How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Good Movie
Review: Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey each played two great roles in this movie. It was a funny movie that women do sometimes do things to annoy their boyfriends with. The best part was when they went to the Knicks game and she wanted him to go and get her a drink with 20 sec left in the 4th quarter. You know she was doing it on purpose, but a guy wouldn't want to get up and get their date a drink in the final match up of two teams in the NBA.

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Summary: Not as predictable as you might think
Review: Sure, about three-quarters of the way through, it started to get predictable, but by that time you've laughed so much, you don't really care anymore.

I didn't really get this movie for any particular reason. I can't say I'm that big a fan of Matthew or Kate, as haven't really seen them in that many films (A Time To Kill & Gossip are the only ones that come to mind). Plus, I needed to get a third movie to get the good deal, and it was between this & 40 Days & 40 Nights. I've heard that's really bad, so I got this.

With Goldie Hawn for a mother, Kate is coming straight from comic stock, so it might have been disappointing if she didn't live up to expectations, but the girl is funny! From just her facial expressions & mannerisms, you'll be in fits. Personally, the defining moment from the whole film for me was when Kate's character Andie was sitting in her office, eating a burger, and she talks with her mouth completely PACKED full! It's the look on her face at the same time, and the fact you can't understand a word she says. I had to watch this little scene over & over, in fits of giggles the whole time.

The plot was surprisingly original for a rom-com/battle of the sexes movie. The formula was followed strictly, and I was under no illusion what the final outcome would be, but the best part of this movie was laughed at.

Guys, if you're easily scared, then I suggest you don't watch this movie. Andie has to make a guy date her, before she prepares to get him out of her life - in 10 days. To succeed she goes as far as taking him to a Celine Dion concert; gets him to get her a Coke in the last minutes of a (crucial?) Nicks game; destroys his poker game; on their SECOND date, brings over fluffy toys, pink toilet cover, a signed framed photo of her, a plant; takes him to a couples therapist after 7 days; pretends to be vegetarian after he makes a lamb dinner; cries that he called her fat; names a certain part of his anatomy by the oh-so-unappropriate name of Princess Sophia and many more disbelieving things.

Another highlight of the movie was their "fight" and changing to the lyrics to "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon. They absolutely butcher the song beyond belief.

Other stars include the lovely Adam Goldberg and Thomas Lennon - the latter is listed here, because it always bugs me where I know him from. He was in A Guy Thing too, but most notably, in FRIENDS!!! (You knew I was gonna say that, didn't you?) He was in The One In Vegas, the one who Joey thinks has the exact same hands as him.

This was a great movie and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and will definitely rewatch at some point. But if you don't mind, I'm going to go and watch the burger/mouthful scene again ...

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Summary: How to destroy two careers in an hour and a half
Review: I wonder if they'll wind up together at the end? Let me check my big book of already-done, formulaic plots...yup they will. How do I know? It might be the fact that I've seen this movie, or--closer to the truth--it could be that all movies that fall into this genre have the same basic plot, which then means they all have the same ending. The only question is how long these movies can get gullible people to believe that this movie just might end differently. But how could a movie make someone sad? We're trying to escape real life here and pretend that we can still all be princesses and live in fairy tales where relationship issues can be solved in thirty minutes with a last minute effort to stop a flight or chase down a taxi cab on a motorcycle (ahem, this movie)...oops, did I ruin it? Sorry if you people couldn't figure it out on your own.'

Kate Hudson (aka I ruin my career a little more with each new movie I make)

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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: The ever-adorable and delightfully gorgeous Hudson is Andie Anderson, a columnist for one of those women's magazines that offer all manner of good advice. In this case the magazine is called Composure and Andie writes the regular How To column. You know the sort of thing - How to dress to your body shape, How to lose 150kg in three weeks, How to have the ultimate orgasm...and so on and so on. But Andie wishes to be taken as a credible journalist and dreams of the day when she can write articles on politics or How to Bring Peace to Tajikistan, but her editor will have nothing of it, so the How To column continues focusing on relationships, fashion, glamour, and salacious gossip. When colleague and friend Michelle (Kathryn Hahn) suffers yet another mystifying break-up with her new boyfriend of only a week, Andie gets an idea for a new column. It will be a dating guide in reverse - a guide to all the things NOT to do if you want to keep your man and will be called How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. The catch is that she will experience this first hand. She will hook a guy at a bar, seduce him and once he's hooked, unleash every rotten girl-trick in the book to drive him away - all inside 10 days.

