ironhorse_iv Review of The Ugly Truth

The Ugly Truth (2009)

Here is the ugly truth about this movie. It's nearly unwatchable.

[6/10 · 25 July 2013]

This movie, not only insults straight men and women, both gay and lesbians, and different countries social customs relationships. It's not good to insult your viewers like this. I don't find this movie directed by Robert Luketic, decent at all. Some critics really hate the film, some people says that this movie does tell the truth. I have to disagree. While I do say, it's a film that shouldn't be taken serious and I don't hate it, it does need some good old fashion criticize. If anything, I'd call this movie chauvinistic, as it exaggerated implies that all men are sexist pricks who only want to bang as many women as possible, and that all women exist only to be shrewish, egotistical money grabbing naive romanticism. In truth, yes, sex does play a role in relationships, but not all relationships are about sex. People also go into relationships for other reasons, like loved, cherished, made to feel special, safe and secure. Is it a bit selfish to want those things or all in a relationship? Yes, but it doesn't mean, people in relationships are pricks and shrews. It's because we differ from some animals because we don't only take, but give back as well. It is the ability to go against our natural instincts and treat the opposite sex with respect and equality that helps define us as humans. If this movie was indeed "the Truth", then it seems to say we should all just give in to our primal desires for sex and make horrible choices with it. But why stop there? Why not give into our urges to murder those who invade our territory, rape at will, and lose all trace of progression and civility we have left! This is why this movie fails. Believe it or not, there are people like Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) and Mike Chadway (Gerald Butler). Really, they do exist. I have seen them, just not a daily basis. These people are the true annoying pricks and shrews. In no way does they represent society as a whole. Mike host a TV Show call 'The Ugly Truth' where he advice women into getting relationship with men by being an over-the-top misogynist. Heigl stars as the producer, Abby who disagree with Mike and try to control him every step of the way. Both make a 'battle of the sexes' deal with each other to see which idealism works on getting a relationship. How bad this movie is, obviously comes from these three women who wrote this. Like any other romantic comedy, you know deep in the end, these two would end up falling in love with other. Romantic comedies are so predictable and unrealistic. I doubt these two can ever fall in love, but in weirdest cases, it could, but most unlikely. I can never bring myself to feel for someone who has seemingly gotten themselves deeply involved with the totally wrong person only to turn 180º and abandon said person for that one true love, nor for a couple who manages to get back together after spending the entire movie hating one another, nor a case like this where both leads have such serious defects you don't want to see either one of them have that happy ending. Invariably, the audience is asked to sympathize with one or both leads. The three female screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith, and Nicole Eastman who wrote this probably sympathized with Gerard Butler quite a bit, and make the other women leads as unsympathetic trollops as possible. Every woman in this movie, including Abby, was a shallow, dumb, selfish, or arrogant. I guess they were saying, while women might hate men; women hate other women even more. The movie never solves the real problem with Heigl's character that is that she was a control freak, she has ridiculously high standards, and she overly judgmental of the men she meets. Both just naïve fall in love. The movie mocks naive romanticism, yet in the end, the movie have naïve romanticism win out. Talk about being hypocrites here. The jokes are a hit or miss here. I do like the remote control scene at the restaurant and the odd baseball game scene, even if it's seem out of place. It wasn't that funny, but it was decent. The whole random rape joke was a miss for me. It kill the mood. Was that supposed to be funny? Both actors did a pretty good job, even if their characters are unlikeable. For a date night movie, I have to say, it didn't work. Watching this movie on a first date would be awkward. I think watching this movie will sent more people apart, then bring them together closer. I might not know that much about romantic comedy, but that's not good in this type of a genre.