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

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