Ehirerapp Waste of time

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Desertman84 How To Lose Your Lover is a romantic comedy that stars Paul Schneider, Tori Spelling,Poppy Montgomery and Jennifer Westfeldt. The story is about a biographer that decides to leave Los Angeles and restart his life on the East coast who suddenly meets the woman of his dreams before leaving.It is the feature debut of writer,producer and director Jordan Hawley.Owen,played by Schneider,wants to be a serious writer.He wants to move from Los Angeles since the only work he can get is co-writing trashy autobiographies for people who'd prefer he omit the unseemly truth.He thinks L.A. is keeping him from achieving his romantic and professional goals.Unfortunately,he can't bring himself to leave. After an earthquake,Owen's manipulative, unfaithful ex-girlfriend to tell him she wants nothing more to do with him.This inspire him to finally decides to get out of town. He arranges to write a biography for a Princeton physicist and then he tells all his friends and acquaintances the brutal truth so that he has every reason to leave L.A. He admits to Stephanie,played by Tori Spelling, that his other house mate, Allison,portrayed by the beauteous Poppy Montgomery, has always found her attractive, but he neglected to tell the former this because he doesn't like her. But he can't bring himself to say anything unpleasant to his promiscuous bisexual best friend, Allison. Owen is at the airport, ready to board his flight, when he runs into Val,played by Jennifer Westfeldt,who happens to be an attractive acquaintance of his ex. She's seeing off her former boyfriend and invites him to have coffee which caused him to miss his flight. There's an immediate attraction. But still,he is determined to leave town especially now that no one wants him around, but he has to take a few days to prove to himself that things would never work out with Val.Will Owen and Val end up together? The romantic comedy had its moments but it was boring most of the time.There was a feeling that some instances were contrived.Also,the most jokes weren't really that funny and the story wasn't even engaging as it was far from being well-written and well-developed. What's worse is that the ending came out of nowhere. Although I have a feeling that the movie tried to be an uncommon romcom,it unfortunately made the story somewhat preposterous and insult to the viewer's intelligence. Honestly,I felt that the romance between Owen and Val served as a misdirection as the viewer got engaged with the development of their relationship and yet it tries to surprise him at what going to happen in the end.And the worse did happen.At the conclusion of the movie, they don't it end up together due to some preposterous reason.When a writer uses misdirection instead of the plot device,then the viewer definitely feels cheated. What makes up for the poorly conceived story is the performances of the actors and actresses particularly Paul Schneider and Jennifer Westfeldt.I think that they did their best to make sure that the movie was still entertaining and far from being terrible.I still managed to give this a 7 out of 10 rating because of it.

Amy Adler Owen (Paul Schneider) is an erstwhile writer who lives in Los Angeles. He loves the city but he is having trouble on two fronts. One, his work is mainly "ghost writing" sensational crimes, like the exploits of a set of homicidal twins. At present, he is working on the biography of a former astronaut (Fred Willard). And, second, Owen is having trouble in the romance department, too. He is still in love with his ex, Eileen, when an earthquake shakes the town, scaring everyone. But, to add insult to injury, Owen's former flame tells him that the quake has led her to conclude that any reconciliation between them is out of the question. Mightily depressed, Owen decides to burn every bridge in LaLa Land and move east. Thus, in short order, he says goodbye to his great pal, Allison (Poppy Montgomery) and her girlfriend (Tori Spelling), gives up his apartment and smokes a reefer right in front of his old AA group. He also sells his car. But, when he arrives at the airport to fly to New Jersey and begin his new life, wouldn't you know, a pretty woman, Val (Jennifer Westfeldt) is there, kissing a man goodbye. Since she is a friend of Eileen's, he strikes up a conversation when they are alone. It is there he learns that she has broken up with her boyfriend (one last kiss for good measure, it seems) and is available. Owen likes what he sees and so does Val. Yet, how can return to the city of Angels when he has just given the town the raspberry? Nevertheless, Owen u-turns and bunks with Allison while his relationship with Val is beginning. Since time is of the essence, Owen puts Val to the "test", trying to see if she will find a problem with his worst habits. What will be ahead for these two? This was such a delightful romantic comedy! It has zest, imagination, and humor in abundance. It also has a very capable cast, with Schneider, Montgomery, Willard, Spelling, Westfeldt, and everyone else doing great work. Quite nice as well are the sets, costumes, and production values. Most importantly, the writing and direction are downright wonderful, far above the norm in tinseltown. If you adore funny tales of love, get this one without delay. It wrote the book on "how to have a fun night in"!

DarkVulcan29 Did any of the actors put any thought while reading the script. Or they just had nothing better to do with there time. I thought How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days sure had its perks. This movie started out good, a good Hollywood setting, about the adventures and misadventures of romance in L.A. But as the film went on it just really got bad, and annoying to sit through. My thoughts on this is, who wrote this stupidity anyone dares to call it self a movie script. The characters seriously become very unsympathetic. Poppy Montgomery and Tori Spellings characters make this film very unwatchable. Not that they are bad actress's, they just deserve better then this.

Conrad Billings Oh boy. Another in a looooooong series of movies penned and directed by Hollywood types who want to stick it to Hollywood. Whoever told writers, "write what you know" should have added the qualifier, "only if it is entertaining." I can only wait for the doofus who put this lame hunk of junk together to produce a movie about reality TV.Now let us place blame where blame is due for this horrid waste of time.Paul Schneider doesn't seem to have a subtle bone in his body and instead of being funny, his antics are tiresome, bordering on the offensively unfunny.Jordan Hawley - wrote and directed this trash. I'm sure that if anyone besides myself had bothered to watch this, he'd be getting honorary Razzies for the rest of his life.