Meanwhile, advertising exec Benjamin Barry (Matthew McConaughey) is desperate to get appointed to lead the ad campaign for a new diamond promotion and will basically do anything to get the chance to make the pitch for the diamond campaign. Ever the ladies man, he makes the bold claim to colleagues that he could easily make a girl fall in love with him - inside 10 days, and they challenge him provided they can pick the target (I think you can see where this is heading). His boss agrees to the challenge and provided Ben can have a girl madly in love with him by the time of the big promotional party, the ad campaign is his.

What follows is a series of humorous scenes in which Andie and Ben hook up and she proceeds to drive him completely crazy by doing everything in her girl-power to make him dump her. Ben of course will suffer through anything and gleefully accepts all manner of horrible girl problems that Andie can throw at him. There is perfect chemistry between McConaughey and Hudson, and herein lies the strength of this film, because in a nutshell it adds precious little to the age-old "lets make a bet about love and hope the other side doesn't find out, but they do" routine. There are some genuinely funny moments - I can only imagine the pain of having a new girlfriend nickname your p**** 'Princess Sophia', or being forced to attend a chick-flick marathon at the local cinema, but it is the actions and the reactions of both McConaughey and Hudson to each other that many will find ultimately engaging.


Rating:
Summary: Really great movie
Review: How to lose a guy in 10 days is a great movie with a great story about Andie, Benjamin and their love. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a 'How-To-Girl' at a magazine and one day she has to make a story, How to lose aguy in 10 days. She will start dating a man and then drive him away, in 10 days, with things, that women usually do, that man don't like. Benjamin (Matthew McConaughey) works in advertising. One day he makes a bet with two of his co-workers. He will get the most important work, if he will bring a woman, which will be totally in love with him, to a party 10 days from that day. And his co-workers choose, which woman will that be. They, knowing what Andie is about to do, choose her, but do not tell Ben. So, the problem occurs in their relationship. One wants to make it last at least 10 days, but the other wants to end it before the 10 days are gone by. So through series of comic events the 10th day comes. So on the party, they both find out about another one's lying and they break up. But it wouldn't be a romantic comedy, if they wouldn't end up together.
How to lose a guy in 10 days is one of the most romantic comedies in my opinion. Also the actors are really good. I mean, Matthew is an ok actor, he can be funny from time to time. But Kate Hudson was the one that I really loved in that movie. She's a great actress. She is also really beautiful and charming and is just the right person for this movie. Besides that, the chemistry between then is just awesome.

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Summary: Funnny But Lacks Chemistry--
Review: I love the the humor in this movie-- I own the DVD and watch it often. I still laugh everytime I see Kate and Matthew come back from the Celine Dion concert. The jokes and the scenes in this movie are hiliarious!
But, this typical chick flick lacks is chemistry between Matthew and Kate.--You feel little to no connection in the film and after a while you wonder why-- the ended up together even after the weekend with Matt's parents.
Of course- it is part of the bet they made to go out and systmatically go out and destroy eachother's lives. The story is predictable and Matthew in my opinon is the actor that lights up the screen- really it's Hudson who fails to deliever.
The company should have kept Matthew and have dumped Hudson-- what this movie needed to recieve 5 stars is more chemistry. Rent this one-- be4 buying!!!

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Summary: Some Laughter If A Bit Contrived
Review: How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days certainly wins laughter points. Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey do compete with each other to satify altier motives. However their characters Andy and Bennie discover that they hae true feelings for each other.

The story does spell contrived in capital letters. Ten days just does not spell romance in a realistic world. However, the comic scenes do draw out much laughter especially when the shrink gets involved and when the couple implodes during a duet at the Ben's big business moment.

All in all this is a good movie as long as you don't take its noticeable faults so seriously.