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Summary: Simply horrendous
Review: Is this film meant to be uplifting? You've got to be kidding. In what universe would it be considered acceptable for a successful woman to choose the puffy, lecherous commitmentphobe who beds her, doesn't call and humiliates her, over the loving, cute doctor who happens to be 20 years her junior? Is it considered to be "mature" to be with a man your age who neglects you and is incapable of forming a serious relationship? And oh, by the way, you met the old guy when he was dating YOUR DAUGHTER. Ecccchhh. And to nominate Diane Keaton for this role, which is basically a yuppie Annie Hall retread, for an Academy Award is simply a joke. See this movie at your peril.
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Summary: Overrated...BIG TIME!!!
Review: I desperately wanted to see "Something's Gotta Give" on the big screen over the holidays, but I never made it, and ended up waiting for the DVD. What a major over-hype by the critics: totally contrived and cliched, not the LEAST bit witty, and as much as I love Jack Nicholson, quite frankly he is WAY past his romantic-comedy days. There are a few (very few) funny scenes. Diane Keaton is quite good, as if she could ever turn in a lousy performance, but worthy of an Oscar nomination???? No way. Rent it, and you be the judge. In fact, the oddest thing about this movie is that the most believable acting in it comes from Keannu Reaves! This film will really make you wonder about professional movie reviewers.
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Summary: Not what I imagined!
Review: The story is good, but I feel that the acting was ... well, horrible! The acting was alright up to where Erica Barry falls apart because of Harry, but then it just fell apart. Renting this movie would be a lot better then buying it. Then if you like it well enough buy it!
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Summary: too long
Review: I thought the movie dragged on for way too long. Diane Keaton's crying scene was obnoxious and I couldn't wait for the movie to end.
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Summary: An INTELLIGENT romantic comedy - go figure!
Review: I'm only 28, and yet I still really enjoyed and appreciated this film. Why? Because it's the first romantic comedy I've seen in a long time that I didn't find to be a complete insult to my intelligence. On a surface level, this film is about an aging playboy who's spent his life chasing youth and beauty, who inadvertently falls for the middle-aged, successful yet lonely mother of his current trophy girlfriend. However, beyond that premise, this film has lots to say about intimacy, romance, loneliness and love that I think people of any age can relate to. The script isn't perfect, but it is genuinely clever, thoughtful, and touching. Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, both screen icons, give fantastic performances that carry the film. Diane Keaton is especially excellent: she has an amazing ability to display several complex emotions at once. All you need to do is look at her face to know exactly what her character is thinking and feeling. Overall, a smart and insightful comedy.
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Summary: 21st Century, Affair To Remember
Review: This is a great movie starring the notorious Jack Nicholson and hilarious Diane Keaton. The plot is simple and has a similar flair to An Affair To Remember (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr). Nicholson and Keaton are two older single socialites who try to avoid reality. Nicholson avoids it by dating younger women, and Keaton avoids it through writing plays. When Nicholson develops a heart condition, Keaton must tolerate taking care of him in her Hampton home. The two are oil and water, but they slowly begin to blend and find that they have more in common then they would ever admit. It's a cute movie about living in the moment. I'd recommend it to everyone! Absolutly FANTASTIC!!
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Summary: Poor script; Intense love
Review: I think the screenplay was poorly written. The character motivation was weak, and ends were not tied up. This is a screenplay that follows a Hollywood formula, but the choices made about why each event would happen are not credible; and one character, presented as a major one, is left out of the ending entirely. Example that gives no spoilers: Jack and Diane need to spend time together in order to fall in love. They aren't people who would spend time together, so, as the formula goes, the first 10 minutes set us up for Jack to be required to stay at Diane's house long enough for their attraction to develop. The motivation for his having to stay is so absurdly unrealistic--even by movie standards--that a second one is written into the script - equally not credible. When I first turned off the DVD, I thought it was horrid. But, I woke up the next morning thinking about it, about this love they felt. It took until the next day to get beyond the plot flaws, see that their feelings remained with me, and that I felt something. I liked what I felt, though it was bittersweet. The awakening of their love is what I felt; I know this feeling, and this film brought it back to me to the extent that I felt raw emotion. The Keanu character is unnecessary - as much as I liked the character and liked him in this film - and, as such, the script was unable to accomodate his presence. He was not only unnecessary, but contributed to at least one plot flaw: a woman, Diane, has her life in order, in an order she adopted, and hasn't dated men in awhile. Suddenly, she has two men (one quite young). This is farfetched. Thus, Keanu was used as a pawn, a device, to show Diane her feelings for Jack. Of course, many other--better--devices could have been chosen. As it is, Keanu is quite a good character - too good for the role of pawn. Therefore, he has a dichotomy that makes the whole element not work: we know enough about him to like him and be sympathetic toward him (he's written as nearly flawless in character, and a great guy too!), yet his purpose is plot-device. What do you do with a major character who is relegated to plot device? This film doesn't. It doesn't do anything with him. I found this a problem - I liked the guy. So, is he there because the director was uncertain of herself and put in a handsome young man? It plays that way. If he's there as the person he's presented to be, I'm guessing his pivotal moments are on the cutting room floor. So, the film follows the romantic comedy progression - all the twists occur when they "should," in a Hollywood film - but the twists, devices, and motivations are very weak. That said, the emotions opened to both Jack and Diane--who each hadn't felt them for differing reasons and time periods--work. I believe these two characters, and I believed in them. I loved their journeys of discovery of feeling. Diane Keaton - beautiful. Jack Nicholson - believable, and usually I don't care much for his all-too-similar performances. Keanu/Julian - what did he feel? Why single? Why many things? Too main of a character with too little going on - both too much and too little of the Julian character was given to us. And this is a 2-hour-long movie.
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Summary: Not considered Nicholson's best but still a feel good comedy
Review: Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves, a great cast but yet the movie seemed to fail, the plot was as usual 'nicholson always gets what he wants', Diane Keaton, a stuggling writer desperately seeking for romance, keanu, a doctor!!??, they can't put a guy who just came out of a matrix movie play a doctor, it all seemed to cheesy, don't get me wrong, i love this movie but the cast failed to make it a box office, golden globe winning, oscar winning, worldwide success. 6.5/10.
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Summary: LOVE and life's lessons about LOVE
Review: "Something's Gotta Give" is one of those funny movies that dares to delve into delicate relationships between men and women.
The older man and the younger chick-a-dee,
Older woman and the young hunk.
Truth be told, LOVE's a scary thing, especially since some of us can't live without it.
There's a moral to this story - - - and you have to read between the lines, but it goes something like this:
LOVE comes to those who seek it and one should not fear the hunt for LOVE. Sometimes you might get lust in it's place, but that's not such a bad thing.
LOVE is what makes the world go wrong and it knows no age boundaries. Don't be afraid to go for it!
Nicholson and Keaton are very good in this film, and there are some funny moments like when Jack inadvertently sees Keaton in the buff. He's shocked, she's embarrassed, but then they are able to move beyond this accident and find that they have alot in common after all.
He's a womanizer, and this is something that she's supposed to be able to handle with flair, but that's not what a real woman would do. Any woman who wants a serious long term relationship with a man would have stuck it out with Reeves...the young MD who is hot for Keaton's charactor.
He genuinely loved her, but she didn't feel so worthy...
I wish the movie would have ended differently, but that's Hollywood for ya.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This is a great movie. The cast of Diane Keaton and Jack Nickolson is wonderful. The movie is funny without being forced. The laughs come from your relationship with the characters and their experiences. You are never quite sure what will happen next. This is a movie that you will watch more than once.
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