Review: The Ugly Truth

Perhaps she is a pain in the neck to work with, you would be too if you had to play the same character over and over again even if it was in different scenerios...

Uma? Loved her in The Producers, she played a caricature of all her rom-com characters...and a bit of herself, I'm sure.

Surprised this film recieves such a hostile reaction from women as they were the target audience for this sort of film.
Guess whoever made this dropped the ball big time if men will only watch because they do it out of politeness and the female target have no interest.
Still chuckling over the box office of that Uma Thurman film.

Apparently she's a right pain in the neck to work with too. Made some disparaging remarks about Greys Anatomy. Although I like it when people diss shitty stuff they've been in - like that Battlefield Earth guy.

This review is so spot on, I could not put it better myself. I watched the movie recently on-line, out of boredom and curiousity. What annoyed me the most is that somehow the human race is forced to believe that women's sole purpose in life is to bag a man. And that women are not sexual beings and that only men are permitted to have a healthy sexual appetite which is also just plain ugly to feel. What a load of rubbish. I don't think I'll be in a big rush to watch another movie with Heigl, they're all the same (ok, apart from Knocked-up, that was good).

Edited at 19:59 on 29/03/10

Haha hehe that avatar still makes me laugh. I can actually hear him shouting "BA-NA-NA!" too!

I almost have to agree with you, Goatie. But at least Russell Crowe had "Cinderella Man" to give him a credibility boost. I'm not saying Butler has to go out and play another Greek war hero, but goddamn, give us something to work with!

He's the new Russell Crowe - achieved breakthrough stardom in 300, squandered it all away with continous bad choices.

As for Crowe, he needs to get back to beating up hotel clerks with phones and making historical epics with RidleyScott - Robin Hood looks cool, he even has Maximus's angry haircut & beard

I made the mistake of watching this last week... and I admit I was ready to jab pins into my eyeballs. There isn't enough brain bleach in the world to cleanse me of that mess. And I hate to admit it, but my previously undying love for GB is rapidly growing cold. I keep hoping that 300 was not just a fluke... but all i can say after watching The Ugly Truth was GODDAMMIT. And I am trying hard not to swear these days, but Gerard Butler is not helping me in this regard.

Just saw this piece of trivia on the IMDB homepage:

The Ugly Truth
After wrestling with the Jell-O twins, Gerard Butler ad-libbed the line "I can still taste you. You know what I mean."

*slow clap*

Re: Phyllis' avatar. It's brilliant isn't it. I sat and watched it for about ten minutes last night.

The challenge is on to find a better one.

Also, I think Phyllis' avater may be the greatest thing I have ever seen.
It's hypnotic and still makes me chuckle.

Somebody shone the Goat-Signal into the night and I have arrived
*stands with hands on hips looking around*

Depends if you're knuckle deep mining your own ars......oh. (le)

Animal porn isn't 'decent', Pand.

"If this really does reflect the choice of todays cinema-going audience I have been frozen and woken up in within the era of 'Idiocracy'."

You did actually spend time and money to go and watch it though? Me? I stayed at home and watched something decent.

I'd rather sit on the toilet in a pub for two hours.

Edited at 00:03 on 21/08/09

I'd rather sit in a pub for two hours. I'd rather sit on the toilet for two hours.

I had the misfortune of watching this loathsome film last night as I was out with female company and the main attraction was sold out. It actually had me in tears at one point as I contemplated how low cinema had sunk to allow this unfunny, crude and moronic piece of rubbish to reach the big screen. If this really does reflect the choice of todays cinema-going audience I have been frozen and woken up in within the era of 'Idiocracy'.

I sat for the two hours or whatever trying hard to find something in the film that was positive. Something I could latch on to, such as the camera work or the music or scenery maybe. It wasnt possible...the sub-juvenile plot just kept coming at me. I endured it only because I had received a lift to the town and didnt want to sit in a pub on my own for two hours. Only after the film had finished did I receive the information that my 'chick' companions hated it too! I'd endured two hours of bilge unnecessarily! They'd wanted to walk out too!! Bah

I admit I love me some Gerard Butler... but what the hell has he been thinking with these film choices lately??? He has broken my hard, shriveled little tar heart.

Get to fuck, everyone attached to this movie.
I mean it. Find Fuck, and get there. Bastards.
How did this movie get made? How do they sleep at night? I'm so angry! Aargh! I want my money back you wallet-raping, brain-lousing, deaf-in-the-brain evildoers.

I watched 300 again last night (blu-ray dudity is awesome) and Gerad Butler just doesn't look, act or sound like Gerard Butler in anything else. It's really, really odd. How is this possible?

Awful, awful awful! Being a girly girl i have to admit i love knocked up and 27 dresses, so was hoping id like this too, even though i hate gerard butler!
Well it proved to me that i was right to despise the man- he was the worse thing about it, well after the awful, crude writing!

I can't reconcile Gerard Butler in anything since I saw 300. He doesn't even look like he did in 300 in any pics or posters, bizarre. This movie is filed under "Nope" in my head and joins the dusty ranks of any rom-coms, Hugh Grant movies or any film with a musical montage to highlight inner torment.
As with the Bullock one, I don't understand how these make any money at all. Surely not every bloke goes because his other half wants to? At what point do you say "No,let's stay home and make amateur porn instead"?, that has more dignity and will be more beneficial in bonding than both watching a shit film.

is it really that bad?? im sure the trailer made me laugh!

Dear. Lord. This sounds like a godawful piece-of-shit movie. First Knocked Up, then 27 Dresses and now this - if the drop of quality between Katherine Heigl's films is consistent, she'll be starring in snuff films next.

I hate this film and I've not even seen it, nor do I plan to.

"The screenplay is written by three females"

That's all I needed to know. Sub-SatS bullshit. You can imagine them all sitting around a table like a bunch of witches, swapping increasingly terrible stories about how awful men are and how they attract stupid women, borne entirely out of the jealousy that's they're too old to attract said cockfaces anymore. Fuckers

It was Vicky's birthday. And for the greater good.

Urgh. Why do you do it to yourself, Ali? Why?