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Midnight in Paris - Really?

The following should be noted before continuing:  I love Woody Allen.  I love that he made a movie in Paris.  I liked all the cameos in the movie.  I wanted to like it so much, I saw it in the theater twice.

Watching Midnight in Paris the second time through was painful.  All of the cameo scenes are fun to watch (Adrian Brody was incredible!), but I thought the two main characters were some of the worst characters ever.  Rachel McAdams obviously dislikes Owen Wilson from the first second they are on screen together, their relationship is completely unbelievable.  All of the scenes with them together are completely flat.  The movie gave us no reason to believe that at some point they ever even liked each other, let alone continuing the relationship to the point that they’re engaged.

Even the scenes where Owen Wilson is in a different era, I found him boring. The other people on screen were always the one’s shinning and you could almost forget you were watching a movie about this really boring writer.  And then I would be dragged back to a present day scene and want to rip my hair out at how unbelievable that part of the movie was.  At no point in the movie did I believe that Owen Wilson’s character was capable of saying anything interesting, let alone writing an entire book someone would want to read.

In conclusion I can’t believe that this movie was nominated for an Oscar. (And Beginners wasn’t!!  A crime, I say!)