Mediocre movie. See the mediocre trailer here.
Here, Mark Ruffalo moves into an apartment previously inhabited by Reese Witherspoon. Reese's spirit haunts the crap out of him. Jon Heder is a psychic who tries to help Mark.
I love Reese, she's been one of my girls since Election. I like Ruffalo since Eternal Sunshine, where we see a lot of him in underwear. I think Jon Heder's Napoleon Dynamite was one of the funniest characters ever. Even so, Just Like Heaven just didn't work. It couldn't. The premise was all bogus. The movie was bogus.
Now to our gay movie review. Ivana Milicevic (that's her on the right) plays Ruffalo's hot neighbor. She is hot indeed. In one scene, she is all over Ruffalo on the couch and she wonders what is wrong with the single guys in San Francisco. Seriously, bitch needs a clue. She says that whenever she sees a handsome guy in San Francisco, it turns out it's really a lesbian. It is not clear to me whether her problem with San Francisco guys is really positive or negative for the gays. In cases like these, I would normally go for a positive light (when in doubt I'm trying to stay positive), but in this case I'm going negative because we had another suggestion the movie was not good for the gays.
Early in the movie, when Mark Ruffalo is looking for an apartment, his real estate agent tells him that the couple who lives in the place they are about to visit are always in Palm Springs (that's gay enough, right?). Once Ruffalo and the realtor are inside the house, Mark Ruffalo stares at the butt of two or more of those male Roman statues and he kinda of nods in disapproval and decides not to give the place a try. Like renting a gay apartment is out of the question. Whatever Mark.
I was a bit mad at that scene and I was actually even more upset that everything was only very thinly suggested, almost like the type of veiled homophobia in the Dodge Caliber ad. There is no hard evidence that homophobia was at play in either the realtor scene or the hot Ivana scene, mentioned above.
Sadly, I suspect the type of homophobia displayed by Mark's character in the realtor scene is quite common. You don't need to explain why you are not renting or buying or hiring, you can just find some excuse to mask your real prejudices.
A San Francisco movie without gays is just sad. To me it's like an African movie without black people, or an Israeli movie without Jews.
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