DON JON, the first film authored by the hyphenate Joseph Gordon-Levitt

porn = chick-flicks seems kind of like a lazy and inapt comparison too. I've never heard of women binging on chick-flicks or compulsively clicking one rom com clip after another for hours.

Maybe "shopping" would be a better stereotypical female activity to compare.

i think they're more comparable in damage to IRL expectations, not hours invested.

Actors who direct get more praise than they deserve because they know what a camera is and how to look good in front of it.

I wanted to like it, and ScarJo finally looks alive on screen, and it'ss 90 minutes, but it devolves into a familiar Hollywood yarn about A Man Who Can’t Love. "Why watch porn when you can have the real thing?" "What can you get from porn that you don’t get from sex?”

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"Why drink Dr. Pepper when you can have the real thing?"

Julianne Moore kinda wandered in from the non-didactic, screwball comedy version (the widow stuff aside) that i would rather have seen.

also the repeated shot of him walking into the gym was nice. Confessions needed a better payoff tho.

chick-flicks seems kind of like a lazy and inapt comparison too. I've never heard of women binging on chick-flicks or compulsively clicking one rom com clip after another for hours.

you have never heard of girl weekends, where they watch 3 or 4 in a row. ;) (ok maybe they'll just watch a zillion episodes of Girls... or Friends.)

i thought Julianne Moore was funny on a meta-level (Boogie Nights, and more specifically The Kids Are Alright)
like she's the old woman who knows about TRUE SEX
i kinda disliked she had this trauma though. also no one is truely communicating, and there are not enough snappy dialogues. (maybe, none)

i apologize for using the word old there, but it was in the spirit of the douchebags in the movie

Julianne Moore is very slightly older than I am, so I'm theoretically fine with her being his sexual savior, but it didn't work

I didn't really think JGL was gay until he cast Julianne Moore as the ideal sex partner.

can't get over this quote from eric h.

Thought this was all over the map - apparently the entire plot takes place in the final 15 minutes. Also, inverting the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope to a Manic Damaged Dream Older Woman trope is still a trope.

Didn't dislike it, but felt like it needed far more of an edge to it.

this film was directed like a car commercial

not nearly that good

has some truly awful buzzwordy filler dialogue scenes, oh u don't know abt SWIFFERS or TIVO??

This had its charms but I won't defend anything people have criticized up thread. StillAdvance wrote, for a film objecting to overt female sexualisation, its constantly poring over scarlet johannsen's body

I think this was an intentional and rather subtle way to connect her to...let's call it the porn-industrial-complex...that self-serving "one-sided" or instrumentalist view of relationships (porn vs romance movies and both against "real" intimacy). what's interesting about all that is that it suggests that porn is simply the logical end point of her worldview and even the (supplemental, excluded) thing that made him seem like the perfect guy! so long as he kept it hidden.

Finally watched this. Far more enjoyable (and less homophobic) than Shame, but much of this ground was already covered in a far more probing and challenging (and less cutesy) manner 40 years prior in Carnal Knowledge.

It was fun to see Tony Danza and Glenne Headly again, though. And JGL clearly devoted a lot of time towards developing a gym bod for this film, as he never missed an opportunity to show it off (not a complaint).

Not sure which JGL thread this should go in, but ... not the prettiest of women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPWs1QkK9k8