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How do you cast Marisa Tomei, Judy Greer and Sarah Paulson, and waste all of them
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this must be set in an alternate reality because in this world women dont want mel gibson
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the premise of this film is that Mel Gibson has to electrocute himself multiple times to be a decent person
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as a Woman, what i Want is to never lay eyes on mel gibson’s face ever again
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If the creators of this film really knew What Women Want then they wouldn’t have created this film
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How much you wanna bet Mel Gibson wouldn’t be smiling like that if he knew Helen Hunt was Jewish?
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At one point, very-soon after Mel Gibson wakes up with his new ability to read the minds of women, he happens upon a poodle (a dog!) and manages to read its mind. It doesn’t happen again in the film, it’s only referenced once afterwards but it happened. What sane person doesn’t think it’d be interesting to figure out what dogs are thinking? Seriously. What the fuck? Doesn’t make sense. Instead Mel Gibson goes around using this new found ability to creep up on women, become their friends and have them be completely enamored by him. He also uses it to blow Marisa Tomei’s world. But the dog. No interest in that. No interest in studying them, and although I do…
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Yeah it’s a shitty movie and it’s not great but I had fun while watching it and it’s not boring and a little funny.
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This movie cost $70 million dollars before inflation. UPDATE: This movie cost more than Saving Private Ryan.
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Real ones know who the superior women mind reader is…first name Edward last name Cullen
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what women truly want is not men, it’s darcy’s perfect and classy two-store apartment in new york city
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Filmin son halkası kalan kısma göre fazla yavaş bi tempoda ilerliyor ve bence buda filmi biraz fazla kopuklaştırmış, yinede süperdi.
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I’ve actually seen this a few times. It’s pretty fun! Gets randomly serious in the third act and Mel’s character is just a bit *too* obnoxious at the start but other than that, yeah, good.
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A charming movie that was kinda therapeutic to me ??
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“If you know what women want, you can rule!” Reading the Title of this movie reminded me of that one book called ‘Everything men know about women’, which is blank inside. But I was pleasantly surprised by this film as it not only showed the romantic advantages of reading women’s minds, but also showed the father-daughter side of things, which really struck home. I really, really wish Lola had a bit more of a chance..she was a cutie (ㅅ´ ˘ `).
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dovrebbe essere reputato un fantasy perché nessun uomo si comporterebbe cosi
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women want to never have to rewatch this movie ever again but lowkey liked it kinda
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la vi hace tiempo y me acordé por un reel xd, pero es increible que solo así pueda a llegar a ser “empático” con una mujer un hombre cualquiera, nunca piensan en nadie mas que en ellos mismos
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Film bof Drôle mais rien de plus À regarder avec une meuf
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Bon film
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Very underrated
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I forgot how much I despise romcoms. Mel Gibson has to put him self in movies that build on his ego to make him seem likeable. 1 star just for Helen hunt.
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A classic on why should listen to women
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Guys this is a new fave rom com. The dad daughter redemption arc?! The soundtrack?! The female marketing scheme?! LOVELY
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se colocar no lugar dos outros é importante
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I actually enjoyed it, never thought i’d see mel gibson in tights
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pas ouf
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women do NOT want Mel Gibson
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It’s alright, nothing special
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and men still don’t really know what we want
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mel gibson is an interesting figure but this movie was goofy and ultimately did what it needed to as a stupid little rom com. 61/100
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Now I finally know what I want!
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Me pregunto porque eligieron a MEL GIBSON para que sea un hombre narcisista,ignorante con los sentimientos de los otros(as) ,idiota emocionalmente,mal padre,que solamente piensa en él mismo……Me pregunto porque será??????
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look a man learns empathy and the men who are watching it can’t figure out anything at all
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Type of movie li katmrg tgol tfrjti fihom
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Not sure if this is accurate cuz I’m not a woman
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Mel Gibson kann Gedanken von Frauen lesen. Ist teilweise ganz lustig aber teilweise auch schnulzig.
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C’est pourtant pas compliqué de savoir ce qu’on veut quand même
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Le film est hyper misogyne mais genre à un peu où ça devient un peu woke jsp
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this is NOT what women want zero chemistry
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muchos ven una película, yo ví un tutorial
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Casting Mad Mel aside, this movie gives strong creedance to women’s voices, too bad it takes putting a sexist cis white male near death in order for that to happen, instead of simply listening to women in the first place.
