5 reasons why you want to see Someone Great with friends
High time for a movie night with friends. Staying in is the new going out on weekends after all. And I now have a great excuse for it – I'm just going with the times. Someone Great comes out on April 19 on Netflix and this is the new movie you want to watch with your friends. With lots of popcorn, and yes, also a lot of wine. Here are 5 reasons why you also want a movie night with wine and friends (definitely a golden combination) and why Someone Great is the movie you should watch.
1. Bro’s before ho’s, sisters before misters… That’s true of course, but as we get older, everyone tends to move more towards the house-kids-pets and less towards the every-night-party-with-friends. The message of Someone Great is: friends support you through thick and thin. Now, your movie night doesn’t have to be that dramatic and heavy, but we should remind ourselves of that more often.
2. Something different than the standard romcom. Okay, Someone Great technically falls into that genre, but it has a slightly different formula: main character Jenny (Gina Rodriguez, from Jane The Virgin ) takes a job in San Francisco, but her nine-year relationship doesn’t want to go along. Result: end of the relationship. Her two best friends take her on an unforgettable trip to New York as a comfort, which seems to me personally one of the best remedies. Against everything actually. Paris always a good idea? Well, New York too. Which brings me to my next point.
3. A movie set in New York always triggers me personally to travel to NYC as well. I don’t know what it is, but that city really has something magical. Every series or movie with even one shot of the skyline is immediately 3-0 in my favor. And just imagine: a week in The Big Apple with your best friends, who wouldn’t want that? I was there a few years ago with my best friend and I can definitely recommend it. In fact, I’m going to text her right now that we need to go again. See: it triggers.
4. Also sometimes nice: ZERO effort needed to look presentable. Your man is out the door, you’re not getting off the couch. In other words: sweatpants on, snacking until you can’t anymore and the makeup stays untouched. The latter is also beneficial if, like me, you cry at about every movie at the end (or in the middle, and in some even at the beginning). No raccoon eyes from the mascara.
5. Big plus of movie night vs. club night: no lines for the toilets, you know for sure that there are only people you like, shameless gossiping, talking about absolutely nothing and it’s also better for your wallet. And a movie about exes and how to get over them probably leads to recalling your most scandalous exes. At least, that’s a guarantee for hilarity with my friends. I also have to admit that I haven’t always had the best taste (unfortunately, you only see that in hindsight).
Convinced or not quite yet? Check out the trailer below. Or put on ‘New York’ by Alicia Keys, that always does me good personally. When I think about it: just do both. Concrete jungle where dreams are made oooooof. I just thought of a bonus reason number 6: at home you can sing along shamelessly as much as you want. All together. In canon. Take solos, whatever you want. Hear it for New York, New York, New Yooork.
Written by: Wieke Veenboer
