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Pretty Good

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The acting in this movie is really good.

What a waste of 2 hours. Don't know how this is rated so high.

Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a softcore porn writer. His famous girlfriend dumps him. He takes a break and goes to Detroit to check on his grandmother (Olympia Dukakis). He befriends the women next door. The mom (Meg Ryan) is suffering from cancer and a cheating husband. The daughter Lucy (Kristen Stewart) is angry at her mom for everything.Young Jon Kasdan is trying to inject poignancy and charm into this manufactured premise. Do people actually write porn? It sounds like a made up thing that LA writers create. And the whole relationship with mother and daughter sounds like another porn plot. Is that the connection? All the dialog have this fake idealism.The thing is I love Meg Ryan's performance when she's with Adam Brody. Kristen Stewart is once again her grumpy profound teen. She rambles through all that emo dialog. The dialog can really go from wonky childishness to fresh insightfulness.

This is a movie that should have been much better but is okay nonetheless. It's about a man named Carter who has just broken up with his famous girlfriend. He finds out from his mother that, his grandmother needs help at home so he volunteers to stay with her hoping this will help him in finding the inspiration to write a screenplay about his high school. We find out he's not thrilled with his present job, which is to write soft core porn. While helping his grandmother he becomes friends with the family across the street. He develops a friendship with the mother ( Meg Ryan) and soon the daughter ( Kirsten Stewart) and somehow finds himself a big part of their lives. The characters in this film are not fully developed which is a shame such as why the daughter hates her mother so much and why the mom feels lonely all the time. A lot of characters come in and out of this film very quickly such as the younger daughter who seems to really like Carter but is not heard from after hanging out with him. Also the fact that Carter was kissing a high school girl was very inappropriate. We later find out he's 26 and she is probably 16-17 years old. The fact that the mom is still willing to talk to Carter after that is very stupid. The story with the mom having cancer was not necessary and brought nothing to the story. Exploring the marriage should have been the main focus as the husband seems to have gone missing 30 minutes into the story.

After watching what seems to be obviously made someone who probably a feminist, I find myself disturbed by what is portrayed here. To be fair and honest, I found myself enjoying the film at first; from there it was all the way downhill. Once again we see Kristen once again in her stereotypical role, playing herself as it seems that I have not seen a single film with her in it that in anyway does she seem in character. To me she seems to best described as a wall where scriptwriters stick dialog scripts too. She is always expressing herself the same way and always with that annoying stutter but despite her best attempts to make the worst aspect of the film, I find myself hating what seems to developing into a picture that inspires emasculation.Too often we see pictures to day presenting and I am quoting from the film here "soft and shy" as the ideal guy. My response is an all resounding, no. This surreal depiction of what in reality bores women is in no way, anything but feminist drivel. And what is even more disturbing is the over used a&&hole stereotype guy called which I give with a loud 'ugh' Gabe. This is really getting bloody stupid. Relationships aren't black and white girls, and to be frank inspires me to be believed that anyone who doesn't understand this hasn't really grown up emotionally wise.Fortunately the lovely and beautiful Meg Ryan once again gives another great performance despite the crap script. If you want a good romance film, watch The Neighbour (2009) and James Cameron's classic, Titanic. Both will fill the wants and needs of all Romance lovers. New in town was also a really good romantic comedy and none of the characters present leads or any of their other male characters as anywhere in realm of "soft and shy". One more final word to Hollywood, you really need to try harder, how any of this crap is suppose to resemble real life or any good romance for that matter. To my memory, I don't remember Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca or even Mr. Darcy in any film or novel version of Pride and Prejudice did they seem to present such girlie introverted demeanor nor the aggressive archetypes that have been progressively destroying moral justice and the image of good men everywhere. If you want to see what I mean, watch Adam's Rib; a movie way ahead of its time.