The reviews for Cameron Crowe’s new film, Aloha, have not been…kind. It’s currently got a 12 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and critics have been calling the romantic comedy, which stars almost every likable actor in Hollywood (Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Bill Murray, Rachel McAdams), Crowe’s worst. Harsh.
The movie doesn’t open until Friday, but to entice viewers to buy tickets, Sony’s put the first eight minutes of the film on YouTube. Maybe they hope that people will love it so much, they’ll be crushing each other at the box office trying to get in. I like to imagine they’ll all be carrying boomboxes blasting “In Your Eyes,” too. Wait, wrong movie.
In case you haven’t heard of the film, here’s what Aloha is about, according to the YouTube description:
In Aloha, a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper) returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs – the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii – and reconnects with a long-ago love (Rachel McAdams) while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog (Emma Stone) assigned to him. From Academy Award®-winner Cameron Crowe, the writer-director behind such films as Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, Aloha also stars Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, and Alec Baldwin.
It sounds…interesting? They kind of lost me with space program, but anything that stars Emma Stone and Rachel McAdams can’t be all that bad, right?
Unfortunately, the bad reviews aren’t Aloha’s first problem. The movie’s been accused of “whitewashing” Hawaii’s culture and history by The Media Action Network for Asian Americans.
(Via E!)
