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A Movie Review - He's Just Not That Into You

Unlike the movie Bride's War, He's Just Not That Into You headlining with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Annison, Jennifer Connelly and Drew Barrymore can not be easily reviewed in a sequential format. For one thing, there were about a multitude of stories going on in the movie at the same time.

For the purpose of continuity and sanity, the story that has a thread (computer language) or a story line that runs parallel through out the movie will be espounded upon and captured. Literally, the movie viewers will have to actually pounce upon the fleeting story lines because there are so many. Every single character seemed to be connected with the other. As you watch the movie, you begin to ask yourself, where will you see this or that character again? How are so many stories going to get told fully in the time alloted for the movie?

The writer of the movie tried at continuity with random people every few minutes or so throughout the movie adding to the confusion of the viewer with their thoughts on relationships. This influx of extra conversation added to the discourse or dissaray of "He's Just Not That Into You.

Above and beyond looking at the seemingly disjointed movie, the movie viewer have to read captures of prose glaring at them in large white letters about what to look for to find out if he's "into you or not." Captions such as, if he is not calling you and if he is not sleeping with you to name a few indicates that he is not into you. Then, low and behold, out of nowhere is a cameo of the author of the book of which the movie is adapted , "He's  Just Not That  Into You." What the heck? Why did the writer think it necessary to show a glance of the author and how in the heck for lack of a better word did the author fit into the scheme of such a chaotic movie? Did the author of the book want to receive additional royalties or residual income from "He's Just Not Into You?

"The Science of Chaos" is actually a book that explains the study of chaos in the real world. Movie goers of this movie, "He's Just Not that Into You, needs to read that particular book to get a sense of what is going on between all of those characters. Why  do they have to read large white printed characters like they should have a pen and pencil to take notes while trying to put the many faces of the movie into perspective.

After explaining why "He's Just Not Into You" is a chaotic movie and is difficult to review, let's start from the beginning shall we? This movie,  believe it or not actually has a beginnning.

First of all, you have to ask the movie clerk who happens to be female for tickets to "He's Just Not Into You." You cordially ask her if she is tired of people telling her that her boyfried is just not that into her. Just kidding. The female movie clerk smiles at you and agrees that she is tried of hearing the title of the movie, but she has to hear it to give you  the right movie ticket, so she listens to the title,over and over again. The movie clerk repeats "He's Just Not that Into You" and hands you the movie ticket.

Okay, now for the movie review of " He's Just Not That  Into You." The movie is truly a tryst of telling how men feel about the main theme that hits and misses throughout  the movie. First of all, you have to stare at the blonde very manly robust guy of a shopper who has the most beautiful ice blue eyes and the most handsome cognizance of a face. The Swiss-looking hottie ,of course, is the only married man in the movie. For having no idea of this handsome guy's name, he will be called "the Married Man" in this movie review. The Married Man walks behind a blonde woman in the grocery store. She was not equally attractive as him but mildly becoming with a bombshell of a body with large boobs and complimenting hips. For the sake of this movie review and having not heard any mention of her name, this woman will be called the Other Woman. The sultry shape of her body, was one of two not counting Jennifer Anniston's, who was embarrassed and despicted throughout the movie as "old" and single.

The married man laddled with beer and gum lets the other woman in front of him in line. The viewers are so mesmerized with the looks of the Married Man that they aptly forget what the other woman was purchasing. The other woman was lucky at the small grocery store and won a red and white cooler for being the 1000th customer. Gushingly, she tells the not-a-care in the world stout cashier that she had never won anything before. Then to the chagrin of the movie viewers and something that would not happen in real life, the Other Woman turns around and bodily hugs the Married Man. This is only their first meeting but the viewers can see the attraction in the Other Woman's eyes for the Married Man.

Outside of the grocery store, the two get into a conversation about how he can help her with connections for a singing deal and both leave to their respective cars.  He honestly tells her that he is a Married Man but that does not shut off the spark she has for him at that first happenstance meeting and  having starred  into those ice blue eyes for the first time. It would be easier to follow this one storyline but for the sake of boredom and not adhering to the frantics of the movie, let's get to why such movie blockbusters like Ben Affleck , Jennifer Connelly, and Jennifer Anniston is in this confusion of a movie.

