Daily Archives: February 3, 2015

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Alternative Views: If I Were You (2012)

Welcome to Alternative Views. In keeping with my semi-resolution to watch scripted content only if the story was about women, LBGT persons and/or persons of color, I began with this little critically-savaged gem.

If I were you

How savaged was it? Rex Reed called this “a hapless load of bunk” whose creators could “only be described as delusional.”  Since “they think they have made an actual movie, when nothing in it qualifies.” Reed sounds bitchier than usual, but that tone was actually matched by several other critics.

Don’t believe them. This film is FUN as hell. Continue reading