Don Jon

2013 "Everyone loves a happy ending."
6.5| 1h30m| R| en| More Info
Released: 27 September 2013 Released
Producted By: Voltage Pictures
Country: United States of America
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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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Drama, Comedy, Romance

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Director

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Voltage Pictures

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Cristina Azevedo To start off, the first time I saw this movie I was sixteen years old, so my opinion back then was that this movie was absolutely disgusting.This year I watched it again, only this time I am eighteen. And what I retained from it was a change, first Jon was like the name says a Don Jon but then when he meets this woman who show's him that he has to lose himself in others he completely changes! So what I think is that this movie illustrates very well our nowadays society, a huge part of men and women only think about sex, their own pleasure, instead of connecting and really feeling/living the moment as a unique experience not as thing that you do with however goes your way every Friday night. Suming up, this a movie worth watching, not one of my favorites but not bad either! It shows how most of the people act but only a few have the ability to realize what Jon did.
GregForstner WoW! I am writing this review as a way of crediting Joseph Gordon-Levitt (JGL) for his ambition as a director. We all know him for his stellar performances as an actor in movies such as Mysterious Skin and Looper as well as the Nolan masterpieces Inception and The Dark Knight Rises…. he has a great career going on there as he has repeatedly proved to be one of Hollywood's most versatile performers – he can play the villain, he can play the mastermind, he can play the sweetheart… here he has chosen to mime a dumb, incredibly superficial Don Juan of the 21st century. The main character Jon is certainly not on the bright side…. he keeps his life restricted to the same patterns and the same schedule as ever: working as a bartender, hitting on attractive women and getting them to bed, working out at the gym, going to church and confessing his sins and watching a lot of internet porn. It is the last-mentioned occupation that this movie revolves around, which is kind of revolutionary in itself. How do you make a movie about a topic as sordid and yet ordinary as internet porn? You have to give it to JGL – he had had an idea there and explored it thoroughly to come up with a film that investigates the consequences of excessive porn consumption. For Jon, it has become unquestioned everyday routine to raid the internet for porn whenever he feels the need. Thus, he jerks off multiple times every day and even does it after he banged a hot girl. When he gets emotionally involved with particularly attractive Barbara, played by Scarlet Johansson, he is – for the first time – confronted with the idea that his porn addiction might be something bad. But not only Jon clings to stereotypical images- his girlfriend has a hard time challenging her own romantic ideals, which are basically epitomized by corny Hollywood tearjerkers. This is a clever arrangement by JGL which endows the movie with a depth and reflectiveness you would not expect from a comedy with this plot line. The logical synthesis that transforms Jon into a decent human is represented by Esther, fabulously played by Juliane Moore. Jon comes across her during his evening courses at university and is clearly not interested at first, because she is much older and probably not attractive enough for him. However, the lady does not let go of him and tells him truths he cannot stand to hear …. at first….After the first viewing, one may not really appreciate the complexity that is underneath the surface. Initially the main characters Barbara and Jon embody clichés – he is the testosterone-filled alpha male who cannot bear criticism and she is the little princess who expects her boyfriend to do everything she wants. While Jon is gradually made to question his ideals, Barbara is not. As a consequence, Jon has changed at the end of the movie while Barbara hasn't. Another compliment to JGL for his unforced handling of a delicate topic. This is an actor who clearly does not shy away from sexual performances. He treats the topic in such an honest and relaxed way that the movie transports its message to all viewers…. highly recommended.
Tim Little I think I've used this summary for another of my reviews - but I couldn't think of anything better for this repugnant offering.I don't think I'll be giving anything away by saying that this is about a man who watches porn and his girlfriend doesn't like it... and that's it. Nothing else of interest happens, it isn't funny, it doesn't tackle any pressing conditions of modern man, the script is badly written and it isn't worthy of your time - despite some of the rather bewildering reviews to be found on here.Everything about most of the characters is repulsive - from their accents to their behaviours and their inter-actions with each other.It does raise three questions in my mind however.1. How does this adolescent drivel get made ? Whoever was able to persuade studio executives that this would be an entertaining contribution to the movie world ? 2. What possesses previously well established and respected actors to take part ie Johansson and, especially Moore in a film that continues the depiction of women as objects to be conquered by a greasy sleaze-bag in a dodgy nightclub ?3. Who would waste 1 hour 30 minutes (precisely) of their time watching this without wondering why they bothered ?Wrap it up in as much pretentious mush as you like (and critics have) but this is, indeed, risible drivel.For any of you who can't (or don't want to) keep up with the limited activity going on inside the main protagonists' head, his weekly confessions give you a regular handy update....yes really.
room102 Starts very well, very impressive for first-time feature writer/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Then in the middle it loses a lot of its potential (especially when Scarlett Johansson's character is revealed to be a total bitch, which makes absolutely no sense in Joseph's character wanting to keep her and acting like her dog, apologizing endlessly - even after they already split; It's like he totally lost his balls; I couldn't stand watching her character! Also, he ends up with a woman 20 years older than him, ahm... isn't that a LITTLE weird?). I wanted to like the film, but found myself doing some stuff while watching it.Also, I didn't understand whether Johansson's character was supposed to be Italian with this accent (first I thought she was supposed to be Jewish, but then you see her with a cross in one scene). It's funny that both lead actors, who are Jewish, are playing these very-Christian roles.I liked Tony Danza. Haven't seen him acting in years and he was hilarious in most of the scenes (the best one was when he meets his son's girlfriend for the first time - actually made me LOL). The whole interaction between him and his son (and their accent) is great.