The Ugly Truth - Chick flick or comedy?
The Ugly Truth - Poster
So when I first started watching the trailer for The ugly Truth I was certain that it was going to be a comedy. I knew nothing of the film before I watched the trailer, and the poster makes the film look like something I would be into.
Then about half way throught the trailer I realized that I wasnt watching a trailer for a comedy flick, but rather a trailer for a romantic comedy. Damn, I was so ready for another knocked up.
So now I am stuck asking myself, will this romantic comedy be enough “comedy” for me to see it?
So I figured I would leave it up to you guys. What do you think, Comedy or Chick Flick?
I’m really rather tired of the moribund ideas expounded out of Descartes and the science/philosophers of his kind. Their theories are how we got some insightful ideas and methods but are taken by non-professionals out of context and imposed on society as fact. One of the central ideas is portrayed in the poster that complex processes can always be understood by breaking them down into smaller and smaller components. Love for a man means sex and for a woman it means romance. That’s drivel and I get tired of its perpetuation. If the storytellers are smart they throw a wrench into the common misperception in the story and prove that the perceived “truth” is just as much a foible as the other foibles that it portends to poke fun of. That’s when the story has the potential to draw me in and becomes a real comedy instead of a chick flick or a guy flick.
A man thinks with his dick and a woman thinks with her mind,,, the poster spells it all out for me,,,,
AVOID !!! THIS FILM AT ALL COSTS.,,,,,
Well, if you’re a believer of Freud, he theorizes that everything we do is driven, in some way, by our sexual desires. Men and women. Or if you listen to ANY female “psychologist,” everything has something to do with the size of your penis. Conveniently this automatically excludes all women from the same scrutiny.
Then of course women call all men pigs because they’ve been cheated on. Of course they conveniently leave out the little detail that the guys they pick are usually known to be womanizers to begin with, and how they enable these men by forgiving them each time they are caught cheating. Teaching them that they can get away with it.
I’m committed to my relationships, and most of the guys I’m friends with (I do not become friends with guys who fit in the category of being “pigs” when it comes to their relationships) are ready for commitment long before the girls they are interested are. Funny thing, all of the guys I know who are womanizers, meaning they WILL cheat on you if they date you, always get with the girls. While the “nice guys” I know tend to stay single for much longer periods. And these girls that date these womanizers always claim they are looking for a “nice guy.” Yet they simply consider the nice guys I know as “just friends.”
It’s all a bunch of boloney, women don’t mature mentally in terms of relationships until they are about 30. Before then, they have this highly romanticized concept of love in their head that seems to only get satisfied by the excitement they get from dating a “bad boy.” Which, of course, almost always leads to heartbreak.
I have never been into psychology, so I can’t speak on that. But I have noticed that you are right on about bad guys. They can always get the girl. And the girl will be miserable, saying they want a good guy but passing on the many good guys they meet because it is not “exciting” enough. It is kind of sad, I assume there is a lot of psychology involved, the way they grew up or the patterns that were set in their first couple of relationships.
To tie it all into movies, that is why I tend to dislike “Rom-com’s” The whole idea of the romantic comedy is silly. Things don’t usually happen that way, it is just fantasy. But my wife loves that stuff, so I do have to watch them. And I’ll probably see this one too. Since I’m probably going to be the only one here to see it, I’ll give you guys a brief review! Ha! :)
@Jon, But if you think about it, what movies aren’t “just fantasy?”
The thing I don’t like about romantic comedies is that they all follow the exact same formula. Guy goes after girl (or vice versa), but girl doesn’t want guy at first. Then they get together, but guy will then mess up big time, girl slaps guy and runs away crying (or the guy messed up before, but she only finds out half way through the movie). The guy works hard to prove to girl that he has changed. The girl gets with another guy, the guy gets the girl to change her mind at the very last moment, sometimes on her wedding day. She refuses. Then something happens at the very very last moment and she goes running back to him. The End.
That’s basically EVERY romantic comedy ever made with a very few exceptions.
Yes Stan, all movies are fantasy. But Rom-Coms tend to be shown in a realistic manner. As if it could happen to you. But life doesn’t usually work that way. I’m going to keep my daughter away from that stuff as long as I can, just to try and keep her grounded in reality when it comes to relationships.
@Ken J
Hit the nail right on the head. All rom-com’s are just like that. Still, there have been one or two that I have enjoyed. I liked that one with Dane Cook and Jessica Alba a couple of years back. Don’t remember what it was called, but it was enjoyable. And Paul Rudd has been in a couple of chick flicks. He is usually pretty funny regardless of genre.