Worst Modern Rom-Coms: "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"
How can two beautiful people make a movie as lousy as "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days?"
It's a question I still have no answer for, but the movie remains my go-to choice for worst romantic comedy in ages. It's the template against which all other rotten rom-coms should be measured.
Kate Hudson stars as a woman who, on a magazine assignment, decides to woo and dump a guy within 10 days. As movie contrivance would have it, the guy she picks is played by Matthew McConaughey, who is laboring under a separate bet that he can make any woman fall in love with him in - wait for it - 10 days.
Hate when that happens. Of course, nothing like that ever happens, one of many reasons why this movie fails on every level possible.
I used to defend McConaughey to friends and in print, but this one severed our ties permanently, Rev. Wright style. As for Hudson, suffice to say I'd rather see a 60-something Goldie Hawn woo McConaughey then suffer through one more of her rom-com performances.
Labels: Worst Modern Rom-Coms
posted by Toto @ 10:21 AM
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I try to avoid romantic comedies, but they are inevitable. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days was indeed pretty bad.
I think even the most predictable romantic comedy can be a winner - who doesn't want the stars to reunite/marry/run away with each other in the end?
It's not the formula that's so wrong, it's the approach. Real people don't act like they do in "How to Lose..."
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