It's Possible That My Favorite Thing...

About the trailer for How Do You Know is finding out that Herc got out of the security business and made it into the major leagues down the road in Washington, DC:



That said, this looks reasonably charming, but I'm somewhat annoyed that this is a movie that purports to be about a woman who questions the whole Girl Life Plan of finding a dude and popping out some kids, but that is actually about the way that she ends up doing the first half of that equation. I'll also be curious to see if the fact that Witherspoon's character is a pro softball player actually matters in the movie, perhaps in drawing her closer to Owen Wilson's character or something, instead of simply being the quirky profession she is assigned to because they didn't want to make her a journalist or a lawyer or something generic that indicates that she's sharp. I don't necessarily love movies that try so hard to be unique that they tip over into a murk of quirk, but I don't like movies that try to be unique and are deeply, depressingly, obviously conventional anyway either.