Don Jon

Gordon-Levitt won't take safe for an answer. So Don Jon tends to stumble as it finds its feet. Still, you leave this movie feeling had at instead of had. The experience is elating.

A sharp turn on the romantic comedy, a movie about flawed people doing flawed things, often in funny fashion.

Don Jon deserves praise for wearing its message lightly and yet for daring to present such a lecture in today's Internet-drenched environment. Gordon-Levitt may be blithe in discussing pornography, but his movie nonetheless asserts that porn is addictive and destructive, that it intrudes on intimacy, and that it short-circuits the capacities for interaction and also, ultimately, for pleasure. That's a serious subject and a committed viewpoint, handled with wit and intelligence.

In Don Jon Gordon-Levitt hasn’t made a great movie. But he has made a fun one, short and sweet, with a third act punch that is so to-the-point it’ll take your breath away.

Well made as it is, Don Jon suffers from a half-baked scenario that never manages to make its characters as intriguing as the problems that afflict its protagonist. It's a movie that shows better than it tells, even as it leaves much up to the imagination.

To Gordon-Levitt’s credit, he neatly sidesteps the moralizing message his film seems to be building toward. The hero’s problem is not that he jerks off too much; as articulated by widowed, pot-smoking classmate Julianne Moore — the only real human being onscreen — it’s that he’s never actually connected to another person through sex.

Crude, repetitive and rigorously single-minded, the popular actor’s writing and directing debut lays it all on a bit thick, as the few points the film has to make are underscored time and time again.

a best man made a movie becuase this is what people do for dating these day i actually find it true . and it funny how joe gordon reacts to porn . i love this film

Don Jon is a nice, frothy, easy to watch flick about, uh, porn addiction. There were a few decent character twists and the easy charm of Gorden-Levitt cannot be faulted here. I also like that porn isn't treated like the devil but far more honestly. That said, a little more depth and a slightly less pat ending would have made Don Jon a bit more satisfying.

Jon Martello has earned himself the nickname ‘Don Jon’ amongst his buddies due to his ability to pick up virtually any woman he wants, unfortunately for him he gets more pleasure from watching porn than he does with any of the women he takes home. One night he meets the stunning Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) and, having at first failed to go home with her, soon finds himself falling in love. Could she finally be the one to live up to his expectations? The writing and directorial debut of Joseph Gordon-Levitt Don Jon is slickly put together and certainly makes some interesting points about the way people’s expectations can warped by modern media, even if they are perhaps slightly exaggerated. The cast, including Gordon-Levitt, Johansson and the always reliable Julianne Moore are excellent throughout helping to keep things grounded. Despite these positives I did find that Don Jon made for a rather uncomfortable watch on a number of occasions (how many scenes do we need to see of someone ****?) and Don Jon doesn’t come across as a sympathetic, particularly early in the movie, making it difficult to really root for him. The ending also seems a little too rushed and neat to make for a truly satisfying climax to the story. Don Jon mat not be complete success but it is a promising start to Gordon-Levitt’s career behind the camera that, at the very least, shows he is willing to make movies that veer away from the mainstream.

J’ai lu de prime abord le titre en un seul mot et j’ai compris « mon porno dans mon donjon ». Avec des chaînes et des fouets, le nec plus ultra en somme… Mais revenons à notre « Don » John, Don Casanova qui lève de la jambonneuse comme personne, qui soulève de la fonte… et qui mate du porno. Et qui va à l’église se confesser chaque semaine (!?) : « pardonnez-moi mon Père, je me suis branlé 37 fois cette semaine, béni soit mon navigateur ». Et là je ne suis pas sûr qu’il soit si second degré que cela, ce film à la con… le gars est un putain de faux cul (béni) comme ****’importe, Don Jon demeure drôle de temps à autre, bien filmé et bien orchestré tout en démontrant (de manière décidément peu subtile) l’hyper-sexualisation de la société actuelle. Il montre aussi que la bombasse haut-de-gamme qu’on peut éventuellement lever après moult pathétiques efforts est un mauvais coup en plus de s’avérer casse-couilles comme c’est pas permis. Il vaut mieux se tourner éventuellement sur de la milf défraîchie et commencer le sevrage : le porno c’est tabou, on en viendra tous à bout ! C’est donc là le truc qui gêne : ce politiquement correct débordant de partout qui avançait à pas masqués mais qui déborde tellement qu’à la fin il en apparaît encore plus hypocrite en plus d’être nunuche et concon. Dommage, c’était rigolo comme sujet, a priori.

A movie as vacuous and empty as its lead character. Utterly lacking in charm, interest, intrigue, basically any of the ingredients that make a good movie. I've seen fellow commentators label this movie 'too intelligent' for most people - not only massively condescending but a cheap way of defending a movie which just lacks any sort of spark for the entirety. The subject matter (porn addiction, sexualization of society, etc etc) has rich potential, but this potential is poorly realised and, ultimately, the package in which the subject matter is presented and portrayed is so poor that the potential is all but ruined. I would not recommend this movie to anyone though I imagine the a-list cast will draw people in regardless.