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I really wanted to like this movie but something was missing...

posted 14 years ago by illu2
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Damn! I watched this movie and really wanted to enjoy it but apart from a couple of funny bits, it just missed the mark completely.

Josh Meyers and Krysten Ritter were likeable enough, Krysten is gorgeous, but there was just no chemistry whatsoever between them. There was no emotion, and the movie jumped around all over the place. There was a good list of actors but I think they really struggled with a poor script, so I don't really blame them.

There were a few scenes with just dialogue and no background sound/music that seemed to go on way too long.
There were too many cliches.
The break up scene was awful.
The getting together rain scene was awful. The way the actors talked to each other - people just don't talk like that.

I honestly would have had more pleasure from the film if they had split up! Then the film would have had some balls and been more memorable.

There was potential in there somewhere, but maybe the film needed more work on the script, faster scenes/better editing, and a few more good jokes.

Maybe a different cut is needed?

Such a shame :(

[–] Room_On_Fire 13 years ago

Agreed. I don't think there is a different cut available but it is indeed needed to make this a better film. It was not gutwrenchingly terrible, just forgettable. I saw it a back in August or September and never thought about it again. It's not even worth mentioning within the leagues of lower-level somewhat-successful comedies like She's Out of My League or 40 Days & 40 Nights. I noticed all that you said, plus the gratuitous promotion of certain punk-pop bands where the band is seen playing so long, I tuned out and I forgot I was watching a movie. Is the producer also the manager of a bunch of groups that sound like MxPx and he's trying to do product placement? I felt as if I had zoned out because a music video came on TV, then I realized I'm supposed to be watching a comedy. Then they pumped it up over the dialogue plus party noise so I could barely hear the actors - almost like the opening scene of the Social Network.

The whole flick just felt like an extended episode of a sitcom. It would be over in like 10 minutes if they guy could find one single guy in L.A. who would say, "Just go down on her for a while and work the button till she says she wants you" and it would be over. It's not that hard. 90 minutes of a guy who apparently refuses to use Google. How he made it to 30 years old without this info is a damn mystery. But they wanted to be like The 40-Year-Old Virgin or something, with a bunch of people giving the lead bad romance tips leading to raunchy mishaps, and it failed. It's not funny or sexy. Stuff like that has actors that can deliver lines perfectly and are great at improvising when what was written in the script doesn't sound as funny in real life. Here, they must have been like, "Screw it. Let's just grab a random assortment of cheap actors who have no chemistry and don't all belong in the same movie, film them saying stuff and doing stuff that wouldn't happen and punctuate it with a 'race to the airport before she's gone, teary break-up-make-up in the rain.' They made fun of this ten years ago in Not Another Teen Movie, you say? Who cares. This is not even going into theaters and I get paid the same regardless of whether this is good or bad."

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