulse control. She ends up as pointless and troublesome as a fly trapped in the car with you on a hot summer's day.Her alleged erudition is also hard to credit. It seems to manifest itself in tormenting her long-suffering parents and colleagues with a torrent of facts that never seem to demonstrate anything at all insightful or interesting. She just spouts 'knowledge' like a brainwashed chimp without being able to distinguish the pertinent from the irrelevant. When she referred to 'a medical phenomena' that was the icing on the cake as far as poor characterisation went. A wordsmith would surely be able to tell singular from plural.What on earth possessed our beloved Sandra to take this part? At least Bradley Cooper and Thomas Haden Church's roles are better written and funnier and their situations more sympathetic.If you're tempted to keep watching, hoping that it will get better, please don't waste your time. It really doesn't. It really is that poor from start to finish.Except maybe for the horse incident in the wild west town.

This movie is one of the MORE INTELLIGENT ROMANTIC COMEDIES THAT DOES NOT TAKE ITSELF TOO SERIOUSLY. That conscious approach of the film is both risky and refreshing in my opinion. A lot of reviewers who gave this film a bad review point to the supposed lack of plot and the great annoyance they felt for the main character Mary. Mary's overbearing attitude plays a crucial role in effectively conveying the film's message which it narrates in the end, in a form of self reflection by the protagonist. The message is this.... Will Shortz, the creator of the New York Times crossword puzzles said that "we all have an inherent need to fill empty spaces" Mary realizes towards the end of the movie that the whole obsession with Steve is driven by this need to fill a void in her life, that she like many of us, refused to recognize. We fill those holes in our otherwise happy lives with different things like work, exercising, eating, and even a passionate albeit baseless belief of a strong romantic connection with someone. Eventually, Mary realized that this internal void need not be filled with the thought of one great love, like many of the rom com movies try to feed us, but rather by the many people we meet, the old and new friendships we make, and the many stumbles we'll have as we journey through life.