Thursday, February 14, 2013

Will Julianne Hough be able to act?


I am a big Julianne Hough fan. Her dancing was amazing, she's marvelously good-looking, she's likable, and fame doesn't seem to have affected her too much -- plus her mega-rich and decent-looking BF Ryan Seacrest seems to know what he's got and treats her right.

But the problem is, she's tried to branch out from the dancing base with mixed success.  Country singing didn't seem to work, even though she had good pipes and the sexiest video this side of Lorrie Morgan in a low-cut dress. It seemed, however, that the establishment didn't like a bright-smiled, long-legged hoofer trying to get into their business without paying the requisite honky-tonk dues.  So she has gone acting, starting from her foundation with "Footlose", still doing the dance and song thing with "Rock of Ages", and now this Valentine's Day goes for the romantic ring with "Safe Haven".

So there are two questions. 
A) Can she act?  B) Are established actors going to be miffed at her for getting in above the ground floor?

I don't know. The "Safe Haven" trailers look promising, and there are OBVIOUS comparisons to "The Notebook".  Unfortunately, because she's the lead here, I think if she falls flat and gets panned, it's going
to take her awhile to recover.

Well, I should point out she looked great at the premiere.  That's a start.

The 60-second Movie Review was fairly kind to it.

Rotten Tomatoes, however, was not.  There is, however, one of the more massive disparities between the Tomatometer and the audience "like" rating (70%) that this might still be a decent romantic movie.  Curious about the weird twist at the end that's mentioned in a couple reviews.









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