Well, the Married Man walks out to the car after the shopping liason with the Other Woman for the first time and Ben Affleck is sitting there in the car not as handsome as the blonde swiss looking manly Married Man. No explanation was given to the relationship between the two men, the movie had to have some way of getting to the  major headliners of the movie or the viewers may decide why they were sitting at this movie at a cost of $13.50.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Anniston are living together in "He's Just Not Into You" as partners and he has been getting this free setup for about 7 years. Jennifer Anniston has been trying to get him to marry her but Ben Affleck has figured out that to prove your love does not necessarily mean that you need a marriage certificate.But Jennifer Anniston biological clock is just about on high noon and her baby sister Maria announced that she was getting married. Jennifer Anniston wanted so desperately to get married and had waited five years after making her decision two years into the relationship.

Then at Jennifer Anniston's office, the movie viewer meets GiGi - the one character the movie is basically about - and Jennifer Connelly. You guessed it. Jennifer Connelly is the wife of the Married Man. The set designers had to do quite a lot of neglect on Jennifer Connelly's makeup as Jennifer is a very beautiful woman. The story line was that her and the married man was rennovating their home after years of marriage and her looks were toned down for the task. The beautiful Jennifer Connelly was made to look homely for such a chaotic movie wearing two pigtails during the majority of the movie. The two Jens were constantly trying to tell GiGi that Connor, the friend of the Bartender that eventually woos GiGi, was maybe just not that into her. GiGi had met Connor at a bar and fell for her in her search for a man.

Eventually both Jens realized that their men were not into them.Jennifer Anniston got upset after her sister's wedding announcement and broke off with Ben Affleck when he refused to marry her. Jennifer Connlley married to Mr. Married Man (the blonde handsome swiss-looking manly man with the icy blue eyes) found out that he cheated on her with the blonde singer her husband had met at the store at the beginning of the movie. After finding a suspicious cigarette pack in their house that was being rennovated, she paid him a visit to his office. The blonde bombshell was in the office for a sexual encounter with the Married Man and he ushered her into a closet to hide her from Jennifer Connelly. As the Married Man had honestly told the blonde singer that he was married, he also had told Jennifer Connlley, his wife,  that he had been sleeping with the the blonde bombshell while on  a shopping trip at the Home Depot. He thought she was going to put him out immediately, but she decided to "stand by her man."

He lied while the blonde woman was in the closet eavesdropping that he still loved Jennifer Connlley and that he wanted to make the marriage work. Mind you, the blonde bombshell was in the closet half dressed with her dress down to the floor of the closet half wearing a bright red bra. After Jennifer Connelly seduced her husband in his office chair while the woman was in the closet, hiding, the blonde bombshell stormed out of the the closet and told the Married Man to never touch her again. The handsome Married Man ended up losing both women with Jennifer Connelly smashing a mirror in the house the two were rennovating only to have to sweep the debris up herself. She realized that her surprised office visit did not cure the Married Man of his sexual fantasies. She left him a note once she arranged his clothes neatly  folded and rolled  socks placed strategically on the steps so that his stuff would be the first thing he saw when he entered the now completely rennovated house. Previously, Jennifer Connelly had angrily thrown his clothes from the closet onto the floor and smashed the heavily orrnated mirror. She left a note that simply told the handsome Married Man that: "P.S. Go for it. I want a divorce."

GiGi was an office mate constantly looking for clues as to when a man was "into you." She followed Connor, a real estate friend she had met at a bar who had a former relationship with the blonde bombshell that was involved with Jennifer Connelly's husband, the Married Man. GiGi was desperately seeking any man it seemed to be interested in her and sought the advice of the Bartender who had all kinds of advice on men for her to drink on. You guessed it. She finally fell for the Bartender and he was not showing any interest in her even after she "co-hosted" one of his bartender home parties and threw her body on him thinking that he cared. She thought the Bartender was into her because he had interrupted a kissing session with another woman to answer her telephone call. Also, he was giving her all this advice and he even met her for a supposed date set up but the mysterious guy did not show. He lied and told her that he was not into her, though a fellow female bartender told him that he was beginning to show all of the signs to the contrary. The Bartender had fallen for GiGi.

