{"id":9315,"date":"2007-04-17T00:17:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2007-04-17T00:17:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T04:17:30","slug":"trouble-with-men-and-women-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/17\/trouble-with-men-and-women-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble with Men and Women (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"troublemenwomen\"<\/a>Okay, so last month, I finally saw \u201cLondon.\u201d I mean, I\u2019d heard from folks that it was an awful and grueling movie to sit through, but sometimes you just have to experience it. There\u2019s something in us that, even though we\u2019re told being stung by a bee hurts, inspires us to seek out that bee and have that experience. It was the same thing with \u201cLondon.\u201d People were talking endlessly about this film that was utterly awful, and yet I sought it out. And it still stings. Suffice it to say, \u201cLondon\u201d was an awful and dreadful relationship drama that sought out to be such an edgy glance at romance between two fuck-ups.<\/p>\n

The redeeming trait of course being Kelly Garner, whose snatch I\u2019d cut a pinky finger off to get my head in-between.
\n\u201cThe Trouble with Men and Women,\u201d in its generic title and instant genre pigeon hole, is much like the aforementioned film, except\u2026 not as moronic, and utterly sappy. The problems with \u201cLondon,\u201d though, are basically the same here. We\u2019re expected to give a shit about two utterly vapid folks, and their relationship when they\u2019re just so annoying to watch. And of course, as with all romance dramas, people quote philosophers, they wax poetic about romance, and our main character Matt attempts single life even in the face of his inability to move on from his past relationship with his ex, Deborah.<\/p>\n

And the sad aspect is that no one ever tells Matt to shut the fuck up and get a life, they instead have some long drawn out speech about romance and what some Greek philosopher had to say about love or relationships. Do people actually do this? I think Kate Ashfield is worth glancing at in almost anything she\u2019s in. From the romantic interest in \u201cShaun of the Dead,\u201d right down to the love lorn confidant Susie, she\u2019s a lovely specimen to behold on-screen and plays well off of McFadden who has a very palpable chemistry with her. \u201cThe Trouble with Men and Women\u201d is a typical romance dramedy that really never covers new ground.<\/p>\n

Characters go in and out of bars, our main man Matt moans about his girlfriend, and just can\u2019t find a way to move on, and nothing is really ventured or gained in the entire time we\u2019re watching. The pacing and energy lags, while we\u2019re struggling to discover what the whole point is to this story. Is Matt in love with his confidant Susie? Is he still in love with his ex? Will he stay with the gorgeous woman he conveniently met on the subway? All in all, \u201cThe Trouble with Men and Women\u201d is yet another dreary romance drama that\u2019s redundant, tedious, and often too vapid to be taken seriously when focusing on one dimensional cardboard cutouts we’re told we have to care about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so last month, I finally saw \u201cLondon.\u201d I mean, I\u2019d heard from folks that it was an awful and grueling movie to sit through, but sometimes you just have to experience it. There\u2019s something in us that, even though we\u2019re told being stung by a bee hurts, inspires us to seek out that bee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,367,874,1020],"class_list":["post-9315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-romance","tag-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}