#overboard 2018

[in-love-with-movies]

Overboard (2018)

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i say unapologetically

[bitpsychic]

MAGDALENA MONTENEGRO: OVERBOARD (2018)  ➞ ICONS.

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If someone wrote a Reylo fic based on the story from the movie Overboard (especially the new one, with Anna Faris) I would literally die. I mean:

The apprentice of Snoke, Kylo Ren, wipes out in his tie fighter and loses his memory

Rey finds him and comes to collect him, telling everyone he's her husband because she needs a teacher or something

She tells him his name is Ben and gets him to help out around the Resistance base where everyone has been told to play along

Hux sees this as an opportunity for power and tells Snoke that Kylo is dead

Snoke laments the death of his apprentice, but accepts Hux as his second in command

Ben struggles at first, feeling like something is off about this life

But he inevitably falls in love and loves his new life, as unglamorous as it may be

And Rey falls in love too, though she tried to avoid it, because she had just been using him and exploiting his knowledge and power to help their cause

Everything is going well until... Snoke finds him

Ben finds out who he really is and remembers everything

He is angry at first and he goes with Snoke, much to Hux's annoyance

But he is unhappy in his life as part of the first order

Some quirks he had in his new life with Rey keep coming up and he can't suppress who he was when he was happy and with her

Rey realizes she made a mistake but she still loves him and decides to go to him

Ben decides to leave the first order too, and despite the danger, he abandons his leadership role and goes to her

They declare their love for each other and live happily ever after

I love fics where he is confused beyond belief because of memory loss

[queenklu]

With the deepest understanding that stills Do Not Do this scene Comedic Justice, you all need to watch Overboard (2018). It’s on Hulu. Do yourself a SOLID. 

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About the 2018 Overboard Remake

So, just got out of the theater after seeing the new remake of the film Overboard, and I have to say I was really pleased with it. Self-aware of it’s wacky, telenovela-esque story, with great humor, an adorable love story, and a wonderful message underneath it all.

The film shows a single mom juggling two jobs and three kids, all while going to nursing school so she can provide a better life for her daughters. Even while tricking the amnesiac rich boy into thinking they’re married, she’s shown as being protective of her children; being wary of leaving her ‘husband’ alone with her three daughters, even going so far as to make him sleep in the shed out back instead of in the house.

After moving in, despite his confusion and horror at being ‘a poor nobody’, the spoiled rich guy is shown to obviously care about his ‘daughters’. He teaches the youngest to ride a bike, goes to their sports games, makes them school lunches, cooks dinner, and is shown to be just as protective of them as their mom.

The film is as much a story about family as it is a Rom-Com. A recurring theme in the movie is how the guy is so clearly not the girls’ biological father. Explained away with the lie of having to use a sperm donor, it has no effect on just how much he and the girls come to love one another.

The guy says himself (while still suffering from amnesia) “They may not have come from me, but they are still my kids”. This is especially meaningful after seeing how some members of his real family are happier with him gone.

As someone who has more contact and a better relationship with my stepfather than my biological one, this line and others like it were one of the best things about the film. Family doesn’t always end with blood, but it doesn’t start there, either.

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overboard (2018): a review

i had high hopes for this movie. i loved the trailer, i'm a fan of eugenio durbez, and rom coms are fun! but this film is kind of a letdown.

spoilers ahead!

it's not bad, exactly, it just takes time to get good. the first half, really, is very cringe-worthy when you realize the circumstances of everything. true, they acknowledge that in the film - kate (anna faris) almost backs out of her little plan to trick leonardo (eugenio durbez) into thinking he's her husband, but she still goes through with it, and it can be uncomfortable to watch. some jokes are funny - the supporting cast really does the heavy lifting - but it's frustrating for the viewer to watch leo try to adjust to a life he doesn't know. he keeps saying how much he can feel that everything is wrong, and you really root for him to find out the truth at first. even the side-plot about his family is cringey too, as his sister is the first to see him in the hospital but doesn't claim him as her brother bc he's such a pain and she wants to inherit the family business. (she even conducts a plan to make it seem like he died and it's so bad, it really brings the film down.)

but as the characters begin to change, the film picks up. leo works even harder to be a good husband and father and kate grows smitten. (honestly, who wouldn't? durbez is kind of adorable in this movie.) there are several occasions where kate wants to confess, and it can cause some mixed feelings over if you want it to happen or not. but the truth does come out eventually - i'll leave the 'how' out of this as not to ruin the entire film - and it is for the best.

i can say that i enjoyed the end much more than the beginning. not in the sense that "oh yay, it's over" - it was just a fun, kind of old-school sort of ending. like a lot of rom-coms, one party is leaving for x reason and the other chases after them. usually it's the guy going after the girl, but i loved the genderswapped spin on that trope. and that scene itself was pretty funny - again, frustrating that leo hesitated to choose love over money, but still fun and ultimately satisfying when he does make his decision. even the credit scenes felt old-school, but i loved them!

overall, not a perfect film, not in the slightest. but i absolutely love seeing rom-coms made again, and i will certainly be supporting each and every one that is made from now on bc i just adore this genre so much.

(also, make more films with durbez as a romantic lead! he may be on the older side, but he's great. super funny and very, very sweet.)

7/10

[fredjreview]

Overboard (2018) ★★★★★★ 06/10 Director:         Rob Greenberg Writer:            Leslie Dixon, Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg Stars:             Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez

Eugenio Derbez sigue en su cruzada por conquistar el público anglo-latino de Hollywood que empezara en el 2013 con su éxito “No se aceptan devoluciones”. En este su tercer intento como productor y protagonista, juega nuevamente con la comedia bicultural, contando con un guion dotado de interesantes explosiones de humor, pero desgraciadamente no tan continuas como para darle un buen ritmo a la historia. Nuevamente Derbez encuentra una genial química con los actores infantiles, cosa que no sucede con su compañera Anna Faris; el resto del elenco del elenco (en su mayoría latino) se mueve como pez en el agua, gracias a que encajan perfectamente con el estilo humorístico que Derbez siempre ha cultivado desde sus inicios en la televisión manita.