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not enough Frances!
I saw this movie opening night. I had allready read about 3 reviews from different newspapers, and none of them were too kind. I hate to admit this, but I truly am the type of guy that waits to get a general concensus from all different reviews before I go and see a movie. If the concensus agrees that it's the biggest bomb out there, then I'm renting a movie that night. You get the idea. But, what happens when the concensus shows mixed reviews all across the boards?? I always look at the 2 main stars. Nicholson and Keaton. I mean how bad could it really be. If only I had stuck to my own rule with this, the epitomy of an abysmal movie. Jack has played this part so many times, he could do it in his sleep, which in many scenes was exactly how I felt about the performance coming from this 3 time Oscar winner! Dianne Keaton is real easy to sum up. Annie Hall 26 years later. Only, Jack is no Woody Allen, and the director Nancy Meyers isn't even in the same class with the powerhouse cast that she managed to suck in to this awful mess. What was with that ridiculously over the top 15 minute crying garbage that Keaton was going through. I get that the point was to be over the top, but she fell so hard for a guy that she had known for all of 3 or 4 days. and now she's having a meltdown of near epic proportions over the guy. I know that with this movie, the press and even the stars were hyping the point that finally Jack will get a leading lady thats a bit closer to his age. I've got no problem with that if in fact Jack and Dianne had anything rezembling any kind of chemistry, but maybe I was in the bathroom during the "chemisty" part? Then theres' Keanu, who I won't even waste my time or the readers time by putting down on paper what I think about him. Ok, I'll say one thing. I'd rather see a foreigner get any of the roles that you get in any movie that you do. Here's why. I'd acually prefer to read those hideous subtitles, rather than listen to you read your lines as if you're reading them off cue cards. Gutwrenching. There was one really good thing about this film, but she wasn't around long enough. Frances Mcdormand. She's one of the best in the biz and she should actually have 2 oscars as opposed to the just one for Fargo. Mississippi Burning anyone?:) She was the brief life of the party for SGG, but just as soon as she appeared, she was gone just as quickly and with her she took the life, the heart, the pulse and the fun out of what could have been a great movie instead of a wake up call for 2 ageing actors.

GREAT COMMENTARY FROM NICHOLSON
The best thing about the digital version of SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE is the exceptional commentary with Jack Nicholson and filmmaker Nancy Meyers. I know of no other record of Nicholson speaking so openly about his acting choices. There are tantalizing references to deleted scenes not included as extras on this disc. A fun and funny mature romantic comedy that will satisfy and delight.

An insult
Come on ladies. Are we really as lame as this? Yeah, it annoys me that old guys can date young girls and it's harder for us older women to get dates. (I have to admit though it didn't annoy me when I was younger and knew I could date anyone from 25 up to - my limit then - 50). That doesn't mean I don't need a movie to have something to make it worth seeing. I have about as much contempt for this as I did for "First Wives Club" which was basically about female stalkers.

But this is pathetic! I kept waiting for these "smart" lines some people wrote about. Could someone post an example of one please? I'd like to know what others consider so "smart". The only line that made me laugh came from Nicholson: "Now who'd have thought that would be WORSE news."

Nancy Meyers caters to female resentments in a way that infuriates me. We women are not so stupid. Or maybe we are. And maybe THAT'S what really annoys.

This is a movie that would call Michael Douglas and Zeta-Jones a bad thing, but do an Oprah "You go girl" for Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher. In fact, it pretty much does exactly that (and with Keanu Reeves - who should have stayed in the Matrix - of all people). The old saying is "what's good for the goose is good for the gander", but "what's good for the gander is also good for the goose". The sexual politics of this one just don't hold up! And why lecture anyway?

Why even bother to be negative about who other people date at all, or their ages? What business is it of ours? Resentment doesn't replace humor. I'm not paying for a movie ticket to have my resentment massaged.

But the worst part is it isn't funny OR believable. If you think Keaton's plays would even get looking room on Broadway, you need to get out more (especially to the theater). Why is she so rich? Unless she got - one female advantage - a good divorce settlement from her husband, now remarrying a younger woman - a BAD thing.

She would NOT make that money from that kind of writing. Unless she wrote weak comedies like this for us supposedly weak-willed disgruntled women. It works for Nancy Meyers. I'll tell you what. I was mature enough to make my own sexual decisions at 20 and I'm still mature enough to make my own sexual decisions at 46.

And that pathetic crying scene! I felt utterly and completely sorry for Diane Keaton for having to do that. Couldn't anyone in editing see it went on way too long? And over what? A one night fling? From "Annie Hall" to this?

But why did half the reviews in the press say it was great to see her and then go on to ask why the cameraman made her look so bad? That's how a woman of that age looks, and Keaton looks better than most of us will.

This particular mature woman does NOT like having smoke blown up her ... well you know, and particularly not by ingratiating, pedestrian, inconsistent garbage like this.

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