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Summary: How to Bore An Audience in 10 Days
Review: Then is the most uneven movie that I have ever seen. The plot starts out with both individuals having an agenda for meeting each other. One who wants a client account and the other wanted to have journalistic freedom to write the kind of stories she always wanted to. There was no chemistry between Matthew and Kate. Despite the fact the movie keeps pushing it. The story was so unlikely that by the end of the movie I didn't care about what happen to either character. Get the Wedding Planner instead.
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Summary: Cute, just for me!
Review: The humor was appreciated by myself. I'm a stickler for corny romantic comedies, such as this. Above the beautiful yellow gown, and the attempts to let a guy go, I had fun watching this movie. Young adults and women will love it, and they men might laugh a bit too.
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Summary: How to lose the audience in just over 10 minutes...
Review: In the late 80's , after MYSTIC PIZZA, I had the pleasure of working with Director Don Petrie on an episode of TV's THE EQUALIZER. Don was awesome, this movie however is not. I could not get through more than 30 minutes. Other than the fact that the film is shot in NYC, I could find anything good about this movie to continue watching it. Kate Hudson is completely overrated, almost talentless. She's a young version of Goldie Hawn, her real Mom, but somehow missing a chromosome. Know what I mean? The premise... a "serious" journalist that works for a "Cosmo" like magazine (why does she even work there?) sets out to date a guy and write an article abut it. "Doing all the things that men hate" so he will want to dump her. I vaguely remember from the trailer: TAMPON humor... gee what man doesn't like those? <GASP>. Without even seeing the entire film, you know Hudson is going to fall for MM. SURPRISE! I can only speculate that the two did not have ANY chemistry onscreen at all. Perhaps the film may have been better in the hands of a female director, but let's just say that whomever directed this mess would have failed. Someone should have lost this movie. PS-- If you do see this shipwreck, notice the cutesy 60's style musical score behind mostly all the dialogue. Didn't notice how annoying it was until now huh?
...drove me crazy.
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Summary: Ok- forced
Review: This was flat for me- the two leads just tried too hard with too thin material and it did not work. PASS See Kate instead in 200 Cigarettes and see Matthew in A Time to Kill. Pass on The Wedding Planner too- Jennifer Lopez is no comedian.
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Summary: !!!
Review: A good film, even though the cast is average.
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Summary: I LOVED this movie..
Review: This is a great movie...Yes, it's a chick-flick, so of course you know how it's going to end...BUT it's hilarious! Kate & Matthew look great together. I love the storyline and I love all of the horrible, silly things Kate's character does to Matthew's. This movie is a great laugh...I definitely recommend it!
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Summary: I love me some Matty!!!!!
Review: LOL, now I am not usually the one who enjoys these predictable love stories, but How To Lose A Guy was pretty cool. Matt M is hot and will always be hot. He and Kate Hudson made a cute onscreen couple. LOL, I'm a woman, but the stuff she did drove ME crazy!!! LOL The only thing about the story is the end...which like most romantic comedies is predictable, but the buildup is fun to watch. Pick this one up.
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Summary: Bad movie...
Review: (It would be 1 1/2 stars). Someone told my mother this was funny, so about 8 of us PAID MONEY to see it in the theatre. The characters were really shallow, and deserved each other...how is this romantic? It's as if there were a horrible arranged marriage, and then people did everything they could to make the life of the other person miserable.
The one great moment in the film is when Kate Hudson shows up in that beautiful yellow dress, if I were thousands of dollars richer, I would've loved it to be my prom dress...
Now more bad stuff, so Kate Hudson's character ends up losing the bet or whatever, and really drunkenly embarrasses herself. What really bothered me is the focus that the movie spent on her job and her career, that is why she is doing all this... then she leaves her job and gets an interview in DC for a job she's really always wanted ...gets stopped by our hero on a motorcycle who says 'hey babe, I kinda liked you, despite the fact that neither I (nor the audience) knows the real you, what's say you blow off the interview and get a job in New York so then you can jump on my bike and we'll ride off into the sunset. (Hello! Obviousman says that if it were that easy to just get a job in New York, she would have done so, rather than work at that trashy fashion magazine, but its time to end the movie and women's jobs aren't important anyway, or that's the current lesson in romantic comedies these days...) The other reason that this movie got 1 1/2 stars is that it still managed to be better than Kate and Leopold, (which another reviewer mentioned the similiarity to as well). Movies like these give not just chick films, but women in general a bad name, I mean jeez...let's just go rent Matrix 3 or something.
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Summary: How to annoy a guy over the course of 112 minutes
Review: It's my own fault that I had higher expectations of this film, but I'm guessing that this movie was not exactly made for guys like me anyway. The acting is ok, Matthew McConaughey's character Ben and Kate Hudson's Andie really just have to act and react. The dialog doesn't matter. Kate Hudson's character always has the upperhand, which is fine for a while, but after an hour it gets tiring. She completely invades every aspect of Ben's life; we never even see Andie's world besides her two friends and workplace. So while both characters have a similar agenda, there is a complete imbalance of upperhandedness, and this to me is the film's greatest shortcoming. He puts up with all her attempts in 'losing him', but all this only produces frustration in Andie - and fuels her to do crazier things. As a viewer you're dying to see her fall on her face just once. But that's wishful thinking. Ben's resilience to Andie's antics barely entertains me, and Andie's total lack of shame does not endear her to me. Sure they both look great, and Hudson positively beams when she smiles, but man, 112 minutes is a long time to endure this game. I can imagine some people thinking this movie is great. Girl Power and all. I don't know. But I think we can agree the movie was conceived as a vehicle for Kate Hudson's rise to stardom. This movie reminds me a bit of WHAT WOMEN WANT (with Mel Gibson) for a variety of reasons but notably because it was written & produced by women - which in the male-dominated movie world is a much needed perspective - but Nancy Myers (the producer/director of What Women Want) is definitely a lot smarter than the 'brains' behind How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days. You only have to watch the DVD extras to see proof of this. We meet two of the producers, both of whom have obviously had facelifts. I'm serious. It's creepy. They talk about the material like it's Shakespeare. Then there is the director Donald Petrie, who totally lacks any charisma whatsoever. The MAKING OF with him is so cheaply done it's probably funnier to watch than most of the movie. While he sits there chatting, a TV monitor behind him fires off stills from the film, and a female office clerk (with her back to the camera) stares at a static PC screen while biting her nails and shaking her head a lot. She does this for the entire duration of the interviews with Petrie. Oh, and did I mention the background music that accompanies the extras? It's department store music. Or elevator music. Which ever one you hate more. I didn't bother with the commentary. Donald is a bore. There are no outtakes, which is by now unusual for a comedy. The deleted scenes are actually good, some honest emotions are shown by Andie and we get a few more calm private moments between the two leads. Look, it started off ok. It felt like it would be harmless fluffy romantic comedy, but the romance lasted about 10 minutes. I can sum up my review with this observation of director Petrie's reason he became interested in directing the movie. He says it was because he found out that Kate Hudson was attached to it. Aha. So basically, if the movie does well at the box office, then it will launch Hudson's AND his career. Sorry Petrie, but that's not good enough for me.
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Summary: HOW TO SCARE AN AUDIENCE AWAY IN 5 MINUTES
Review: HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS (Paramount) should be retitled: How To Scare an Audience Away in Five Minutes. Somehow Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey survived this painfully unfunny fable about a couple with opposing hidden agendas. Life is short enough. Don't waste it on bad movies.
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