Don Jon


Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy in this unexpected comedy written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

I think this is one of those movies that I had heard/read too much great stuff about.  I kept asking myself why all the critics had raved about this.  It was definitely a good directorial debut by Godon-Levitt.  And it was not a bad movie by any means.  I liked a lot of the characters as well as the Italian family dynamics.  But about halfway through any funniness about the relationship life vs single life had kind of faded and the story progression kind of hit a wall.  

I would somewhat recommend people checking this out.  I think my viewing was ruined by high expectations.