The Last Kiss

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Melven L. @Melvenjdash Jun 6 This movie pissed me off See more Francisco S @FranciscoSerrano73 11/14/2024 St. Elmo's Fire without the fire. See more Liam C @RT45955420 06/07/2024 Worst romantic film ever! Unlikable characters, depressing story, and hard to watch. See more Rachel K @RT32929279 01/21/2024 A waste of time and just depressing. Not a good movie at all. This is definitely no Garden State. The only thing good is the soundtrack. See more 03/28/2021 This movie is *CONCERNING*. [*SPOILER ALERT*] I kept waiting for the redemptive arc, the positive message, the wake-up call for Zach Braff (who plays a morally repugnant version of JD from Scrubs). I am surprised by the good reviews of this movie, especially in comparing those reviews to other rom-coms that have well-rounded characters and some kind of decent moral that isn't "every relationship will make you absolutely miserable" or "all women are crazy lunatics." On a positive note: Casey Affleck gives a stellar acting performance and is the only redeeming character in the movie. Now, on to the negative notes, and there are many: the main character, Michael, played by Zach Braff is a 30 year old who has a life crisis when he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. I *think* we're supposed to feel bad for him because very clearly, his only option for coping with this crisis is to cheat on his pregnant girlfriend with a woman who is a sophomore in college. Telling his girlfriend he is understandably terrified is WAY LESS reasonable than creeping in the bushes at a college campus to try and score with the "little brunette" who caught his eye at the wedding last week. Michael assures us all (the audience, the other characters) throughout the movie that he IS SO IN LOVE WITH JEN, but he has a funny way of showing it, since he proceeds to lie, cheat, and ignore Jen's repeated pleas to leave her alone and SLEEPS ON HER FRONT PORCH for like, 3 days. Stalker-central. The portrayal of women in the movie is problematic, like a whole treasure trove for a feminist reading here. I mean, I thought we were a little more progressive in 2006, but clearly not. Every female lead in the movie expresses her anger through physical violence (for example, the main female lead brandishes a knife when she finds out Braff's character kissed another woman), and turns into a raging lunatic when she even *thinks* she's being cheated on. This wouldn't be such an issue if there was even ONE WOMAN who does not resort to physical violence, or who represents women positively whatsoever. (I mean, there was a woman who was in the first fifteen minutes that was portrayed positively because she didn't want kids and was good in bed, but she was booted as soon as she wanted to introduce a guy to her parents) I don't really understand reviews that say this is some kind of fresh take on modern relationships. Do older generations think this kind of relationship is healthy? That it's normal or okay? It's emotionally and physically abusive. Jen should leave Michael--that would have been the only good ending. Michael clearly does not take accountability for his actions or reflect whatsoever. He starts as an immature gaslighting [bad word here] and stays that way. The whole movie reads as if it was scripted by an infidelity apologist. I mean, you can look back at other movies around this time period and identify some sexism, but this goes whole hog. Note to people everywhere: if your relationship ever looks like this, leave and don't come back. You're not required to give serial liars and cheaters a second chance (and when they don't show any signs of remorse, you really shouldn't give them one anyway). This movie was depressing. I will treat it as a handbook for what not to do ever in relationships. Like ever. See more nefasto r @Nefasto 04/06/2019 ...and then, US of A decided to take a very good Italian film and take out the whole essence of it! What do you have you wonder? Half of the pleasure you'd enjoy watching the original. So don't lose time with this, don't be lazy and watch the original one. See more Read all reviews

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