Anyone But You
Kind of odd in hindsight that this has been marketed as some horny sex comedy considering its heart seems to be much closer to the source material than I expected, and I ended up getting sucked into this movie as one of the better <PERSON> adaptations I can think of in recent history. <PERSON> has always been dirty, and Anyone But You rides that line between banter and bawdiness well.
It helps that I have a sort of connection to Much Ado About Nothing, as it was the performance I saw at the Globe theater the one time I attended the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as a teen, and I since read it a couple times and performed scenes from it with my school drama group. Not that I remember much about the actual plot today, but watching Anyone But You triggered some forgotten part of me where I spent hours reading <PERSON> plays and reimagining them in different genres, especially when the movie kept dropping quotes from the play like chapter markers.
Two other things:
- I didn't know <PERSON> was in this before I started it, and when he showed up I went, "Oh hey, the guy from F/X is here!"
- <PERSON> = <PERSON> + <PERSON> 292