But GiGi had decided to get on with her life and after being dissapointed with the Bartender, she started to date other men and to clean up her credit report. As they always do, men come alive when they are trying to conquer a woman. The Bartender kept calling GiGi until just like he had advised her, he showed up on her doorstep. The Bartender told GiGi earlier on that if a man wants to see you then he will see you. This statement must hold true because, there was the bartender , standing on the threshold of her door, gushing with words of love for GiGi who had decided to move on. GiGi asked him about all of his objections to relationships. The bartender reply to GiGi was that "You are the exception." GiGi accepted his vows of love and eventually married him.

Drew Barrymore seemed to have been thrown in the movie to try to get the movie to the 21st Century. She had spaced booked (the new booty call), face booked, emailed and cellular phoned every relationship opportunity to no avail. She almost got hooked up until the same guy phoned her friend and asked whether he had just called the same number (Duh). Then to the dismay of the movie viewers, Drew Barrymore, looks at an ad in the newspaper and see good ole Connor, the real estate agent sitting at a table a few feet from hers. While starring at him, she calls and asks if she can come over to his cafe table. Connor looked a little gay to the movie viewers if you can look a little gay.  You know, just a little too cute.  You know, just a little too small featured. However,  slowly Drew Barrymore puts down the wireless device and meets and greets love-lost and love-lorn Connor. You see, Connor, was just dished by the blonde bombshell introduced at the beginning of the movie review with the Married Man at the grocery store. This is the guy who the blonde bombshell had run to when she decided to dump the Married Man after he pleased himself in the office chair with his wiife.  (GiGi had stalked this guy to see if she could get him to start a relationship with her).So Drew Barrymore's man Connor came with a lot of history. 

"Old" Jennifer Anniston got back together with Ben Affleck and told him that she would stay with him on the condition that he tossed a pair of khaki pants that she did not like.  Ben Affleck brought the pants into the apartment and he tells her to check the pockets before throwing the pair of khaki pants out.  You guessed it.  Jennifer Anniston found a little box with an engagement ring from Ben Affleck.  When she turned around after walking away from him to toss the pants, there he was, Ben Affleck, on his knees asking Jennifer Anniston to marry him.  Of course, she said "Yes."  After watiing seven years to find out was he into her enough to marry her, she was not about to say no. 

Here is a recap of what happed to the characters without reading those white letters of He's Just Not That Into You."  You do not have to take notes. 

The Married Man  -  Divorced and meeting yet another woman in the same grocery store seeking sexual healing.  Hadn't he learned his lesson with the blonde bombshell? 

Jennifer Connelly  -  Divorced and moved on without the construction worker. (Yes a construction worker was in the movie when Jennifer Connelly acousted him with the box of suspicious cigarettes while expecting the Married Man of cheating.  The movie viewers never found out who those cigarettes belonged to called American Spirit  - Maybe President Barack Obama?) Jennifer Connelly probably vowed never to ask another man to marry her and maybe wait next time to be sure that the person in the relationship is really into her. 

Ben Affleck  -  Finally proposed to Jennifer Anniston saying that although he did not believe in the institution of marriage, he wanted to make her happy.  Men know when to say the darnest things.  Good for Jennifer Anniston 

Jennifer Anniston - Finally received her marriage proposal from Ben Affleck after seven years of begging.

The Other Woman - Went to India with a band moving on without Connor or the Married Man.

Drew Barrymore - Electronic romance got her to Connor, the other woman's baggage of a relationship and the recipient for a short while of GiGi's aggression.

GiGi - Married the Bartender when she decided to forget about figuring out  whether or not someone was into her.  GiGi got her life back together and got a husband as a bonus.

The Bartender - Now,  the Know it All, is not figuring out when a man is just not into you.  He got caught in his own game of love or love's initial rejection and started calling GiGi constantly.  GiGi reward of showing him that she may speculate a whole lot about guys but she had been closer at being in a real relationship that he was.  GiGi resented being used as a "co-host" of his party while he played video games with a beautiful bartender friend.  Also, this guy may have been on the prowe because GiGi stopped calling him and decided to move on with her life.  He pops into her apartment without notice and tells her in the most poetic part of the movie to forget about all of his "He's Just Not Into You" rules.  The rules no longer applied because GiGi like Tome Crusie said in the Jerry McGuire Movie, "you complete me;" the bartender said that GiGi "was the exception."

Sit there after the end of the movie, the chaos and the confusion continues.  As the movie credits are rolling, the futures of the characters are being shown through the movie credits.  So "He's Just NotThat Into You" is not over when it's over. 

 

 

 

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