{"id":675,"date":"2009-01-28T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2011-11-09T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T23:44:27","slug":"mr-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-676 alignleft\" title=\"wrong-ellen-degeneres_l\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wrong-ellen-degeneres_l-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"wrong-ellen-degeneres_l\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wrong-ellen-degeneres_l-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/wrong-ellen-degeneres_l.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><span class=\"mceItemObject\"   classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/span>\n<mce:style><!  st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]>\n<mce:style><!   \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0in; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";} --><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><span class=\"postbody\">Of course it&#8217;s awful and nothing that happens is funny, except for the fact that Bill Pullman has his housekeeper&#8217;s Mexican 8 year old children order Ellen DeGeneres at gunpoint to marry him. Though it&#8217;s actually the idea that was amusing, not the execution. Here&#8217;s a thought though; While a movie, especially a PG-13 one, that turns the blank-from-hell genre into a romantic comedy can&#8217;t help but be confused, unpleasant, and kind of creepy, such as <em>Love Stinks<\/em>, why not turn it into a black comedy satire? <em>Mr. Wrong<\/em> doesn&#8217;t have the balls for this, but wouldn&#8217;t it be great if it turned out she <em>had<\/em> really imagined all of <\/span><span class=\"postbody\">Pullman<\/span><span class=\"postbody\">&#8216;s stalkerish behavior because of a <em>real<\/em> fear of intimacy? This has probably been done before in a thriller with a <em>Fight Club<\/em>y twist at the end, but I&#8217;m sure this is possible to do in a dark parody of this tired type of film.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course it&#8217;s awful and nothing that happens is funny, except for the fact that Bill Pullman has his housekeeper&#8217;s Mexican 8 year old children order Ellen DeGeneres at gunpoint to marry him. Though it&#8217;s actually the idea that was amusing, not the execution. Here&#8217;s a thought though; While a movie, especially a PG-13 one, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5188,236,105,3542,3519,425,1637,1862,2254,237,1107,3541,2308,3539,4600,3540,140,5189,262,3538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}