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2.5/4
Going the Distance (2010)
MovieAddict - wrote on 01/30/2012
"Maya! Statue!"
Drew Barrymore is Erin, a lonely journalist who encounters Garrett (Justin Long), a talent scout for a record company, on the night he is drowning his sorrows after splitting up with his girlfriend. (There is a lesson in here guys: When your girl friend says she does not want a gift for her birthday, she definitely WANTS a gift for her birthday!) The two start a casual relationship knowing it will only last 6 weeks until her internship ends and she has to get back to San Francisco.
Fast forward six weeks Garret and Erin realize that they want more, and what follows is a romantic comedy chronicling the problems they encounter while trying to conduct a long distance love affair. Determined to keep the romance alive they try everything making full use of the benefits …
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2.5/4
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PsychoKing1227 - wrote on 02/03/2011
An ultra-hip modern day chick-flick, "Going the Distance" was not as wretched as I originally assumed it would be. Justin Long and Drew Barrymore have a great amount of rapport together on screen, despite the age difference, and the chemistry just seems to work. The comedy was very well done, but not quite as well done as the drama side of the story. The hardships and suspicions that would naturally come of a long-distance relationship seem to be manifest in a very real way, often leaving the two central characters in tears. The ideals of workplace goals also is well-lit, offering the question, is a career more important as a dream or as a reality? A wonderfully bright adult love story, "Going the Distance" was a treat to watch and experience.
Rating of
2/4
Buy the soundtrack, skip the movie
Nerva - wrote on 01/20/2011
Passable but mediocre. While I usually love Drew Barrymore she was dreadful here. It's clear they were going for the Judd Apatow approach of raunchy as funny but it does not work here at all. I don't pretend to know what an actress like Drew Barrymore is actually like but her attempt at being raunchy just comes off as extremely forced, as if she's actively trying to change her image and it just doesn't work, she can't pull of this character at all. Not to mention I don't know if they were trying to do this but she looks very old here, way beyond her years and the way that I have seen her look in press photos and other movies from around the same time. Where as Justin Long looks like a teenager. This might be a case of the worst makeup artist on a movie ever for what they did to poor …
