Nine Reasons I'm Just Not That Into He's Just Not That Into You This Friday marks the release of He's Just Not That In To You, the über-chick-flick we've all been dreading waiting for. Produced by Drew Barrymore and starring everyone and their mom, the film allegedly dispenses some tough-love conventional wisdom about dudes, dating, monogamy and rejection in the digital age. But with humor! And bonus: Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, it's loosely based on a self-help book of the same name that was, in turn, based on an episode of Sex and the City. Below are nine reasons I'm just not that into this stupid excuse for a movie.

1) Did I mention this movie is based on a book that's based on a Sex and The City episode? What's next, a movie about the Funky Spunk dude? Sounds like a job for Rob Schneider.

2) I know! Let's take a gaggle of the sexiest, most beautiful actresses in Hollywood and get audiences to believe that they're total rejects who suck at life. That is some feel-good shit. How you gonna tell me Ginnifer Goodwin has trouble getting laid? With that sort of logic, what the hell hope do us normal people have then?

3) Drew Barrymore looks depressingly uncute in this. I look askance at any movie that succeeds in making the person whose picture appears next to the word "adorable" in the dictionary (I'm lookin' at you, Never Been Kissed) look like a mousy frump. It's bad for our collective self-image.

4) Why is Wilson Cruz being relegated to a supporting-supporting role as token gay? When will Ricky Vasquez get his due for god's sake? He needs a starring-role vehicle STAT.

5) Considering how packed this movie was with A-listers, there was little to no behind-the-scenes drama (Jennifer Connelly feuding with the other female leads over a Redbook cover? Yawn. Drew Barrymore dating one of her male co-stars for a hot second? Double yawn).

6) Note to the marketing department: Nothing makes a movie seem more dated than mentioning Myspace in the trailer. I understand there's a running gag in the movie about the endless varieties of communication devices that make getting dumped more humiliating and confusing than ever, but name-dropping an obsolete social networking site from the early aughts makes the movie seem even more culturally irrelevant than I already suspected it was.

7) Hasn't Jennifer Connelly's career tailspin plummeted to sufficient lows yet? It was a mere eight years ago that the bushy-browed thesp got an Oscar for her role in the critically lauded A Beautiful Mind. Things have taken quite a turn since then (my apologies to those who thought the remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still was in any way good), and it's straight depressing.

8) I just love shelling out twelve dollars to watch a movie that reinforces the misogynist conspiracy that women are either weak, desperate creatures slavering to pair up, reproduce and nest or hateful home-wrecking hellions bent on destroying men's lives.

9) What if my one and only perfect soul mate calls while I'm in the movie and I miss it and then I wind up alone forever? Because as we all know, being a spinster is a fate worse than death. But maybe I can write a tell-all book about how the movie based on the book based on the TV episode ruined my life, and then they'll make it into a movie and then I'll get rich! Then I can buy all the affection I want. I take it all back! I'm so going to see this movie!

11 Comments

February 2, 2009 1:54 PM
Rowena
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MySpace is obsolete? Tell that to the legions of 14-24 year olds who continue to log on. It may be second to facebook (with good reason), but I would hardly call it obsolete.

February 2, 2009 4:45 PM
Julia
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I dont' think that myspace is obselete, but mentioning it in a movie like it's cool and hip is just a bad idea. It dates the movie, and makes some of the jokes itself (about myspace) obsolete.

Plus, I don't know how many older people are on myspace, but the specific age range of these characters seem like some of them refer to it like it's "what the kids do now" which is also kind of weird.

February 2, 2009 9:45 PM
Adrianne*
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Oh geese.. i hope that our generation is not remembered by myspace. I agree putting it in a movie is a terrible idea and if anything just makes it more of a ridiculous fad, but then again they r bringing smoking is cool propaganda back in to movies too!?

February 3, 2009 4:38 PM
Smartbunny
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"He MySpaced me!" What does that even mean? No one says that. So not only is it a hack thing to talk about but they couldn't have consulted a 15-year old for the proper terminology?

February 8, 2009 12:49 AM
Just Browsing
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I think the correct terminology is "He messaged me on Myspace."
Totally agree on reason #8, and reason #9 is awesome. ;D

February 10, 2009 3:14 PM
Nikki
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I saw this movie this weekend and I'm not going to lie, I really loved it. Contrary to what the trailer implies, not all the women end up in relationships, but all the women end up happy. So maybe it is a cliched, silly premise... It was a chick-flick, feel-good movie and I enjoyed it.

February 10, 2009 5:19 PM
another Nikki
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replied to comment from Rowena

Thankyou Nikki for being honest. I may not go see it in theaters but I definitely plan on popping some popcorn & watching it over at a girl friend's house curled up on the couch in my sweats. You nailed it. It's a chick flick. They're all cliched & silly and they're all pretty darn predictable. But guess what, I'm a "chick" and I'll continue to watch them, however offensive it is to all the hard core feminists out there... sorry

June 15, 2009 3:33 PM
becca.elpy
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Blast, wish I'd seen this review before I rented this from iTunes. Didn't like it. Star-studded rom-coms rarely 'hit the spot' for me.

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January 6, 2010 3:02 PM
Laura R
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I saw this movie recently and I have to say that Jennifer Connelly's character is a shrill abd screechy shrew. The rest of it was OK, but her character was just awful.

February 28, 2012 1:33 AM
Richard
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Jim Let's not dcussis the next week anymore for fear of jinxing it Changing the handle slightly to acknowledge my love for Don Mattingly (from a baseball player-fan relationship standpoint, of course).

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