How to Bore a Guy in 2 Hours

Rating: 4/10 (24 January 2003)

***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** This movie is your basic romantic comedy storyline that has been done over and over again. It's the simple guy makes a bet that he can get the girl to fall in love with him so he can get a promotion, while girl does everything to turn a guy away in 10 days for her "how to" column. Guess what, they fall in love and a big fight breaks out (while trying to sing a duet...which is not funny at all), but she does the right thing by changing her article to a story about how "he's the only guy she's ever fallen for", blah blah blah. Anyways this movie is pretty bad, and here's why. The couple of Mc Conaughey and Hudson doesn't work that well (you have to have this to have a good romantic comedy). It's not particularly bad, but you see as acting not very believeable. Everytime I see Kate Hudson, I'm thinking this girl looks like she's 12. Also this movie portrays men as very ignorant, and easy to manipulate.Every guy in this movie is mindless and easily swayed by a woman. True maybe, but I don't know any movies where anything like that is implied about women.The story is generally boring and drags on, and drags on.There isn't anything you haven't seen before.As far as the good things, (and they are few) I must start with Adam Goldberg and Thomas Lennon. I am huge fans of both, and they have some good one liners as Mc Conaughey's friends that do just enough to keep you awake. Shalom Harlow, enough said.Also some of the stuff Kate Hudson does is pretty funny (especially the Celine Dion concert and family album), but any real guy would have sent her packing if not before then, by then for sure. Kate Husdon was ok (I'm not a fan at all), I mean I was expecting horrible, but she had moments. None of this quite saves the movie, however.
Anyway, I did take one thing away from this movie. How long will women shell out 8 bucks to see the same stories over and over again, with two different leads. Well I guess as long as they do, people will write the same screenplays and keep getting rich.