The Usual Hollywood Attempt to Remould Men/Women

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2013)

Blown away how godawful this was after all the rave reviews and high rating. Sadly it's yet another Hollywood BS manifesto desperately trying to reverse sexual roles, making guys pathetic naive afraid little lapdogs having to request permission to breathe and women sexual predators of assumed greater worldly knowledge and maturity. They shout jump and the guy asks how high. Everything coming out of Hollywood that concerns relationships now is a slave to this toxic formula. I don't know if it's enjoyable/empowering for women but I don't see how it can be anything other than offensive and ridiculous to any straight guy. It's just transparent garbage that bears no reflection on the real world, though I'm sure it's how those churning out this garbage would just love to remould the real world. Shame cos clearly JGL and ZD are competent actors given a decent script and there was some real innovative ideas played out in this, and some great music to boot, but all just massively overshadowed beyond repair by this horrific story of this poor sad sap willingly being manipulated and treated like a piece of crap by this bizarre 2D controlling witch whose only driving force seemed to be to f#ck him up in the head for kicks. And anyone who's struggled out there trying to go from their plan B career to what they think they ought to be doing must've been mortified like I was at the 2 minute happy-dappy montage where he's turning himself out to job interviews. Yeah right like that's even gonna happen if you're saddled with a broken heart. I can only assume the screenwriter here has no actual real world experience of being a man, heterosexual relationships, or the 21st century job market. My god I thought movies like this were meant to entertain you, not leave you feeling like strangling kittens. This one should come with a health warning.