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helen hunt i think you should be allowed to kill mel gibsons character here
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Ehhh there’s something off
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Doctor sexo usa sus dones para dormir con la tía de Spiderman y se la papea
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This is a true “modern classic”
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I’m undecided on if I liked this one. Not what I’d usually watch. Cool character arc— dude gains emotional awareness. Mel Gibson is hilarious, though.
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жаль его не сбил бензовоз
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Early 2000’s romance/comedy films are goated. Think I will find more films like this, fun to watch. This one in particular had a good message to it. You never know when someone is going through something. Really glad he was able to read minds. Really cool movie.
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Surprisingly funny movie maybe the least progressive most progressive movie ever and it kinda rules?
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he had a patrick bateman vibe to him and it really put me off what women want is darcy’s apartment
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D’abord je voulais être Mel Gibson flic badass Après j’ai voulu être Mel Gibson Écossais révolutionnaire Puis j’ai voulu être Mel Gibson solitaire apocalyptique Peut-être qu’un jour je voudrais devenir Mel Gibson père célibataire féministe et à l’écoute Là je veux juste être Mel Gibson qui coffre vla les meufs
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Honestly, I just liked it for the inclusion of Frank Sinatra.
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Yeah it’s a cheesy romcom. But I really really enjoyed it. It wasn’t one of those stupid gimmicks which I hate, this one was unique and interesting. Writing was good, acting was good, can’t complain.
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A misogynist reforming?
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RESEARCH
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What women want is for this movie to be over. Holy shit this did not need to be 2 hours. The scene where Mel Gibson is freaking out at Central Park because he’s hearing all the women’s thoughts did have me laughing pretty hard.
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too much Israeli propaganda…
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I loved it
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made to be put on YouTube shorts
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Mel remember “it’s never too late to do the right thing”
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Really enjoyed!! If I had this superpower it would be game over – couldn’t hack it.
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can’t believe i had fun watching it very silly editing solid shots it has warmth to it
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why didn’t they explain why he could one day hear women’s thoughts that was annoying. also she was way too chill abt the fact that this man basically took over her job! no woman would ever act like that imao
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MmattyOMG 8 月 24, 2026
Terrible. But maybe the best representation of advertising agency work in film history.
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on l’a trop vite pardonné
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Boring et prévisible. Le gars devient l’alliée des femmes en deux semaines grâce aux fait qu’il puisse lire leurs esprits. Oublié le patriarcat et la misogynie dans lesquels il vivait, il est maintenant l’archétype de l’homme qui «comprend » les femmes. Spoiler : Même quand il avoue la trahison à son love interest (il s’est accrédité toutes ses idées, ce qui a amené au licenciement de cette dernière) , celle-ci lui pardonne car faute avouée à moitié pardonnée ???
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He scared me. personally not my beat
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В прошлом ревью насчет Апокалипсиса мне пришлось сказать что Мел Гибсон гений. Ну… Здесь он явно подлажал. Чего хотят женщины? Ну уж явно не смотреть 2 часа на то как Мел Гибсон сам на себя наяривает в роли гг и делает депиляцию…
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“Thanks for the yarmulke” – Mel Gibson soundtrack slapsss I’M A BITCH I’M A LOVER I’M A CHILD I’M A MOTHER The Apple logo used to be upside down when u opened the laptop??? I wanted to hate it… mostly bc it’s called ‘what women want’ and then stars 50yo Mel Gibson… but unfortunately I was pretty entertained. Obviously the ending would’ve been better if it just ended with her firing him but I know that would be a bit much to expect from the 90’s. Also, LOGAN LERMAN AS BABY MEL GIBSON IS SO FUNNY LOL
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Funny, Mel Gibson playing the lighter version of Professor X, movie was like a soap opera episode just they decided to make it a movie 🥱 Not very emotionally engaging at all, and truly this was one of the worst performance of Mel Gibson. Totally skippable folks!!
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Machista tiene que lidiar con mujeres y termina siendo feminista
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That movie was Somethin Stupid, but That’s Life. (Just a couple of Frank Sinatra puns for ya)
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интересный факт для съемок в этом фильме мэл гибсон поставил условие что бы его хотели не только все женщины но и мужчины (главное не евреи)
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Darcy boss lady. Le film m’a légèrement fais rire par moment. Le perso évolue et ça c’est cool
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Okay you know what in the grand scheme of romcoms with extreme “underlying” misogyny (aka every single rom com ever) this one is not even close to being the worst. I liked it a lot im sorry 😖
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If you know what women want, you can rule! This movie is completely a guy movie
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Sem desenvolvimento o início é instigante, mas o final deixa lacunas e sem profundidade
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Velfortjent 5 stjerne
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adulthood is romanticizing life with frank sinatra songs
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T-t-tía May????
