Down with Love
is a move with Renee Zellweger. I am NOT recommending this movie!
Actually, I enjoyed it for the first 2/3 or so of the film, and then it took, in my view, a turn for the worse.
Anyway, I liked the first part of the film, but I need to warn you to take this report with a grain of salt. The film is hopelessly cutesy... campy even... as much focused on a send-up of sixties style, as it is on its Romantic Comedy story line.
The truth is I will watch Renee Zellweger peel an orange. So that is probably the biggest reason I liked the movie to a certain extent.
I won't give out spoilers. The screenwriters already spoiled the plot, so why should I kick a dead horse?
Here is what I want to mention. The movie has something in common with "What Women Want" and "Something's Got To Give." In all 3 movies, an independent woman with a successful career develops an attraction to a playboy kind of guy. You know, what they call a "player" nowadays. Or, as this movie has it: "A man's man, ladies' man, man about town."
Such story lines long appeared in movies. In the old days, the guy fell in love and settled down and they lived happily ever after. But he wasn't required to apologize for the errors of his ways. In these three films, he is indeed required to apologize for being such a male chauvinist pig. And, somehow, the way in which this is done rings false to me.
Maybe it rings right to a lot of people. I don't know.
What interests me about it is that the alpha male is still held out to be the prize for a woman to land... it's just that when she catches him he has to say he's sorry.
Alpha males do get caught and fall in love and settle down. I don't question that. It's the way the apologizing is shown that falls flat to me.
Jack Nicholson, in "Something Has To Give," apologizes to an astounding number of women, individually seeking them out, just to make amends, like it was part of a Womanizer's 12 step program.
Well, maybe some repentant player has sincerely done such a thing, but I had a lot of trouble suspending my disbelief.
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Actually, I enjoyed it for the first 2/3 or so of the film, and then it took, in my view, a turn for the worse.
Anyway, I liked the first part of the film, but I need to warn you to take this report with a grain of salt. The film is hopelessly cutesy... campy even... as much focused on a send-up of sixties style, as it is on its Romantic Comedy story line.
The truth is I will watch Renee Zellweger peel an orange. So that is probably the biggest reason I liked the movie to a certain extent.
I won't give out spoilers. The screenwriters already spoiled the plot, so why should I kick a dead horse?
Here is what I want to mention. The movie has something in common with "What Women Want" and "Something's Got To Give." In all 3 movies, an independent woman with a successful career develops an attraction to a playboy kind of guy. You know, what they call a "player" nowadays. Or, as this movie has it: "A man's man, ladies' man, man about town."
Such story lines long appeared in movies. In the old days, the guy fell in love and settled down and they lived happily ever after. But he wasn't required to apologize for the errors of his ways. In these three films, he is indeed required to apologize for being such a male chauvinist pig. And, somehow, the way in which this is done rings false to me.
Maybe it rings right to a lot of people. I don't know.
What interests me about it is that the alpha male is still held out to be the prize for a woman to land... it's just that when she catches him he has to say he's sorry.
Alpha males do get caught and fall in love and settle down. I don't question that. It's the way the apologizing is shown that falls flat to me.
Jack Nicholson, in "Something Has To Give," apologizes to an astounding number of women, individually seeking them out, just to make amends, like it was part of a Womanizer's 12 step program.
Well, maybe some repentant player has sincerely done such a thing, but I had a lot of trouble suspending my disbelief.
See info on Down With Love at:
http://www.ez-entertainment.net/zoneseye/downwithloveview.htm