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Don Jon (2013)

September. 27,2013
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| Drama Comedy Romance
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A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

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FuzzyTagz
2013/09/27

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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Zlatica
2013/09/28

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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Philippa
2013/09/29

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Caryl
2013/09/30

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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Ravinder Singh
2013/10/01

I am a teenager, or at least at the time of writing this review I am. I also have an addiction to porn, though not as severe as the lead character Don of this movie. I watched it was I thought this movie was made for someone like me. I wasn't disappointed, but what shocked me was that how good this movie turned out to be.I was aware of the fact that porn gives a very unrealistic portrayal of sex, but I didn't know that it could be so overwhelming that you could actually like porn more than real sex. I loved the character, Jon. His daily life may not be exactly relatable to me, but his problems feel real. The struggles he went through and the lessons he learnt at the end of the movie would provide a great help to me the rest of my life. And that's why this movie is so amazing- it sticks to its subject and doesn't leave you in a cliffhanger. Scarlett Johansson looks stunning as Barbara, and you might actually start to like her, but that's a trap our man falls into. She shines in her role. Joseph Gordon Levitt has done a stupendous job both as the actor and the director. The film holds my interest throughout its entire run, but maybe that's just me. Julianne Moore was the cherry on the cake, and so were Jon's father and sister.Overall, I'd recommend it to anyone be it a male or a female, teenager or an adult. The film isn't offensive and does justice to its topic.

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ThousandsOfFilms
2013/10/02

I put the reviews of Don Jon into 3 categories which, paraphrased are 1) "The film is shallow and sleazy and I hate it"; 2) "The film is shallow and sleazy and that's great because it's telling it like it is – it's an accurate "slice of life" story and I love it"; 3) "The first 95% of the film is shallow and sleazy, but at the very end, it rejects the sleaze for something better and I like it."#3 is what Gordon-Levitt (writer & director) was aiming for. However, that approach has been the standard out of Hollywood for decades and it fails. For the reviewers in categories in 1 & 3 above, they already recognize the shallowness and sleaze of that lifestyle. For reviewers in 2 above, by far the largest group, they view the 95% about shallowness and sleaze and that just reinforces their view that that's the way life is. What's needed is a romance movie that has heart and soul and beauty throughout – before the 1960s that was common especially in the '30s & '40s. But beginning in the '60s a downward spiral for "romance" movies started with each year being worse – each year the difference between Hollywood romance and porn shrunk with many describing most such fare as soft porn and many producers admitting they were aiming to produce soft porn as the best way to make money. Maybe that's why LaLaLand, which was a throwback to an earlier era, was so well received, but even it seemed like a pale shadow of Demy's films which in turn were a pale shadow of the romance films (and life) of the '30s & '40s. Gordon-Levitt is a very good actor. Regarding technique, he can write and is a good director. However, he doesn't seem to have anything to write about. Maybe shallowness and sleaze is all he's experienced, first or even second hand. His efforts have no heart or soul or depth. Modern action adventure movies are well done, but modern movies about the relationship between a man and a woman too often are just soft porn.The formula was wrong but to make it work, the audience should at the very least have been rooting for Jon to go with Esther (Julianne Moore) because of her inner beauty and heart, etc. – I knew in advance that's how it should go, but felt nothing except that she was annoying – not Julianne's fault – it was 100% the fault of the empty script. Jon only rises a few levels, out of about 50, from the shallowness and sleaze at the end as that's as high as Gordon-Levitt's vision can see. I don't think the new movie writer generation is capable of improving so the only solution seems to be to watch films from a different era.

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Ayush Singla
2013/10/03

The movie is a master piece made by (to my surprise) Joseph Gordon- Levitt. It's the most perfect movie which depicts the life of most of the people in today's world. The most satisfying for me was the length and ending of the movie. If the movie have been any minute longer then maybe it will be not perfect for me, but it was perfect.

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halo221
2013/10/04

I have mixed feelings about a movie. The film actually reflects our real life: the guy who addicted to porn because it is easy, accessible and acceptable, the girl, who is shallow, egoistic and think only about herself only. Jon's sister represents most of the people who cannot abandon their phones for five minutes. Jon's parent's demonstrates life of couple after thirty years of marriage: TV and arguments. Also, the movie touches religion, some people think that if they go to church, donate money and confess, all their sins will disappear. I think, it is not a comedy, it is a tragedy movie. It just shows how people are degrading. It made me really upset. At the end they show that there is hope. But it is like a thin thread that can pull main character from his problems.

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