Chick-Flick, Yet Man Friendly!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2003)

Well guys, the girlfriend/wife wants you to watch another love flick with her, huh??? Yea, sounds like such fun (sigh). But relax, there might be one that both of you enjoy. And I am not talking about when you just tell her you liked it to make her happy.........and to avoid the 50 questions that would follow if you actually told the truth. The whys; whats; how comes; nag; nag; blah; blah; etc. I recently got bored one night, when I couldn't fall asleep, and decided to order "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days" on pay-per-view. The reason I chose this paricular movie was pretty deep and complex. It was the only one getting ready to start other than "Kangaroo Jack" (worst current movie).
I have read some reviews of "How......10 Days" in which people complained that it wasnt romantic enough. And others, that it wasnt risky/daring enough. Now granted, there were a few other directions this film could have gone, and I am sure they would have worked well, but the one chosen for this movie worked great. And I feel it was refreshing to see a romantic movie that wasnt trying to pull on your heart strings the entire time, nor trying to add in a bunch of side stories for added humor. (Please forgive me, for I give very vague descriptions of movies. I try to give enough info to give my opinion, and just enough to try to help othersdecide if they want to see te movies. But I neer want to give away to much. Its best to see a movie and be surprised, rather than already knowing the script before viewng it.) "......10 Days" was a funny movie. It focused on a lady trying to play a man, in order to have a story for ladies magazine. However, little does she know it, but he is also trying to play her......so that he can be in charge of the advertising/marketing of diamonds, at his advertising company. The movie focuses on Kate Hudson's character doing anything and everything to annoy Mathew's character. Tons of small little things that tend to either scare guys off, or just frustrate them. However, Mathew's character, no matter how annoyed or just plain p***ed off he gets, refuses to end the relationship because he ants that business account mentioned earlier........which ticks her off. So the whole movie shows them both being angry with each other, but refusing to dump the other.....due to the goals they wee trying to achieve. And of course eventually, they truely do get close and care about each other. I think what I enjoyed the most about this movie was that the things Kate did to try to get Mathew to break up with her, most of which were real small things, are real things from real life. Little things that real women do, without knowing it, that bothers guys. So I saw a few things in thise movie that I had seen in real life, and it just made me laugh.