The Movie that Gets Love Right

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2014)

I gave this interesting and funny satire an 8 rather than a 10 because it was a little too repetitious and dragged out a single theme a little too long. I'm not quite sure if those are even the real reasons that the movie did not feel like it had enough dramatic excitement to it.
However, perhaps, this movie did not need any false dramatic excitement added to it. Love and sex relationships are not really very dramatic. They're just pretty basic calculations. Either you and your partners personal desires to maintain your personal habits (e.g. Don Jon's desire to continue to clean his own house conflicting with Barbara Sugarman's demand that a housecleaner do it; Don Jon's continued desire for porn versus Sugarman's demand that he be abstinent of porn) exceed your mutual desire for sex, or they don't.
What I love about this movie: it did NOT make porn addiction seem like the most evil habit in the world. Yes, it shows how it could inhibit one's life, somewhat. But this movie was anything but preachy. It did NOT preach that those who watch a lot of porn have completely shallow relationships - sexual or otherwise - with other people.
The movie also got it right, showing the insanity of the cult of catholicism with its meaningless rituals designed only to rob stupid people of their money and make churches rich.
JGL's acting was deceptively subtle: designed to appear over-the-top 1- dimensional: a man concerned only about scoring with women. But the dialog was witty and detailed.