I want to enrich my cinema experience. I want to watch less bad, or mediocre movies. But the problem is, I actually like certain actors. So, when Netflix regurgitates something with a generic title like Players, I ignore it. Then I notice it stars Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin, Not Dead Yet), Damon Wayans Jr (Happy endings, let’s Be Cops), and Tom Ellis (Lucifer), and I really am genuinely supportive. The same thing happened with Dan Levy’s writer/directorial feature debut earlier this year. Normally, with a lesser known actor,I would have passed on Good Grief. Netflix keeps hiring actors I like, but giving them really mediocre films.
This is a romance that doesn’t want to play by the normal romcom rules, but totally does. It just does it in the sports world, where Gina Rodriguez is more like “one of the guys”, and enjoys banter with her friends (which includes Wayans Jr), and ends up by the end in a pretty stereotypical romcom scenario. It is so generic, but it is trying not to be. It’s like that kid who wears a shirt that says This Is My Halloween costume, and thinks he’s breaking the mold, until he sees someone else wearing it and realizes he got his shirt at Kohl’s, and everyone has the damn shirt. So, yeah, it’s a costume now.
I honestly don’t remember the audio description well enough to comment on it. The only reason to watch this are the stars, who are making the most out of nothing.It does have audio description, and I do remember it not being of the level that I wanted to put my head through a wall. Though, the movie was kinda doing that for me.
Final Grade: D+
