"Something Got to Give" - a rant about a movie **spoilers**

[LynneSin]

What woman would be crazy enough to dump someone as adorable as Keanu Reeves for an asshole like Jack Nicholson (who basically played a character very similiar to who Jack is in real-life - a senior citizen lothario who only dates women half his age.)

If I had written the script to that movie, Erica Berry (part played by Diane Keaton) would have told Jack to go jump into the Seine River!

[oberliner]

1. I didn't think that made any sense either eom

[Mad_Dem_X]

2. Jack plays the same character

in nearly all of his movies, IMO.

[GalleryGod]

7. Ironically it is Reeves who plays the same character.

I find him incredibly boring.

[LostinVA]

3. That's what the SO rants every time it's on

[GalleryGod]

4. Sorry. We love it. One of our favorites.

Of course, my wife and I are actually in our mid-50's.
Jack is great. So is Diane. Peet is good also.
Try not project your life on to that of the character of Erica,until, that is, you actually reach the age of 53.

[Ramsey]

5. Lynne-

That movie was incredibly stupid. End of story!!

[GalleryGod]

6. Got to disagree,Libby

You and Lynne might just be too young now, IRL.

[Ramsey]

15. I feel so ageist!!

:-)

However, I am not so young myself!!

I think the real reason I dislike the movie is that I cannot stand Diane Keaton, and Jack Nicholson is starting to get on my nerves too.

[LynneSin]

12. I love the movie, it's actually well done

and it tackles dating habits of the Older-man/younger-woman and how difficult it gets for women when they get older.

I think it's well done - I just wish she had told Jack to go kiss her ass or something

[skygazer]

8. Because she had chemistry with Jack

and there is absolutely no chemistry in Keanu, cute as he may be. I wouldn't want to date him, either, if he's anything like his acting. It would be like dating a mannequin. Jack's an asshole, but a charming one.

[Taverner]

9. I would have thrown Jack into the river for trying to make chick flicks...

Mr Nicholson is talented yes...but these damn chick flicks he does are a waste of - well everything

[GalleryGod]

17. I think Something did $145 mil.

Loved it. Own it. My bride bought the sound track.

But "That's why Chasen's had menus"...different taste.

[Taverner]

18. Didn't say they didn't do well

Just that its just too damn easy to make chick flicks

[GalleryGod]

19. Point well taken, T.

Hoooooooooooooo-ray for Hol-ly-woooooooooooood:popcorn:

[CBHagman]

26. Not really!

Actually, I think it's hard to make a proper chick flick, to say nothing of doing it well. What else could explain the fact that the cineplex is devoting multiple screens to swill written, directed by, and starring people who believe that bathroom humor is the height of cultural accomplishment?

Hello, Netflix account. Hello, TCM.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Maybe she didn't want to be worshipped...

It was helpful to her when she was down, but not so great for eternity.

Besides, Nicholson's character helped her see through her own neuroses...not only that, he loved her...quirks and all.

[MoseyWalker]

11. I like old Jack

and think it was a good conclusion to the movie. Agreed with others who said that Keanu is dull.

What's with channels always showing the same movies over and over for months at a time? One would think there were only 100 movies made in the history of the world.

[LynneSin]

13. Yeah, I think at 3 different times I found that movie on TBS

at least it wasn't the Shawshank Redemption, which ironically you can hardly find on TV anymore

[huskerlaw]

14. I love the movie

but I agree...she should have stayed with Keanu. (and I really hate Keanu, so that's saying something)

[dback]

16. Why did Nicholson date Helen Hunt in "As Good As it Gets?"

Shirley Knight, who played Hunt's MOTHER in that piece of fraudulant crap, is Nicholson's age; Hunt is almost 24 years younger, IIRC.

Mind you, I liked "Something's." I think Reeve's blankness didn't match up with Keaton's slightly neurotic joie-de-vivre, and Nicholson's charisma was undeniable. (Reeves was probably a great fling, though.)

[grace0418]

20. Amen. Keanu Reeves may not be the sharpest tack but BOY is he pretty.

I know that's really shallow but he's really pretty.

[MissMillie]

21. You're not at all impressed that the character becomes

enlightened about his womanizing ways?

[nini]

23. Agreed.. that was the point

guess some women are showing the pretty boy should get the nod mentality :shrug:

[Beausoir]

22. Loved the movie...but she had more in common with Jack.

Keanu was pretty and fawning but I would have felt smothered by him.

Jack was more interesting. And...richer. Tee-hee.

[Arugula Latte]

24. I also didn't like "As Good As It Gets" because why should

the Helen Hunt character have to settle for the Jack Nicholson character, who is too old for her and also obsessive? Sure, he had money, but, sheesh. I hate the message that sends.

[Orrex]

25. I missed that film

I mean, TBS only ran it fifteen times last weekend and twenty times the weekend before that. How am I supposed to catch an airing?

Something's Got to Give is notable, in my book, for being one of a very few films in which Keanu's performance was actually watchable, engaging, and somewhat convincing.