What Women Want

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Summary: [e-mail]
Review: This is a movie that has to do with sensitivity , communication , and how one man had a serreal experience to really hear the truth of how women respond to him and others .
I found this movie has made me want to listen more and become more aware of the feelings of others .
Mel was given a gift to hear womens thoughts and feelings and he exploted this gift but later used it to fine tune his own life as to how he related to women .
It is a good film that I enjoyed too much to measure but I also saw much of myself as related to fine tuning my own feelings . The real truth is we all can use that golden rule thing from first grade and treat others as we would want to be treated .
We do not live in a perfect world but this movie suggest we all have that gift when we use it we can improve our lives by the joy that is to be experienced as we tune in and listen to others .
People are our mirrows and we will most often be treated as we treat others .
I think this movie should be required by any firm or organization who have the need to employee better listening skills .
John Evers

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Summary: I did watch it with my wife... she hated it!
Review: A wretched romantic comedy in which Mel Gibson can suddenly hear women's thoughts, and changes from a big sexist jerk into a cuddly, sensitive sweetie-pie. It's not so much the premise that [stinks], but rather the script and its muddled, uninspired execution. It's actually kind of surprising that a female-led film production could have taken such a simplistic, one-dimensional view of the subject. But, gosh, isn't Mel adorable with those cute baby blues?

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Summary: What Women Want
Review: This was advertised as a romantic comedy. It is a comedy but the romance is simply another point in the movie. The real focus is about Mel Gibson's character learning to appreciate women. The ending was rather abrupt and therefore weak, but it's a good movie. It's funny and worth watching.

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Summary: The qualities of "What Women Want"
Review: The good:
-Being able to read the minds of women(as a guy)
-Lots of women

The bad:
-Not enough sex scenes
-A couple of weird plot connections

The strange:
-Ever wish you could read women's minds?

The awards for:
-Worst chick-Marshall's(Gibson) daughter, Erin(Marshall's assistant)
-Best chick-Marisa Tomei

The overall:
-This is a great guide for getting to know a woman better(i.e. if you can read their mind)

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Summary: Good Enough...
Review: This is a good movie including the cast: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feurstein, Lauren Holly, and Alan Alda. Only, one problem, was Mel Gibsons's character gay, because he wore panty hose, and a brassiere. I give it a **** (4 out of 5).

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Summary: What Women Want
Review: I am a huge Mel Gibson fan so maybe, just maybe my review might be a little biased. I love just watching him, hearing his accent and watching the little comedy moves he puts into most of his movies.

I loved the whole concept of this movie. It reminds me of the saying "You might not really want what you wish for..so be careful". I believe this is true in this movie.

The movie starts out with a guy who all men look up to. He has no emotional connection to any woman that he meets. He says all the right things and does everything right that the woman wants. He basically gets her in bed and never calls again moving on to that next conquest.

He is an advertiser and loses a major promotion to a woman because his thinking is out of date and does not appeal to the higher demographics (females-imagine that). One night he says "What do women want?" Guess what? The next morning he can read their thoughts. At first it appears the newfound gift will put him in the insane assylum. Then in a turn of events he decides to use that gift to sabatoge the woman who got "his" job.

The movie played out to be very funny and in my opinion the responses and thoughts he heard were realistic. Without ruining the movie for you this newfound gift helps change his perspective and puts him closer to the human race.

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Summary: What Men Get
Review: I have a confession to make. I am a dyed in the wool Mel Gibson fan, and I have been since Mad Max. Okay, despite hating most mainstream movies with everything from Adam Sandler to Joel Schumacher making me nauseous beyond compare, I like movies like this. However, I usually make an effort to see most Gibson movies, with the Lethal Weapon series being at the top of the heap. So my natural aversion to the so-called 'chick flick' kicked it when my wife suggested we watch 'What Women Want' on pay per view. This is a good movie.

Nick Marshall (Gibson) is an misogynist advertising executive at Sloan-Curtis, the women he works with despise him for it, and who finds himself turned down for the top marketing job at his firm when it's given to Darcy McGuire (Helen Hunt...okay, okay, I like her, too!), who is everything to advertising that Nick isn't. And now she has the job that he feels he should have had. And when she announces that the company is missing out on billions of dollars of advertising revenue from women, Nick decides to prove to her that he knows what women want. He does this by waxing his legs, wearing nylons, wearing nail polish in one of the funniest scenes as he all but kills himself in the process. The waxing agony leads to accident that causes him to fall into the bathtub and electrocutes himself with a hair dryer. Being electrocuted in Chicago gives misogynist advertising executives receptive telepathy.

He can hear what women are thinking and this unnerves him. In fact it scares the hell out of him. If the strangers on the way to work was bad, he just isn't prepared for the barrage of hatred from his female coworkers. He goes to see Bette Midler who plays a marriage councillor, who also hates him. He lays it out for her, he knows what women are thinking, then proves it. She explains that he has a gift, and if he knows what women want, he can rule. He begins to play a game- learning how and what women think and using it to get the better of them. All of them, including his estranged daughter. Effortlessly, by listening to their thoughts then formulating his responses based on that, he quickly becomes their best friend, confident and go-to man for advice. He also begins undercutting Darcy's position with their boss. He also notices Erin, an intern who feels that no one notices her and wonders if anyone would notice if she just killed herself.

Things start to fall apart for Nick when he realizes that he cares for Darcy, becomes closer with his daughter and even ingratiates himself to most of the female staff at Sloan-Curtis, even Erin. Nick wants to succeed and get the job that Darcy has, but can't change the fact that he's falling for her big time. She's sweet, honest, down to earth- all the things he hates in women, and she's hooked him. Despite being selfishly motivated, Marshall gets more than he bargained for. 'What Women Want' is hilarious, but it's also got some messages that it subtly gets across. Maybe if we said good-bye collectively to the games and [stuff] we play between each other, then perhaps we could get down to what's really important.

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Summary: rent if you're bored and have seen everything else
Review: The premise of this movie is very good - Mel Gibson, after a freak accident, can "hear" what women are thinking. However, the director should have given a little thought to what men want.

Mel can read the thoughts of all women and the woman he choses is....HELEN HUNT? Not to bash Helen Hunt too much, but she is neither a particularly good actress nor particularly attractive. Her popularity in Hollywood can only be explained by one thing - she seems to be the only actress who can play a neurotic woman. And that wasn't called for in this flick.

Let's see: the characters in the movie have no depth, the ending is quite frankly pathetic; the movie is entirely too long and unfortunately feels predictable. If you buy this movie before seeing it first, you are a fool.

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Summary: Fabulous!
Review: Okay, I admit it, I bought this just because it had Mel Gibson in it. But it was great! I thought the plot was totally orginial, no one has done anything like it. And it was funny without trying to hard and it had drama without making you weepy. I really enjoyed it. Just to brief you, it is about a guy named Nick Marshall who is in advertising. He is a real ladies man. Then one day he gets an electric shock after falling in the bath tub with a blow dryer and the morning after he discovers that he can read women's thoughts. I highly recommeded this. Its a very good date movie.

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Summary: women actually want this?
Review: Apparently women want boring predictable films with cardboard stereoyped characters wherein the women is able to reform the handsome, fun, yet roguish male. I am guessing the film was made by cynical old men attempting to appeal to the middle age female demographic.