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hbo's sunday romcom was the ugly truth, with katherine heigl and gerard butler. the movie centered on a control freak morning TV show producer (heigl) who has relationship issues and her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love... his clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

the movie attempted to make a new twist behind the "opposites attract" and "battle of the sexes" formula, but ended up putting stereotypical edge on the two main characters. it didn't have a lot of big laughs, just the usual romcom staple of slapsticky situations such as when abby fell down from a tree or when they went to the baseball game. most of the scenes were just a big allegory to oral sex, which were not depicted funny-ly. what i think worked for the movie was the chemistry between heigl and butler... scenes with their banter were on the plus side. the ending again was already expected, they ended up together and the other guy who was perfect for abby turned out to be just another regular guy.


Abby Richter: The big strong brave men, that we've all been reading about in novels and watching in movies since we've been nine years old, - -that's a fallacy. They don't exist. Men are not strong. Men are not brave. Men, are afraid. Even if they have a moment in a hotel elevator and it's totally romantic and full of potential, men are incapable of copping to it because, why? Men are weak.

Mike: Let me tell you something about women. Women would have us believe that they are the victims; That we break their hearts for sport. That's crap. They say they want romance, they say they want true love, but all they want is a check list. Is he perfect? Is he handsome? Is he a doctor? For you men who fit the criteria, don't kid yourselves. Cuz they're not sleeping with you, they're sleeping with a carefully calculated set of venal choices. Money over substance, looks over soul, polished over principles. No gesture, no matter how real or romantic will ever compensate for a really impressive list of credentials.