Up In The Air - We’ve gone all conceptual on this one!
Okay so Up In The Air may not be a conventional love triangle but in all rights this triangle is just as intriguing and devastating! George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man more in love with Air Miles than finding any love himself.
That is until he finds his match in Vera Farmiga’s travelling business woman, every bit the equal narcissist as Bingham. There is a twist towards the end of the film, we’ll be damned if we were to spoil it, but you cannot help but feel sorry for Bingham’s aimless ways that are eerily similar to Clooney’s own bachelorhood.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Another quartet in this film where Javier Bardem has to choose between Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall and Penelope Cruz, a lineup where you would be hard pushed to mark a decision!
Things are made a little easier by the unhinged nature of Penelop Cruz’s bunny boiler muse but you cannot help but feel as if Bardem’s character has done pretty well for himself in this pack!
What follows is sex, tested friendships and straying bullets in a tale that will make any man think twice before playing off three strong willed women!
It’s Complicated
Another entry from Meryl Streep (is she in danger of being pigeon holed as an aging maneater?) we see her torn between her smart mouther ex-husband (Alec Baldwin) and a mild mannered architect (Steve Martin).
To pile on the danger signs Baldwin’s character has remarried, trading Streep in for a younger model. Not quite a relationship model to take a lead from as we are left wondering whether Streep is being used, using or in fact both!
Bridget Jones’s Diary
In the adaptation of Helen Fielding’s blockbuster book the triangle is clear cut between womanising publisher Daniel Cleaver played by English ‘Everyman’ Hugh Grant and Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy - a painfully blatant call back to his Pride and Prejudice days.
Jones has to make the age old decision between the bad and the good! At least in this triangle we get to see the two male parties fight it out in traditional British style (read: bad punch up with questionable kicks).
New Moon is out on DVD now.