The Other Woman

[sjankis630]

I went to see this with another couple. The women picked the movie.
It was pretty bad. Not much was that funny and by the end of the movie I was actually rooting for the asshole husband some.
It is not really laugh outloud funny and at the same time it has no real heart/enpowerment parts either. The actress who plays the cheated on wife actually is the best thing about the movie early on, but even she succumbs to the dumb by the end.
For some reason someone thought having a great dane constantly in the movie would be funny. I have news for them he wore out his welcome by his second scene.
Also to any director or future director/writer out there ..... a dog defecating on a living room floor is never ever funny. And really if you are going to do it you don't actually have to show the shit, you could just use the reaction of the actors to convey what has happened.
The worst part of this whole experience was that the theater was packed full of women who cheered in the right places but I would bet when they went home would not be able to recall anything really substantial from the viewing experience.

[Sunnyhorse]

Even NPR took the time to rip this film a new one.

[Ripley]

I really wanted to like this movie. I like the idea of the women associated with a three-timing bastard band together to teach him a lesson. But the reviews were so terrible, I decided not to go.

ETA (from the NPR review):

If you were on an airplane, The Other Woman might not be preferable to simply staring into your empty airsick bag, but it has enough nicely executed physical comedy that in the event you become ill, it is definitely preferable to staring into your occupied airsick bag.

Ouch.

[eclair]

Also, from the NPR review:

"It does not, however, manage to pass the Bechdel test, the laughably low bar that asks these questions: (1) Does a film have two women in it? (2) Do they talk to each other? (3) About something other than a man?

Yyyyyyyup. That's right. The Other Woman is 109 minutes long, and at no time do any of these women — including Carly and her secretary, who only know each other from work — pause for a discussion, even for a moment, of anything other than a series of dudes: Mark, Kate's brother, Carly's father, the secretary's husband, Carly's other boyfriends. It is truly, no fooling, all they talk about for 109 minutes.

As has often been observed, there is nothing about the Bechdel test that is magical: plenty of good movies don't pass it, and heaven knows plenty of terrible movies do. But the fact that a large studio like Twentieth Century Fox — not to mention an actual nonjoke director like Nick Cassavetes — can make an ode to female empowerment that at no time involves any women relating to each other about anything other than men?"

The previews just looked so bad I had already decided to skip this. Too bad, they could have made a good movie.

[Deleted]

It unseated Captain America at the number 1 spot at the box office. How sad.

[Beyle]

Apr 27, 2014 17:42:50 GMT -4 @roisin54 said:

It unseated Captain America at the number 1 spot at the box office. How sad.

How could that movie have unseated one that I presume features Chris Evans' abs?

ETA: That's one of the most amazing movie reviews I've ever read.

[WestEndGirl]

The NPR review was written by Miss Alli, formerly of Television Without Pity.

I saw this last night. The gross-out humor (dog poop, toilet scene) was too much for me and the entire movie hinged on what seemed to be a huge implausibility/plot hole. My friend and I mostly just coveted Cameron Diaz's apartment and wardrobe.

[narm]

That NPR review is a thing of beauty. I thought I read some shades of Mighty Big TV/TWOP/FT/etc in it! It just had that *feel* to it.

I'm bummed. Sounds like it had some potential. I like Leslie Mann, a lot. My hub and I say "some fuckin french toast" at least once a month. I've always been a Cameron Diaz fan, too.

[luminosa]

I thought there were some funny bits. Leslie Mann in particular was very good and I always enjoy Cameron Diaz onscreen (while her real life leaves me cold). Bathroom humor is my least favorite type of humor, so that was a no go for me. The big thing I came away with from this movie is god dayum, did Lady Gaga do well for herself. Taylor Kinney is smokin' hot. Kate Upton, while not going to win an Oscar any time soon, was definitely better than I thought she'd be.

This movie had potential to be better.

[lea1977]

Apr 27, 2014 20:57:52 GMT -4 WestEndGirl said:

The NPR review was written by Miss Alli, formerly of Television Without Pity.

I saw this last night. The gross-out humor (dog poop, toilet scene) was too much for me and the entire movie hinged on what seemed to be a huge implausibility/plot hole. My friend and I mostly just coveted Cameron Diaz's apartment and wardrobe.

That is what I usually like about Cameron's movies, apartment and wardrobe.