Art of Seduction (2001)

So what else can you do when you're stuck on a plane for a combined total of over 48 hours? Watch movies of course! Oh and the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" quiz game was fun and time wasting / filling also. Enjoyed the Isaac Mizrahi celebrity interviews and the Eva Longoria interview was cute. The movie selection was mostly B grade but I managed to catch a few that were surprisingly OK... She's the Man, 2001Originally wrote this off as a dumb teen movie but I was desperate to fill time and pickings were slim. I was pleasantly surprised - both acting and storyline (while not completely original) were engaging and entertaining. Nice career choice for the main actress to transition from small to big screens. Amanda Bynes seems refreshingly natural and unpretentious - a better role model than some other teen actresses I could name... Rat Race, 2001Stellar US / UK ensemble cast. Can't believe I've never heard of this film! Laughed my ass off! (embarassing when you're wearing 'phones and your neighbours can't hear what you're laughing at!) Fauteuils d'Orchestre, 2006, France, Writer / Director Daniele ThompsonMain character is a bit too upbeat and cutesy wutesy to be real but OK as light entertainment. I won't even go into describing the flimsy storyline. PS: how come when I was in Paris I didn't end up meeting a bunch of interesting AND rich people AND end up with a cute guy? Oh yeah - I live in the REAL world not in a film - SNORT! Art of Seduction, 2005, [Korean title: Jakeob-ui jeongseok]2 players meet their match and can't outplay each other. OK light romantic comedy. Occasional fantasy sequences appear in both Korean films (see below). The Beast and the Beauty, 2005, Korea [Yasuwa minyeo] *not listed in RT movie selections but I'd make this a 7*tbc. Young guy has complex about his looks and risks losing his blind girlfriend when she gets her sight back because he can't face her. Happy as One, 2005, [German title: Komm Naeher] *not listed in RT movie selections but I'd make this an 8*If I had to choose this would be my favourite drama from this bunch of films. This is the airline's published synopsis [there's a slightly longer one at: http://www.german-cinema.de/app/filmarchive/film_view.php?film_id=1339]: [QUOTE] [color=wheat][size=2][i][font=Frutiger-LightItalic]Happy As One intertwines stories of people who come together in strange ways: a fragile woman meets a man whose gentleness she cannot fathom, a wife unintentionally forces her husband into passivity, and a mother and her teenage daughter fall in love with the same man.[/QUOTE] [/font][/i][/size][/color]