This week our T&T specialist Amanda tackles the real-life-lovebirds love story Going the Distance.
thesubstream: Hey, what are you doing?
Amanda: Nothing… watching videos of Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing guitar.
tss: Is he any good?
A: No, but he's… he's charming so it doesn't really matter.
tss: OK. So, you want to talk about Going the Distance? What's it about?
A: Oh… (sighs audibly) a love story. (Another sigh) A love story… across the country.
tss: Yeah?
A: Yeah. Drew Barrymore and Justin Long.
tss: They fall in love? She has to go across the country? She's a travelling saleswoman?
A: No, she's only in New York on an internship for the summer, so she has to go back to finish school in San Francisco.
tss: Internship? Isn't she like 35 years old?
A: Her life went off track. She followed another guy across the country for his job and now she's starting over.
tss: Ooooh. Complicated.
A: Yeah. They meet at the bar and they know they're both really cool for each other because they play old video games, do the pot and drink beer, and then they fall in love. So then she's like "Don't fall in love with me because I'm leaving in six weeks" and he's all "Yeah well fine I have commitment problems anyways" but then they fall in love. He runs into the airport, and its really romantic, so then they become long distance relationship people.
tss: That's cool.
A: Yeah.
tss: So then the movie is them… chatting on MSN Messenger?
A: Kind of, but it's entertaining. It's funny.
tss: Do you think its better when the two people in the movie who are in love, when the two actors are also in love in real life like Drew Barrymore and Justin Long?
A: Definitely. Oh yeah.
tss: How come?
A: Well, it doesn't seem as fake!
tss: Do you think there should be a little guy, for the people that don't read People magazine, a guy that comes out and says "Attention: just so you know the love actors are also in real love".
A: Yeah! Because Dad didn't even get it. I told him after the movie and he was like "ooooh".
tss: But what about if they break up? Who's going to want to rent a DVD about people in love when you know they've already broke up? Won't it seem more fake?
A: No.
tss: OK then. What was the best part?
A: Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day were really funny.
tss: What was the worst part?
A: Um… (sighs) well the worst part was having to watch them have phone sex while sitting next to Dad.
tss: Gross.
A: Yeah, gross.
tss: Are you excited to see Easy A at the film festival?
A: Yeah, really excited.
tss: Great, talk to you then. Thanks.
A: Bye.
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