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Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

sy-968-728030 The one star vote is being too generous.Between the excess hipster lifestyle represented in Silver Lake to the worst casting and plot in the history of movie-making - this film is the epitome of S * & T!I would have liked to end my review on this crap at the previous paragraph but IMDb won't let me. We have to have 10 lines - but because I hate hate this film so much it's so very important to me that it is heard... Jamie Pressly is so annoying - she really needs to just stick to her stereotype roles. I'm sorry - she just is not meant for drama. Her nose won't let her.Robin Thicke - no words - except - just STOP & that hair-do!!!I want to cry because it's really THAT BAD...

zooshe The movie definitely had a slowness to it. And yes, she could be viewed as an "unlikeable" main character. But that's why I liked it. She was real. Life can be "slow", if we imagine it should always be fast. There are people just like her. Whose life is hum drum like the movie appeared.. I continued watching the movie waiting for a moment.. something that made viewing it worth it. Maybe most won't find that. But I did. The listless lead portrayed in this film I see in my everyday life. Selfish, disconnected, and not in tune with what's most important in life. So caught up in their "busy" lives, self-spun, they forget to just STOP & listen to their mothers! And think.. Hey! Maybe I don't know everything.. Maybe I'M wrong & not everything around me.. I've been hurt, but who am I hurting? These are conclusions many never reach, in life, not just while watching a movie. Yet this movie pointed a headlight on it. I liked that. I didn't feel that 'thing' I was hoping for until.. She realizes the right choice. Perhaps it was her tragedy, perhaps it was watching someone else's pain. Whichever.. It was nice to see her moved to change, and it made the 2nd to last -sofa scene- important. Seeing someone else. Helping someone else. Doing a much needed repair, on her OWN, using the 'tools' her momma taught her. No matter how "strange our parents may seem" can't we harvest some truth from what they teach? It's title had no meaning until the final scenes, for me it accomplished its feat. Out of a chosen mediocre life, ALL of us can snap into place, and make it happy, if we choose to Make The Rules.

Dan P First, this movie is way too short and ends too abruptly. Shouldn't all movies follow the "hour and a half" rule of thumb? Not this movie.Second, the actors hardly seemed engaged. As a matter of fact, Robin Thick, certainly not an actor, upstaged all these "Golden Globe Nominated" professional actors.Third, there are a few things I still don't understand. What was the purpose of including the friend, mother, and repair man? Why did Abby have to be a chef? Where was the real conflict? Although it was fun to watch, why did Jaime Pressly get naked?Honestly, I would rather cut off my fingers like Abby than watch this movie again.

MartinHafer Making the Rules is a film about a chef, Abby (Jaime Pressly), who is seriously injured on the job. And, until her hand had healed, she's unable to go back to work. Instead of working, she stays home and forces herself to relax—which is not easy due to her rather intense personality. Soon, she gets bored and decides to start seeing an old boyfriend—which is a problem since she is already married! It gets worse when she sleeps with this boyfriend and soon finds herself pregnant—and she isn't sure whose child it is. Her motivation to do this is very vague, as her husband seems like a pretty nice guy and he puts up with Abby's snippiness. Her frequent ambivalence towards both of them just baffled me—as she soon tired of the boyfriend. She is a woman who has no idea what she wants in life nor does she have any sort of moral compass. She simply acts on her feelings.I had a SERIOUS problem with the plot of this movie as I watched it. I didn't care for the main character at all and this is an insurmountable hurdle for most films. With some types of movies (such as a western or war film or film about Hitler) you are expected to hate some of the characters, but with a modern slice of life film like this one, this is very tough—and almost impossible when the person is the leading character. To me, Abby came off as occasionally nasty, very self- absorbed, rather tense and unlikable. Add to that a nice dose of adultery, and you have a film that is very hard to like. So, while Abby's very, very pretty outside, she's very ugly within and not a person you can admire or relate to—at least for the average person. This just makes me wonder why they wrote this sort of a film in the first place. Did this seem normal in the least to anyone making the film? The film is a lot like a rom-com with neither the romance nor the comedy nor the likable lady. It didn't help that the film also was rather slow and low energy.So is there anything I liked about the film? Not a whole lot. The acting was generally good but the pacing and story just left me very cold. And, there are simply a lot of wonderful cooking movies out there that I would recommend instead, such as Mostly Martha or The Big Night. Each of these films featured characters who were flawed but ultimately quite likable.