{"id":2025,"date":"2009-04-03T00:37:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2009-04-03T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T04:37:09","slug":"hes-just-not-that-into-you-2009-ken-kwapis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2025","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Just Not That Into You (2009, Ken Kwapis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Kwapis made classic punchline film <abbr title=\"a better ape movie than Every Which Way But Loose?\"><em>Dunston Checks In<\/em><\/abbr> (and it doesn&#8217;t help that I imagine his last name sounding like &#8220;crappest&#8221;).  Movie landed the writers of <em>Never Been Kissed<\/em>, producer of <em>Dumb and Dumberer<\/em>, cinematographer of <em>Antitrust<\/em> and music composer of <em>Free Willy 3<\/em> (no, not Michael Jackson).  All that wouldn&#8217;t have sounded good on a poster, so it focused on the actresses instead.<\/p>\n<p>Ginnifer Goodwin (<em>Porn &#8216;n Chicken<\/em>) is the irritating main character, a desperate love-starved stalker who&#8217;s gets simplistic love advice from bartender Mac Guy Justin Long (<em>Herbie: Fully Loaded<\/em>).  Grocery store checkout-aisle magazine star Jennifer Aniston (<em>Leprechaun<\/em>) has a perfect relationship with perfect guy Ben Affleck (<em>Reindeer Games<\/em>) but he won&#8217;t marry her.  Hair-gelled Bradley Cooper (<em>Midnight Meat Train<\/em>) is married to his neat-freak high-school sweetheart Jennifer Connelly (<em>Dark Water<\/em>), passive-aggressively sleeps around with flirty wannabe-singer Scarlett Johansson (<em>Home Alone 3<\/em>, <em>Eight Legged Freaks<\/em>) which naturally breaks up his marriage.  Realtor Kevin Connolly (<em>John Q<\/em>, <em>Rocky V<\/em>) dates Ginnifer once, dates Scarlett long-term, provides gay jokes.  Drew Barrymore (<em>Freddy Got Fingered<\/em>, <em>Batman Forever<\/em>) produced, plays a coworker at Goodwin &#038; Aniston(?)&#8217;s design company, and appearances from Kris Kristofferson (as Aniston&#8217;s heart-attack-having father) and Luis Guzm\u00e1n (as Connelly&#8217;s home renovation contractor) keep guys like me entertained during the otherwise entirely-chick flick.  I found it pretty bearable overall.  Katy liked it I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Kwapis made classic punchline film Dunston Checks In (and it doesn&#8217;t help that I imagine his last name sounding like &#8220;crappest&#8221;). Movie landed the writers of Never Been Kissed, producer of Dumb and Dumberer, cinematographer of Antitrust and music composer of Free Willy 3 (no, not Michael Jackson). All that wouldn&#8217;t have sounded good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}