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um filme tão escrito consegue criar um pe ao ponto de me fazer querer ler mente das mulheres tbm 😭
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wow this film was made more than 25 years ago – how come sexism and misogyny still exist?! what more could they have done…
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what women want is unlimited funds for retail therapy, not a deadbeat single father
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– Im gay🏳️🌈 – How🤨 gay🏳️🌈? – As gayest🏳️🌈 as it gets ✌🏻
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sou como o protagonista, mas nao leio pensamentos das mulheres e nem sou babaca so sou meio bixa mesmo
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Better than I expected it to be.
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this movie is just stereotypes upon stereotypes packaged into a half-baked, quite frankly, boring early 2000’s romcom. The male main character tries to “feel what it’s like to be a woman” through a box of female beauty products, and to reduce the experience of being a woman to simply what we look like is just so baffling to me. on a completely different note, the only woman of colour depicted in this movie is shown as vulgar and crass, even…
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I underestimated this soo much dudes. Mel Gibson with a film carrying performance (despite how ridiculously deep his gravely voice was). The leading man navigating every single scene to knit together a piece into my newly coined ‘90s Realism w/ Soft Magic’ sub-category. These glorious films from the 90s set in an entirely realistic world yet there’s a sprinkling of pixie dust to add a bit of magic into proceedings that enable our protagonist (and us viewers) to experience something…
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In my 2022 review of this—my first time rewatching it—I said: “A concept that puts into question a lot of the basic facets of human reality. Unfortunately concepts are out of work in this movie, and all you get is the dumbest story you can imagine.” As much as I appreciate the idea of a concept being out of work (to laugh at my own joke), I found I enjoyed this more upon this rewatch. Some films are difficult, like What Women Want starring Mel Gibson, and you must watch them three times to appreciate their value.
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now that we’ve “answered” the age old question of what women want, there is space to answer i believe the most important question of all “what do nonbinary tea want?”
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Ridiculous. But the ending especially blows
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Lustiges Konzept aber sehr viele Klischees. Also eigentlich ist jede Figur ein reines Klischee. Die Performances tragen den Film enorm und in jedem anderen Punkt ist er halt echt unkreativ. Trotzdem funktionierts für das was es sein soll, nämlich eine süße Romcom ganz gut
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the nineties were sooo dark. this is what they thought a hot guy was
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And this is why we don’t trust Pinterest’s “perfect movies for a cosy Sunday evening” nonsense
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Not addressed, Nancy Meyers is a genre in herself. We all know it is a feel-good movie. The kind of movie that talks about the things that have been ignored far too long or never got the attention they deserved. Also, one of the first in the business to stand as a source for “men written by women” This movie is all about feminism, and not the kind that wants to make men feel small about themselves. Not portraying women…
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comfort movie trop funny avec une grosse énergie des années 2000, c’est génial
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Doing a joke about how Mel Gibson is playing himself in this (a complete douchebag) would be far too predictable. It kind of feels like the least Nancy Meyers of all her films given its small fantasy elements made even more evident by the fact this is her only film so far that she didn’t write the script for. I mean, it’s just fine for what it is, but at least it is still technically a better alternative to Ladies First so there’s that.
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Nancy Meyers has an incredible ability to give horrible men a redemption arc. She makes us believe that men can change to be better partners. That’s how you know she writes fiction.
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This is one of my favorite movies ever. A protagonist with a great redemption arc, no awkward culmination, it had awesome mini plot-lines, especially the one with Erin, it makes me cry every time. Overall a masterpiece in my eyes.
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every time i watch this, i laugh at mel gibson poking his eye with mascara bc so real
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Had potential but missed the mark by a lot.
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Nancy… cavoli…avrei detto che il direttore fosse uomo
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No, no guy wants to fly or have super strong strength to lift the truck, we just want to know what women (well, if you are gay, what other men) think, want and do with us!
