We got the house ready for our guests for the day: Rebecca's Parents. Fresh from their trip to Spain, they wanted to call on us to check in and to pick up a plant that Rebecca has been taking good care of. A pub lunch was in order so we took a walk up and around the Harbourside to the Cottage Inn for some fish and chips. No one else could quite manage all their food so a lot of the scraps were pushed my way, which was fine by me.
Once our guests left Reb and I wanted to watch a 'no brain required' movie. Netflix are trying to rekindle the mid 2000's rom com vibe recently and A Family Affair can be loosely put into that pigeon hole. The problem with a lot of these recent rom coms is that they're too long, and this one really started to drag in the second half because there was no conflict or tension - it just kinda scuds over the finish line like a dopey, harmless cloud. Bizarrely though the film had a real problem with introducing moments and characters so it was tricky to gauge how invested into a scene you needed to be. It got a handful of chuckles but there was no magnetism between the leads (Zac Effron & Nicole Kidman) which makes it very hard to recommend to anyone. Hopefully we'll get a true noughties rom com one day... But then again maybe they were all terrible, at least some had fun though.
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