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Dreadful film - little more than a Jon Favreau wet dream


Honestly: what a crock of *beep* Ripping off the popularity of TV cooking shows / chefs and then asking the audience to believe that this charmless, self-centered, slobbish, oaf of a deadbeat dad is irresistible to 2 women at least 20 years younger and 2000 times hotter than him. I know many women aren't as focused on looks as men are (sweeping generalisation I know!), but this guy had all the charisma of a tennis racket and less than a quarter of the sex appeal.

A totally unbelievable film featuring an unlikeable lead character who treated his son, his colleagues and his 'squeezes' as bit-part players in his story. One of the worst films I've seen in quite a while.


"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" - Henry David Thoreau

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Seemed to me that Molly had some sort of food/cooking fetish, perhaps Inez is the same?

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Blown up garbage

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Yeah, wasn't impressed. I only watched it because I was on a transcontinental flight and a few other movies were dreadful I started and I couldn't bear to sit through Mad Max. The women were far too hot to be interested in this guy. The plot was super predictable. Too much twitter integration/product placement. They could have shaved 30-40 min off this film easily. The music scenes were so boring and unnecessary. Trying to slip in some starving musicians into the film unnecessarily. Didn't flow with the rest of the film. Where did his ex wife get the money for that home? Wow. RDJ was ok, but he was just a small side note and almost unnecessary to be in the movie.

This film reminded me of some others I've seen in recent years that had very similar plots, but without the food truck..Could have been more tolerable at 90min or less.

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Neither of these women are "20 years younger" -- in fact, Vergara is only five years younger than Favreau...

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The main thing about the movie was the man following his dream or reasserting himself within a dream he already is part of. Finding inside what brought him to being a chef in the beginning. You are concentrating too much on the character depiction side of it, which you were not happy about. This is a comedy, a very unreallistic comedy that had an ambitious goal of showing a lot in a short time period. It was not meant to be reallistic, but rather fun, quick-pacing way of looking behind the scene of the food-trucking business. I think, and most people will agree, Favreau did a lot of work in getting that to the viewer and he succeeded.
As for what women like, I am sure every time you see a successful and driven man who has the balls to follow his dream, you are surprised at the gorgeous woman that loves him and this won't change until you become that man yourself.

Respectfully,
Yusif

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This film is not fun, it's really tedious and badly conceived. I can't believe millions were wasted making this crap. Movies about cooking do not work. Hollandaise is lumpy - big deal. This chef has a food truck - big deal. He is annoying and tiresome, much like my upstairs neighbor who is opening a restaurant. I couldn't care less.

I thought about becoming a chef, but thankfully got over that. The chef character in this film is not remotely attractive, in any way. As a straight woman, I'd rather have Sofia Vergara, thank you.

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This film is not fun, it's really tedious and badly conceived. I can't believe millions were wasted making this crap. Movies about cooking do not work. Hollandaise is lumpy - big deal. This chef has a food truck - big deal. He is annoying and tiresome, much like my upstairs neighbor who is opening a restaurant. I couldn't care less.
I thought about becoming a chef, but thankfully got over that. The chef character in this film is not remotely attractive, in any way. As a straight woman, I'd rather have Sofia Vergara, thank you



totally the whole "chef" thing is/was just a fad/phase/craze invented by tv
back like in 04" many people who are and or want to be a "chef" or have a "high" ranking job/title are probably compensating or overcompensating for something...


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Film was utter *beep* Guy obviously has no idea how to write a film. Completely unconvincing in almost every regard. From the hot wife and hot girlfriend, to the way he reacted about the critic's review, to the way the Internet responded to a chef losing his *beep* to his friend just magically showing up in Miami to work on his food truck, to people thinking his ostensibly ordinary food is amazing, and so on. I didn't hate it but it was just *beep*

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Damn right! This movie was shieeeeeee

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It was an atrocious movie - self indulgent, unrelatable, meaningless, trite and worst of all - boring.

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I agree completely. The ending was also trite and unrealistic, it came out of left field. What a terrible movie.

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