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Re: To the guys who loved this movie and disagreed w/me below:

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on February 5, 2005 at 08:29:40

In Reply to: To the guys who loved this movie and disagreed w/me below: posted by tinear on February 3, 2005 at 18:18:57:

"do you get out much?'

Yes.

"The guy's wife left him because he is such a self-centered loser."

No, he is a much more complicated person than that. Just because *you* don't see it doesn't mean it aint there.

" You may think attractive women find it attractive for a guy to give them zero eye-contact on a first date and spend most of the time thinking of their ex, and then to ignore a cautious romantic overture."

Good lord, what movie did you see? They made plenty of eye contact on their first date (which was not their first meeting, they knew each other already) and they mostly discussed their common passion, wine. That usually yields a pretty high success rate for first dates IME. Do they have baggage as divorcees? Yes. Welcome to the reality of dating after a divorce. Are you ignoring that they have another thing in common as recent divorcees? They were in the same situation. Obviously she had the perspective to deal with his baggage better than most.

"Listen, talk this film over with women, puhleeese."

I know a number of very bright women that love this movie.

" It's obvious a geeky guy who wrote a fantasy."

Not even close.

" Seriously, have you ever known, personally, a guy like that character that ended up with a babe? No."

Christ I know Virginia Madsen's cureent boy friend in real life and he is a bit of a geek with his own baggage! Yes, I know plenty of geeky guys who have had babes.

" He'd have ended up with the chubby waitress----if he was lucky."

You seem to have a real low opinion of women. Hint, they are not all that shallow and impatient.

"Oh, the fourth good performance was, of course, that of the waitress: she gave 2 good ones...
Let me emphasize how GREAT I think the two women and the actor guy were: his performance is Oscar caliber.
Giamatti's character was a nice counterpoint but exactly the same irascible character we've seen in countless other movies. The actor, on the other hand, was an unforgettable original."

Yep we saw different movies.

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