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секса все женщины хотят секса больше чем обладатели хуя не про все говорю
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The concept is very interesting where a sexist sleazeball suddenly is able to read women’s minds and discovers he isn’t all that. The problem with this film is they didn’t push the drama enough, nor the comedy. The stakes are never high enough to really get invested in the characters and Mel Gibson’s character never really gets his comeuppance, then the fact he can read minds but this isn’t pushed further than dick and sex jokes. It feels like it…
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Decent movie
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La película más subestimada del género. Mel Gibson se adueña totalmente de la película y nos entrega hora y media de entretenimiento ligero de calidad.
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I really enjoyed the movie but can’t explain with words.
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Helen you can do better babe
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A ver si lo he pillado… Le robas todas las ideas a la tía que te gusta, la despiden porque ya te tienen a tí, te sientes mal y decides decir la verdad y al final te pintan como un héroe por tener un mínimo de ética y moral a tus treinta y pico, sin tener ningún tipo de repercusión negativa… Ya, eeeeh, gracias pero no
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L’introduction ne donne vraiment pas envie de continuer le film, mais la suite finit par sauver le film du désastre. C’est long à se mettre en place et il y’a beaucoup de blagues qui ne sont d’aucune utilité. C’est trop sexiste même si c’est pour rire ça m’a mis mal à l’aise. Heureusement la suite grâce à la relation avec sa fille sauve véritablement le film. C’est pour moi le point émotionnel le plus important. Je trouve aussi que le…
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women want more girl dad mel gibson
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I’ll be more convincing than Mel Gibson when he apologized to the Jews. [cut to Mel Gibson giving a speech] Mel Gibson: I’m really, really sorry about your big noses. I’m really sorry about how greedy you are. But most of all I’m really sorry about you dirty, underhanded, backstabbing ways. Your number one dirty Jew fan, Mel Gibson.
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Shocker: it requires electric shock therapy to get men to have empathy
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Parfait dans son genre
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The Movie: a pretty straight concept. Khow about women in a classic way , Romance- love story , bonding with other women’s daughter friends and that was all. Could be fun for you if you feel interested in Main plot. ⭐⭐⭐ The Experience: so just saw reel of whan man want and then downloaded this what women want s now I am not gonna try the other one there are basically same but different. Watched it before sleeping fully tired so it was good just watch it and and all but got boarded at many moments so ok ok ⭐⭐
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man finds out what women want, takes an hour and 30 minutes to do anything they want
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Les commentaires des gens sur ce film sont très drôles: entre ceux qui éteignent Mel Gibson (il a fait quoi de mal ? je suis vraiment curieux pour le coup, les gens lui vouent une haine) et les premier degré qui ne comprennent ni l’humour ni la caricature et prennent le scénario au sérieux…
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I loved the part where the guy ruined her life and then learned empathy and fixed it and was a hero and still got laid
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Not what I expected fs
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clearly I don’t understand the person mel gibson is based on these reviews. Besides the mere inconvenience of how apparently misogynistic he is the film, I have to admit, was good and funny, simultaneously. I felt it was rushed because there wasn’t really a closing factor. I liked Erin’s character and her story but the rest, apart from shitting and men, I didn’t like that the thought were solely focused on him and other men. The idea and the concept was cool, nevertheless.
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Quality 4/10 Entertainment 9/10 Memorability 3/10 5.3/10
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biopic of my life
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Corny asf
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Men need to read the minds of women to become decent people
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just one of those movies
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Cara o estrago q um homem faria na vida real com isso não ta escrito
- Synopsis
- Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
- Director
- Nancy Meyers
- Writer
- Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Icon Productions, Wind Dancer Films
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English, French
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 127 mins
- USA13 Dec 2000
- USA15 Dec 2000
- Greece05 Jan 2001
- Australia08 Jan 2001
- New Zealand11 Jan 2001
- South Korea13 Jan 2001
- Argentina18 Jan 2001
- Taiwan20 Jan 2001
- Singapore24 Jan 2001
- Japan27 Jan 2001
- Philippines31 Jan 2001
- UK02 Feb 2001
- Netherlands08 Feb 2001
- Italy09 Feb 2001
- Belgium14 Feb 2001
- Germany15 Feb 2001
- Austria16 Feb 2001
- Turkey23 Feb 2001
- Czechia08 Mar 2001
- Brazil09 Mar 2001
- Denmark16 Mar 2001
- Sweden23 Mar 2001
- Hungary29 Mar 2001
- Bulgaria30 Mar 2001
- Norway06 Apr 2001
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