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Jennifer Garner was great as his female lead, managing to hold her own against him during his "chauvinist phase". Here he seemed entertaining enough, although he had a strange accent (almost Texan in places), which may have been his natural accent or a bizarre acting decision. I'd never watched a Matthew McConaughey film before but I had heard negative opinions of his `acting skills'. His uncle explains that if he continues down thus path that he will die alone and that three ghosts will visit him and help him change his ways. He goes to his brother's wedding rehearsal dinner and after insulting many of the guests, he finds himself visited by the ghost of his uncle (Michael Douglas) who was the inspiration behind his womanising ways. Despite his ungentlemen-like behaviour, he still has much luck with the ladies and finds himself in many romantic trysts. Matthew McConaughey plays Connor Meade (not Ebenezer Scrooge!) who has been a notorious flirt and playboy since his early teens, with such misogynist behaviour as breaking up with three girls at once, on a conference call. Besides the main concept of three ghosts visiting someone to change their ways, the film doesn't share many similarities with its source material, mainly due to the fact it is a romantic comedy.
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Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past adds itself to the long line of remakes or reimagining's of this classic tale, but rather than having the lead character learn the error of his ways about his cruelty and miserly conduct, we have a womaniser learning how to respect women through the aid of his deceased playboy uncle and `ghost girlfriends'. Well, garned, dashed it all, who knew !!Ĭharles Dickens' novel, `A Christmas Carol' is one of those literary works that has not only been adapted for screen several times, but because is such a powerful story about redemption that resonates with people, it has also been updated and given contemporary twists in productions such as: Blackadder's Christmas Carol, Scrooged and The Muppet's Christmas Carol, to name a few. Spoiler alert (not) what starts out looking like an anthem to life as a single guy turns into exactly the opposite. Emma Stone of La-La Land makes a superb cameo as his very first conquest but for me it's Michael Douglas as the aging roue uncle cum girl-chat-up mentor, who steals the show.
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Slick Matthew McConaughey is the playboy and Dallas Buyers Club co-star Jennifer Garner, with her cooky girl-next-door looks, the erstwhile girlfriend he is trying to woo once again. While it will probably irritate the hell out of feminists with the archetypical male lead there is more to this than simply a rom-com. A light-hearted rom-com which makes a stab at deeper meaning with heavily laden allegory, christian and otherwise. Rampant playboy (McConaughey) meets ghosts of girlfriends past, present and future at his brother's wedding preparations in a modern twist on Charles Dickens' age old tale. Well worth it for some well chiselled, but pretty obvious, chuckles. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.