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Love Jones (1997)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
6/24
6/24:
There were a lot of cheesy movies released in 1997, and Love Jones is among them.
The sex-obsessed screenplay is awful. So are the characters. Larenz Tate and Nia Long have virtually zero
chemistry. The story has been done hundreds of times before, going back to
The Way We Were with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. That being
said, Love Jones was already over after the first breakup.
I checked whether or not writer-director Theodore Witcher had done more films. It turns out to be one more
after this, signaling the end of his Hollywood career. The poems by the lead characters? Gee, they're so bad
that I laughed at every line. She even threw her book in the trash can.
Larenz Tate looks uncool when he smokes. Then, Nia Long undermines herself when she decides to adopt his habit.
There are a lot of cringeworthy scenes, but the worst is the final one when Larenz Tate went outside in the
pouring rain for Nia Long instead of meeting her inside the club. No matter what, I know their characters will
break up in the near future.
All in all, I hope never to see anything like Love Jones again.