Love and Other Drugs Review Thread (Use Spoiler tags)

[Batman1980]

Plot Summary: Judy Greer will play a pharmaceutical company trainee instructor, based on a novel by Jamie Reidy about a Viagra salesman.
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Director: Ed Zwick
Screenwriter: Charles Randolph
Starring: Judy Greer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Gabriel Macht, Hank Azaria, Oliver Platt
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Hope Greer can handle it but I trust Hathaway and Zwick to give me a good movie.

[The_Basterd]

I heard one of the problems with the film is there is to much nudity (multiple topless and full frontal scenes).

Damn that Anne Hathaway...

[MyBlu-rayBrotherEd]

Originally Posted by The_Basterd

I heard one of the problems with the film is there is to much nudity (multiple topless and full frontal scenes).

Damn that Anne Hathaway...

I hope it's her and not Oliver Platt!

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by MyBlu-rayBrotherEd

I hope it's her and not Oliver Platt!

Nobody here wants to see the hefty Platt's junk?

[MyBlu-rayBrotherEd]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

Nobody here wants to see the hefty Platt's junk?

He probably hasn't seen his own junk in years.

[The_Basterd]

Originally Posted by MyBlu-rayBrotherEd

I hope it's her and not Oliver Platt!

Oh. It's definitely her and from descriptions it sounds awesome!

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by The_Basterd

Oh. It's definitely her and from descriptions it sounds awesome.

She's still one of the hottest brunettes in Hollywood and it's been too long since I've seen her in theatres so it's definitely time to see her in a raunchy role.

[The_Basterd]

I'm seeing Love & Other Drugs at midnight.... basically for one reason besides the movie being good.... heheheh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-te0pEIa9U

[KilloWertz]

The critics aren't being too kind to this, but I don't care and it is still a must see for me since I'm a big Anne Hathaway fan. Since I rarely see anything in the theater, it will have to wait until the Blu-ray.

[The_Basterd]

Ok, I saw it at midnight. It was surprisingly 80% full in a huge theater. I really enjoyed it. The film was hilarious yet very emotional at the right times. Anne Hathaway gave a fantastic performance and Jake did a great job too. His brother in the film stole every scene he was in. He really had the entire audience laughing. Anne and Jake show real believable chemistry, which helps even more since they played husband and wife before in Brokeback Mountain. Jake's sleaze-bag who gets every girl and will lie to get what he wants, but he grows as a person throughout the film. You really felt for Anne's character and you get to really know what Parkinson's disease is and how married couples deal with it. You really feel her and your afraid her illness will tear theme apart. The dialogue was very smart and humorous and the film itself flowed nicely.

The movie had lots of nudity, even besides Anne. Anne's NUMEROUS nude scenes made the movie for me. WOM from males who's girlfriends dragged them to this should help once more men are aware of the nudity in the film lol. Heh, I bootlegged every Anne Hathaway nude scene on my iPhone 4. She looks unbelievable in the film and the hottest Ive ever seen her!

The film was very enjoyable, but it was a somewhat generic rom. Com, but what makes this difference is they play Anne's illness into the story and the big Viagra angle never got old and was great.

7.5/10, bumped to 8/10 for Anne Hathaway.

[iam1bearcat]

possibly seeing this tonight with the gf. super excited. been looking forward to this for awhile now

[doller]

I haven't watched it and never heard about this movie..

[Minimejer05]

Decent movie. Saw it earlier today. The only problem was that it does feel very generic. Id say a solid 7.5

[Holmes]

In Love & Other Drugs, a group of future pharmaceutical salesmen, one played by Jake Gyllenhaal, are taught to not just sell their product's advertised purpose (to, perhaps, alleviate mood disorders or reduce fever), but also drop hints regarding its other potential benefits, however untested or unethical. I wonder if this scene was based on a screenwriting seminar once attended by the trio of credited writers, including Edward Zwick, who also directed (a return to America AND near modern times for the director of Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai, and Blood Diamond). Part Thank You for Smoking-esque satire, part sentimental romantic drama, with several long sex scenes, and a dash of low-brow humor, Love & Other Drugs' title could be Love & More Than a Few Other Genres. It feels designed not to deliver a single artistic payload, but to please each demographic, to comment on a number of distinct issues, at times in depth and at times in passing.

This is a film where the screenwriters are compelled to remind the audience over and over the protagonist is "good"--he can sell, sell sell with superhuman charm and endurance, and the sex he has? Sensational. Ocean's Eleven and its sequels often did this with humor; Love & Other Drugs does it with a straight face. I bet Jake Gyllenhaal's character loves Dos Equis. The fact the sex seems so fantastic, and so choreographed, undermines its purpose. It doesn't feel "brave" or "intimate" so much as, "Aren't our stars hot? Here, we'll prove it. Again! Again! Wait, wait, wait, cut, cut, we need more dramatic moaning."

Also, the film, overburdened with (sub-)plots and characters, can't help but feel a bit schizophrenic. I, for one, was more drawn to the scenes following Gyllenhaal as he navigates the fast-paced, strange world of drug samples and doctors (customers). There's a fantastic scene near the end where a general practitioner (Hank Azaria) reveals he once saw his profession as a higher calling, but is now disillusioned by noncompliant patients and unfair insurance companies. The romantic drama side of the film is fine, landing a few poignant punches, yet it feels far more familiar. Just another tale of an he attractive, career-first, "shallow" man who meets a beautiful, wounded woman who seems to exist just to save him, etc., etc. Except every scene in Garden State didn't end with a cut to Zach Braff and Natalie Portman lying naked and drenched in sweat in each other's arms.

The acting is, for the most part, top-notch. Gyllenhaal puts his movie-star charm to good use, as does co-star Anne Hathaway, who plays her vivacious character with a dynamic blend of anger and warmth. In a year of strong performances, I'm not sure either is deserving of Oscar consideration, but, still, both deliver what is expected of them and more. Oliver Platt also deserves praise. He seems to be giving an interesting performance as a pharmaceutical sales vet who longs for a promotion which would bring him to Chicago; alas, his character is never explored beyond the superficial.

Love & Other Drugs is set in the '90s for a specific reason (hint: the introduction of a certain blue pill), and it has minor fun with the decade, including retro cell phones and "period" cuts by Spin Doctors and Fatboy Slim. In general, the film is a pleasant, yet also frustrating experience. The performances are strong, it's well-shot, certain scenes (most involving Gyllenhaal's character pushing drugs--the legal way) are brilliant, etc., but the film never finds itself, never finds its center. It's good, not great.

***

[JLant19]

I thought this was a decent film. i would def wait til its out on blu though and rent it.

3.5/5

[The_Basterd]

Originally Posted by JLant19

I thought this was a decent film. i would def wait til its out on blu though and rent it.

3.5/5

So rounded to 4 stars on the poll?

[The_Basterd]

So Maxim Magazine runs a website Egotastic.com and they took my bootlegged videos of nude Anne Hathaway and posted them on their website along with screencaps. Their video of it is not correct. The video when presented in quicktime is a full screen video, but if you upload it to dailymotion it distorts the video and you don't get the full view of everything. At least the screencaps/images have it right. If you want a full view of the first clip in the video, post your email and I'll show you the quality it was meant to be seen in.

I feel so special!

[JLant19]

Originally Posted by The_Basterd

So rounded to 4 stars on the poll?

i would actually round down to 3.

[The_Basterd]

Originally Posted by JLant19

i would actually round down to 3.

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by JLant19

i would actually round down to 3.

Now that's just mean.