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This is not good, sappy and just boring

posted 8 years ago by gargantuaboy
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I'm watching this on some cable station called MOVIES. It's very sappy, the way Rob Lowe mopes around through the whole thing, I mean are you supposed to feel sorry for him? He's not a good actor and it really shows here, and Belushi on the other hand is doing some kind of character that might work in a beer commercial but over the course of a movie it just becomes annoying at best. I'm actually too bored to continue writing about something so dull. Goodnight.

[–] Pacer88 8 years ago

I absolutely love this movie!

[–] kelly-527 8 years ago

Yeah, I don't agree. In fact, I watched this in the theatre when it first came, and my husband and I were just dating. He would shake his head and laugh at the guys when they were being pigs. He said it was pretty spot on.

The acting is pretty cringe worthy from the two main MC, but I think the cliches are pretty spot on.

Two scenes stand out.

When she's packing up to move out, and he hands her the towel she made when she was a little girl and rips it apart. Ouch. The other is the scene when he's trying to casually make contact again. I swear I wanted to reach through the screen and swat him.

[–] mwmtampa 8 years ago

Spot on Kelly!

And the 3rd stand out scene is when he stalks her to the bar in the rain, and then steps inside. And looks like an utter fool totally drenched standing there staring at her like a lovesick puppy.

[–] weavermovies 8 years ago

I love this movie..... having said that..... this movie should be used as a primer in grade school to teach young boys how not to become the types of men portrayed by Rob Lowe and Jim Belushi.....

Believe me.....

I grew up to be that type.....

yes Kelly-527..... to use your words.....

it's "spot on".

[–] daughterofolaf 7 years ago

How was Dan a bad guy, in your opinion?

"Your petty vengeance fetish will have to do withOUT Mr. Groin!"

[–] ReturnOfWhiskey 7 years ago

And the 3rd stand out scene is when he stalks her to the bar in the rain, and then steps inside. And looks like an utter fool totally drenched standing there staring at her like a lovesick puppy.

Haha, I literally laughed out loud at that scene because of how pathetic he looked!

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[–] HowYaLikeDemApplesWill 7 years ago

Debbie: (returning to the barstool after calling Danny). Geez, that bathroom is so tiny.
Joan: Was he home?
Debbie: What?
Joan: When you called...was he home?
Debbie: (realizing the jig is up) No, but that's OK...it's sandwich night anyway.
Joan: (sarcastically) Sandwich night?
Debbie: Well, yeah! Two nights a week, I cook. Two nights a week, he cooks. Two nights we go out. And then there's...sandwich night.
Joan: You know, I bet your sex life is a thrill. Two nights a week, you're on top. Two nights a week, he's on top...so what is it you do on sandwich night?

Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

[–] Batty67 (358) 6 years ago

Disagree about not being good. I have hugely positive associations with this movie, which came out when I was in college and because my friends and I watched and quoted it all the time (still can quote lots of it).

But it IS sappy, carbon-dated to the 80s, and the acting and dialogue range from outstanding to cringe-worthy. Very uneven.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

Lessee . . . written by playwright David Mamet, based on his play Sexual Perversity In Chicago. Not for nothing, Mamet writes the best English-language dialogue in the known universe. When Tarantino, um . . . abuses himself, he visualizes Mamet pleasuring him. But the OP found it boring. The acting? Okay. I can see that. The script? You must find Shakespeare boring, and probably do. That pesky old wind passing over the top of your ‘bitty skull.

PS “carbon-dated to the 80s?! Your Honor, the Defense stipulates the movie is from the 1980.” And WHY is that a problem? Do we have a case of temporal chauvinism here? Are works from eras other than the contemporary somehow inferior? Shall we trash the works of Wagner, Michaelabgelo, Proust, Goethe, da Vinci? Prithee, I freaking DARE you, explain why. In detail.

I guess that means we should also trash the works of Einstein and Euripides. How about The Upanishads and The Bible?