As Good As It Gets

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Megan has got to be one of the most self absorbed, immature and boring characters ever put on film. Why is Alec, a drag himself, even dealing with this behavior? Yes, of course, they are snowed in.. and sex. What else is there besides those two boring characters, performed by two dull actors? Not much..

Problem I usually have with this kind of movies is that they portray love and romance in a completely unconvincing way. Yes, this type of movies can be fun to watch, but nonetheless they may mislead a part of audience into thinking there is anything true about this portrayal of "love".So I wonder what exactly is the goal of Two Night Stand and similar movies? Is it only to entertain you or create a certain ethos about love, in this case illusory one. If the only goal is entertainment, then Two Night Stand does an almost solid job by generating some awkward situations in which we usually don't find ourselves. If its goal is telling something true about love, then director did almost nothing since there's nothing about it at all in this movie.OK, so a girl wants to have some fun and so makes an on-line dating account. This guy and herself hook-up for a night at his place. A snowy storm hits the city. Two of them are now trapped together for a one more night, thus having a two night stand. Of course, they had sex and talk about sex and think about sex. Both of them are, of course, adorable: Alec (Miles Teller) is funny and has great jokes and Megan (Analeigh Tipton) is a cutely aggressive, open and attractive gal. Put them together and the result is a situation in which adorable fights and romance interchange.Miles Teller (Whiplash) played this spontaneous and funny guy Alec and did a good job for a not very demanding role. Some jokes he tossed where funny but his acting wasn't. Analeigh Tipton played a worn out cutie. I don't know why every romantic comedy has to have the same female character - attractive, talkative, fun, daring, smart, hurt, totally emancipated and in love with life. It must feel great being that way. Friends of hers are so chick-flick that I won't be dedicating any space to them. Since Two Night Stand is a low budget movie with generic plot and shallow story accompanied with superficial characters, the only way it could be any good, for a romantic comedy, is if there is some chemistry among actors. The good news is that there is chemistry among Megan and Alec which furnishes a delectable atmosphere; and this is the only good thing TNS has to offer.So to conclude: if you are a mature grown up, don't watch this. If you've seen many romantic comedies, you won't see anything you haven't seen before. If you are in your twenties and don't want to get serious, Two Night Stand may entertain you (if you're serious about relationships, you'll see how warp romance in TLS is); but for everything it teaches take with the pint of the salt.

It's a typical romantic comedy with a predictable plot. Actually, the movie was better than I expected, because most romantic comedies have a horribly stupid plot, unrealistic dialogue and flat main characters. There was not one scene in this movie, where I thought "omg, this is so stupid." I will probably forget about this movie in a short while, but for what it is, it's quite good. You can just relax and spend a nice evening watching this movie and you won't regret it. Don't think too much about it, don't analyze, don't look up for some deep meaning, because you won't find it. What I really liked about the characters is, that they are average and don't have any ambitions. Too much in this modern world is about being better, richer, achieving something, doing something important with your life and we hear about that crap every day. The guy has a point- since when are you supposed to love your job? No wonder that so many people get depressed these days. People should be more like these two- satisfied with what they got and just go with the flow.

I loved it. They touched on something that hasn't been done before. What would happen if you got stuck in a one night stand. Thanks to a New York blizzard they do. I actually laughed out loud at the awkwardness of the whole thing. Everything that could go wrong did, so they made lemonade out of it all and a really funny movie happened. Two run-of-the-mill under achievers really made for a perfect cast of misfits. Everyone around them is telling them to get it together but how do you do that when you have no idea how. Best bet is to find another in the same boat and hang on like hell. This movie was a fun ride on a coaster we have seen a million times. Not your typical rom-com but something new, fresh and just plain funny.