Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Sorry Everyone- I just realized I never published this, and it’s been sitting in the draft box for four weeks!
I think it’s pretty telling when you go to see a movie on it’s opening weekend, and the theater is less then half full. Ghosts of Girlfriends past totally reminded me of a movie you catch on TBS or USA, but you don’t actually go to the theater to see. 50 first dates is like this, and Sweet Home Alabama- both movies that are fun to watch, but you wouldn’t necessarily pay 12 dollars to see once. On that note, I’m going to start this review off with the negatives, since I got so much flack last time I did a review and ended with the bad. First of all the main character is a total ass- there’s just no other word for it, he’s a total ass and then he ends up with this perfectly charming and fabulous girlfriend in the end (sorry spoiler, but really it’s so obvious in the entire movie). Do I think this happens in real life? A player magically transforms into the worlds most perfect boyfriend? Of course not! So it was really far fetched. The second part that was hard for me was, again, the main character is so utterly disgusting a human being that you can’t stand him for the first quarter of the movie- then the rest of the movie is spent trying to redeem him, so you’ll think he deserves the lead female character. What are we, fools? and can you tell I can’t remember any of the characters names- this is how forgettable the movie is.
OK, now for the good- the movie has some very cute points and great supporting cast members. It’s funny, and once you get into the storyline, you genuinely root for the main character to essentially “get the girl.” Completely sucked into the romance aspect of it- and I almost had a little tear at the end. The ghost from his past girlfriends is uproariously funny- especially loved the flashbacks to the eighties and on. This is probably a great movie for someone dating a total loser, or the perennial cheater- or anyone who still believes there’s redemption in a cheater- but can be skipped, until it comes to tv, for the rest of us.
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The ONLY reason I want to see this movie is for Jennifer Garner, but i’m just going to wait till I can get it on Netflix.
By Kim on 05.31.09 8:09 pm | Permalink
I just wrote a blog post about this on my own blog, and since it annoyed me so much, I’m just going to copy and paste what I wrote:
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
That movie irritated me too. I mean, it had a cute concept initially, but it turned into 1 long run-on sex joke. It was just so trashy. And totally written by a man, everything was so insolent and arrogant. I know his character was supposed to be a man whore, but even when he had supposedly changed it was like “just let me talk and don’t interrupt and after 5 minutes I’ll have convinced you that you need to be with me because I’m awesome.” Dude, in real life the woman might forgive you…but trust me, she’ll be the one doing the talking for 5 minutes. And once it is out of her system, then she’ll be ready to put the whole thing behind her. And supposedly there were these hundreds of women he had slept with that were all upset that he broke up with them…dude, in real life if a woman is going to have sex with a stranger, she knows what she is getting into, and she isn’t going to claim she’s fallen in love during a 82 second-interlude. Women who are into one-night stands or quickies are just as likely to shove off afterwards as any man is, and aren’t going to be crying that they were “left” when they were just as into personal gratification themselves. Sheesh.
What is up with him punching a marine? And the marine gets knocked out cold after one punch to the face? Yeah right. And later the marine doesn’t even have a black eye? Stupid.
And Matthew McConaghey and Jennifer Garner are just getting too old to play those kind of roles….they’re both around 40 years….but all the other girls and guys were in the 25-33 years range. And the difference shows! Jennifer Garner had bags under her eyes in every scene she was in, making her already-too-small eyes just look even more squinty and piggish, and Matthew? Oh my gosh, don’t get me started. He might be tan and muscular, but his mouth—his mouth! He talks crooked and has some weird lip/speech impediment stuff. Why I have never noticed this before? Seriously, if he wasn’t buff I think everyone would wonder if he had language impediments.
By Amy on 05.31.09 8:40 pm | Permalink
oh yeah, and I want to add that the first ghost (the same actress/girl who got the bunny hired into the sorority house in House Bunny)totally stole the show. Her character was way more developed personality-wise than anyone else’s. She’s the only thing worth watching in the movie.
By Amy on 05.31.09 8:42 pm | Permalink
I hated everything about this movie!
♥ Jen
By Jen on 06.01.09 12:03 pm | Permalink
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