Release Date:
Friday, March 1, 2002
What a difference a few years make. Obviously shot during the Web boom, 40 Days and 40 Nights has as its main characters a bunch of young, hip San Franciscans who work in cool, laid-back, casual-hip Web companies that afford them plenty of free time and easy money. Remember those days? Of course, today all of these characters would be unemployed and would most likely have joined the mass exodus out of the Bay area and back to their parents homes in the Midwest.
Despite the instant carbon dating, 40 Days and 40 Nights basic premise just never gets off the ground: A confused and angry young man decides to swear off sex of all kinds (including masturbation) for 40 days and 40 nights. Right there, theyve lost the male audiencenot having sex for that long usually happens with or without a conscious decision on the part of the average guy, so watching Josh Harnett casually give it up, while the hottest women in the world are throwing themselves at him smacks of well, pissing us the hell off. Its like a fat man turning away food while a starving man watches. Regardless, the movie never even answers the question why? OK, so hes been fucked over by a girl. By the time he meets and falls for cute-as-a-vintage-store-bought-button Shannyn Sossamon, the audience will be begging him to just give up his stupid vowwhich he cant do, you see, because, um thered be no more movie is the only reason we can come up with. Despite some decent jokes (Griffin Dunne manages to wring out some laughs), 40 Days will be forgotten the minute the house lights come up.
Despite the instant carbon dating, 40 Days and 40 Nights basic premise just never gets off the ground: A confused and angry young man decides to swear off sex of all kinds (including masturbation) for 40 days and 40 nights. Right there, theyve lost the male audiencenot having sex for that long usually happens with or without a conscious decision on the part of the average guy, so watching Josh Harnett casually give it up, while the hottest women in the world are throwing themselves at him smacks of well, pissing us the hell off. Its like a fat man turning away food while a starving man watches. Regardless, the movie never even answers the question why? OK, so hes been fucked over by a girl. By the time he meets and falls for cute-as-a-vintage-store-bought-button Shannyn Sossamon, the audience will be begging him to just give up his stupid vowwhich he cant do, you see, because, um thered be no more movie is the only reason we can come up with. Despite some decent jokes (Griffin Dunne manages to wring out some laughs), 40 Days will be forgotten the minute the house lights come up.