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The Part Dane Cook was BORN to play

posted 15 years ago by jaysobe
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This was his perfect role, but theres a reason why this movie will never get its props. It is in the mold of the traditional intelligence insulting chick flick, except it calls out girls on their love of @ssholes. Girls dont like this, they maintain that they like being treated well but then they themselves treat the 'nice guys' like trash (as in the movie with jason briggs).

A chick flick that tells girls the truth...dangerous! better stick to the standard princess in training single girl working at a magazine fantasy crap.

And Im not a Dane Cook fan, far from it. But he was BRILLIANT in this movie.

[–] clarita2 15 years ago

I agree the movie and Dane Cook were fabulous!

[–] toofast-mv 15 years ago

Yea dane was at his best being an *beep*

[–] Iced-Peonies 15 years ago

Sorry, but LAME! I'm a *gasp* feminist and I loved this movie.

The pizzas shaped like crosses sealed the deal. Word.

[–] jaysobe 15 years ago

what does being a feminist have to do with anything? girls CAN like this movie, but they in general don't take criticism (read: humor) well. we can all laugh at the fat, stupid mall cop movie but no one can dare make fun of or point out hypocrisy in women.

I thought feminists don't like double standards?

[–] Iced-Peonies 15 years ago

Maybe you just run with humorless chicks. :)

[–] jaysobe 15 years ago

the pretty ones (guys and girls) always are. life aint fair :(

[–] Jon364 15 years ago

I enjoyed the movie, and the humour. I didn't enjoy it for the reason you said but it was definately realistic.

Nice guys finish last. Alot of girls can't make their mind up (especially the hot ones) and decide if they want an *beep* or not. The attraction is there with the *beep* but then they complain they get treated bad by him. The nice guys treat them well but there is no attraction. As soon as the nice guy hears the complaints about the *beep* he is in the friends zone and has no chance. The nice guy is torturing himself and he is powerless to stop it.

The scenes when Bigg's character kept being overly friendly, while Cook's character kept getting the phone calls summed it up.

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[–] mathmaniac 14 years ago

The scene where he's walking down the aisle of the church, smoking a cigarette, with Johnny Cash playing in the background - perfection!

[–] DavidStHubbinsUSA 13 years ago

^^^ Agreed.....

[–] TheCaliforniaOp (78) 2 years ago

I thought it was too bad that such a great moment was wasted in this movie. Because it really was just perfect; the lighting on the face, the focus, the Johnny Cash song, and he shrugged right into it.
Complete Mephistophelian vibe. So many plots, that would have been a great tense buildup to some incredible con or heist…something.

I’m not a Dane Cook fan, meaning the usual routine connected with him, but he disappeared into the role for a moment, and I thought:

“This could be one of those classic clips every one recognizes”

It took me by surprise in a movie that had me cringing at too many moments. The friend-zoning was a little bit too stalkerish for me.

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[–] VanHellion (611) 2 years ago

100% agree. He killed it in this role.