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What Women Want
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Release : | 2000 |
Rating : | 6.4 |
Studio : | Paramount, Icon Productions, Wind Dancer Films, |
Crew : | Art Department Assistant, Art Department Coordinator, |
Cast : | Mel Gibson Helen Hunt Marisa Tomei Alan Alda Ashley Johnson |
Genre : | Comedy Romance |
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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
I did not like this film at all, even despite the fact the humour was executed well. The main point of the movie seemed to be to show the main character Marshall, played by Gibson, that women actually did have feelings and personalities. The way women were portrayed in the movie, however, seemed to me to be counterproductive to this, since the majority of them (I won't say all because I don't have a photographic memory of the film) came across as shallow and as being mere accessories to the plot, rather than characters in themselves. The only women who had one iota of personality (excluding Marshall's teenaged daughter, who probably had a personality to make up for the fact that the filmmakers morally couldn't sexualise her) seemed to be the secondary main character McGuire, whose thoughts still managed to centre the majority of the time on Marshall and her opinions of him, or, conveniently, on some new idea Marshall could exploit.The main problem of the film to me was that Marshall did not seem to learn anything at all. He apparently was so misogynistic that it didn't occur to him women were independent beings capable of thought and this 'myth' for him seems to have by the end been debunked, but the idea that he supposedly learnt that women were equal to men didn't come across. In fact, the film seemed to make valid his opinion that women were only there for sex with men (eg. the end, in which Marshall ends up having sex with McGuire). McGuire's personality, in fact, seems to have been written into the film purely to make her 'hard to get', and therefore further drives home the message that women are there for men's benefit.This is the most misogynistic film I have ever seen.
What Women Want. An out of box idea where Nick played by charming Mel Gibson gets the miraculous ability to hear what women are thinking. As expected, this ability makes him women's favorite and helps him boost his career where he is directly competing with Darcy played by smart Helen Hunt who eventually becomes his love interest. The interesting idea evolves into a number of witty sequences where Nick manipulates the women around him by using their own thoughts and all these women fall for him instantly. The movie is nicely paced to give you enough time to absorb the idea. Pairing of Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt works in right manner where both make you root for them. Although movie seems to fail in exploiting the smart idea to its best of the potential but it still makes some nice moments. I am going with good 7 out of 10 for What Women Want. It will never blow your mind off but it makes for a nice watch anytime.
This could have been the subject of this movie as Mel can heard women's thoughts as well as canine's ones: we never know why and if there's a hidden message behind this. Anyway, he prefers to tune with women and Mel is indeed comfortable in a comedy: his telepathic ability inspire some really funny moments, especially regarding the life at work: now, i understand why we are so tired coming back home: telling something and thinking the opposite is indeed tiring! However, it's true: we must get along all day with people who are sometimes worst than awful! Beyond, this original idea is not used to its maximum as the movie sticks to the credo of American movie: over there, work stops at the manager level and happens in big corporate firm, usually in entertainment (see De Palma's "Passion"): Thus, as real job is a bit more soliciting for people, audience should felt alienated. This was my feeling as I'm really fed up to follow the life of those privileged, living in big condos, needing staff for everything. What's revealing here is that Mel precisely falls in love with his big boss but maybe an humanist consciousness makes him notice the small archivist as well, maybe the only one true character here!In addition, the movie is a huge brainwash for advertising, which is the most devious activity ever, as its goal is to make think that the moon is full of green eye. As they said in Groland, having Nike sneakers, we don't play basketball like Mike, neither having Mont Blanc pen, write novels like Heminghway, etc...At last, i really don't understand the need to take being gay as pretext to end an relationship. So, this movie has really some excellent moment of brilliance but also very disappointing ones. But it was great to see Mel being a cool jerk and for that someway, it was very unusual and refreshing!
This is one of those rare comedies that I'm not tire re-watching with great pleasure. I'm sure, every man at Earth dreams to know what really women want and I think even women don't know it answer. This film will not give up exact an answer this question but it's hinting exactly. Remarkable director Nancy Meyers was able to make film about relationship men and women that will be interesting for everyone. Mel Gibson is the star of action movies terrific showed himself in comedian role, proving what he can laugh at himself too. Charming Helen Hunt make perfect portrait of modern woman who is active, confident in herself, independent but as well she is vulnerable, touching and tender in her inner world. In that film there are many beautiful women as Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Lauren Holly, Judy Greer, Sarah Paulson, Lisa Edelstein and therefore for me "What Women Want" like a feast.