![]() ![]() I can't believe I'm saying this but, uh, I think you might be right. And from someone who's felt a lot of both, trust me, pain beats regret every day of the week and twice on Sunday. It doesn't mean that you're never going to get hurt, but the pain you feel will never compare to the regret that comes from walking away from love. You've got to risk love, Sandra! I didn't and look at me! I'm a lonely ghost of a man. And you're making the same mistake right now, and I'll be goddamned if I'm going to sit by and watch. ![]() And you know what? It was the biggest mistake I ever made. So I cut it short, before she ever could. What if she hurt me? What if she left me? What if she died? It would have been the end of me. You know what? It scared the hell out of me too. You love Paul so much you forgave him the second you heard, and that's what scares you. And you know why? Because you don't actually care. It was years ago! With some slutty friend of yours! A friend, incidentally, that you're not even mad at. You and Paul have something so rare, so powerful! Don't chicken out now. He should be so lucky.Īll the magical effects feel cheesy, but that might be the fault of some of the concepts - like his flashback tour taking place in a flying bed.I am begging you: don't run away. If anyone comes out of this with dignity it might be Anne Archer, the highly attractive mother of the bride who gently turns down Connor’s proposition but at least finds it flattering. For his part, McConaughey is all too convincingly a jerk, enough so you wish Connor would miss the point of these ghostly scenes and hurry off to that graveyard with its one mourner. Garner does all she can with a thankless role but is unable to convince the viewer that she would find anything about this guy the least bit attractive. followed by a rain of tissues used to dab those tears. Mark Waters directed a script by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It’s hard to pinpoint the absolute nadir of these screwy sequences, but perhaps it comes when Douglas pulls out an umbrella and insists that the rain coming down is actually the female tears shed for him over the years. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a 2009 American romantic comedy film whose plot is based on Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Sure, Connor’s been drinking quite a bit - in fact, add alcoholism to his sexual addiction - but as the ghost warns, three female apparitions do appear to guide him through his early life to gravesite to demonstrate the hollowness of being sexually profligate. But the ghost of his departed Uncle Wayne has another goal in mind: restore Connors. Well, the ghost of his Uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), the man who taught him how to treat women badly, shows up. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past : Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner. The only woman he can’t fluster and certainly can’t coo into bed is Jenny (Garner), the childhood friend who, you instantly realize, is the one who REALLY LOVES him. Instead of Christmas, it’s the wedding of his brother (Breckin Meyer) that he bah-humbugs to the point of destroying everyone’s pleasure and causing the bride (Lacey Chabert) to call off the wedding. He’s supposed to be a scion of an old New England family - unaccountably one with a Texas accent - a fashion photographer who only takes pictures of semi-nude women who immediately jump into bed with him. ![]() They just try their luck at a different table. Connor Uncle Wayne Uncle Wayne Uh Uncle Wayne (overlapping laugh) Connor You’re dead. Uncle Wayne: (Laughs) You got that right kid. Your money will go directly to your paypal or your bank account, that is up to you. McConaughey has played these roles all too frequently: a cock of the walk who struts through a movie with a loose grin that draws women to him like bees to pollen. The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Connor This is gonna be tougher then I thought. I am a stay at home wife and mother of 6. To tell the truth, they don’t exactly sparkle either. film, though, certainly will test the drawing power of Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner. Witlessness lately has not proved a surefire drawback at the box office, so these “Ghosts” might attract younger viewers when it opens on May 1 against “Wolverine.” The New Line/Warner Bros. As written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and directed by Mark Waters, the movie clumps through one witless if not wince-evoking sequence after another without the relief of laughter. It’s even worse than it sounds as one can at least see potential for laughs about a man who runs from females as fast as he can following the climax of the only thing that interests him about women. The head-shaking concept here - you shake your head that anybody would develop the story, much less greenlight it - is that Scrooge the miser is now Connor the sexaholic confronted with the past, present and future of his bad behavior with women so he can reclaim the girl he always loved. Cast member Matthew McConaughey poses at the Mann's Village theatre in Westwood, California August 11, 2008. ![]()
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