40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

SPOILER ALERT!The first half of the movie is okay, the idea is fine but the ending is... I am shocked, the protagonist is clearly raped by his ex- girlfriend but in the movie it is shown as okay, RAPE IS NEVER OK! If it was the other way around and a man had sex with his ex-girlfriend while she was asleep and tied to a bed; he would be called a rapist and send to jail or the movie would never had been made because it says that rape is OK. The movie doesn't even discuss the issue, it is taken for granted that what happened was OK or legal, and he has to apologize for being raped afterwords. This movie shows how a man can be raped by a woman but say that it is no big deal. Another thing is, the movie goes too far with the protagonist's abstinences, suddenly there is naked women and boobs everywhere it is just too much and too vulgar. I apologize for typos, etc.

I guess young people need something to watch, but this was a catastrophe. Both Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon have talent and screen presence, but the script was embarrassingly bad. I shudder to think anyone took it seriously as true-to-life sounding expressions of sincerity. The hackneyed part of the obnoxious friend whose utterly un-friendlike behavior propels the plot more than the action of the principals makes this a difficult movie to watch. I pat myself on the back for having watched it from beginning to end; It almost feels like kind of a form of religious flagellation I suppose, not too much worse than the one the main character undertook.It never ceases to amaze me that intelligent studio people read scripts like this one and then green-light them.

I am so sick of seeing these boring comedies with no real story, no real laughs and horrible actors. Why waste your time.So a boy is obsessed with his ex girlfriend and he tries to get over her by having sex with lots of other girls, but he has trouble being with other women cause he's haunted by his ex. He then decides he's going to become celibate and all of his co-workers know he's a horn dog so they start a betting pool to see if he can make the entire 40 days he had set out to go.During this time he meets another girl and finds hes falling for her and he tells her he doesn't have sex which freaks her out, and meanwhile all the girls in on the bet try to seduce him and his ex comes back into his life and yada yada - predictable yawn-fest with no laughs.Josh Hartnett kinda sucks as an actor, hes a young talentless Tommy Lee Jones look-a-like and then we have co-stars like Shannyn Sossamon, who is a boring Angelina Jolie wanna be and Paulo Costanzo who is a younger looking annoying Jon Stewart look-a-like and then god forbid that I compare the horrible Maggie Gyllenhaal to anyone because no one is that special brand of ugly that she is - she looks like a grandma and isn't even 30.This movie was stupid and worthless, I never got his motives and I don't think it was cute and sweet enough to be considered romantic comedy, and it wasn't young enough to be a teen comedy and no one over 17 would wanna watch it, so who's the audience... 2 stars and thats being generous.

This movie is awful on so many levels, it's difficult to choose what to focus on. First of all, the main characters are horribly underdeveloped. Josh Hartnet's character hardly speaks throughout the movie, and while Erica, his new love interest, does a decent job expressing her "sensitivity" through her body language, her character is equally undeveloped. And while Hartnet's character may be a heart throb, do girls really throw themselves at guys so hard and fast that it's that difficult to turn down sex? If this movie was meant for teens, then the producers did young people a horrible injustice by making twenty-something life look so shallow. In the beginning of the film, he's getting tail like its on sale at Costco. The caricatured version of a hot, male bachelor's life makes the movie unbearably cartoonish. SPOILERS: Then, when Erica and Matt (is that Josh's character's name?) they fall in love so fast, after one date. This is problematic because Erica is SOOOOO upset when she learns about his "vow". Why wouldn't they just have a calm conversation about it and her ask why he's doing what he's doing? It's not like they know each other that well. OK, and the orgasm scene with the flower--meant to be hot, was embarrassing and contrived. I could imagine that scene being very hot, but something about the way the actors acted it made me blush in embarrassment—not because it was sexually arousing, but because it wasn't. Matt's ex-girlfriend is equally caricatured, and dumps him for a rich young partner at Stanley Morgan. Finally, SPOILERS: the RAPE SCENE AT THE END. What the hell?? I can't believe the producers put that in there—not because it wouldn't ever happen, but that Matt blames himself for it. Is Matt really that much of a screwed up catholic? And the final scene when Matt talks about how he just kept screwing up and screwing up. How did he "screw up?" everyone else seemed to--his jackass friends for betting on his celibacy, but not him for "taking a break." Finally, one last stab at the movie—it just wasn't funny. I laughed hard once (can't remember when), but that good chuckle didn't make up the piece of crap this film is.