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movie would have been better if...


I think this movie would have been better if...

they spent some time in the beginning showing how steve mistreated women. he belittles them, uses them, objectifies them, speaks negatively about them, etc.

then he gets hit by a bus and dies.(i hated the scene where he was murdered--too graphic).

God is a women and wants to teach him a lesson so sends him back to earth as a women. Steve then goes thru some hard times where men lear at her, call her sweetheart, assume she should get the men coffee, etc.

she eventually learns how women feel and what a jerk she was. she grows as a person emotionally and when she can finally empathize with women, she goes to heaven.

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I agree 100%.

We needed to see why the character was so hated (he appeared to be loved if anything) and there was absolutely no chance for this to sink in even if it had have happened in the screen time given to when he was a man (should have been the entire first act).

I agree with your ending also. The one here is just too weird from the moment he sleeps with his buddy to the finish (the jokes suddenly turn desperate, i.e. the scene in the hospital where she grabs his...).

Overall I'd Switch is a wasted opportunity and not at all what I was expecting (maybe that's the real problem but I still don't think there's much here to like). What I was expecting was what you described perhaps with a little more adventure and a mystery (if they must go down the murder route, why not have Steve as a woman trying to prove who murdered him as a man? All he does is blackmail the woman that did into helping him! If not that, why not have Amanda trying to find out exactly what happened when Steve died? Surely this is a much better plot than merely ringing ex girlfriends to find out which one liked him? Also, we never get a reason as to why nobody liked him! They just call him an *beep* etc!).

The poster with the gun seems to suggest some kind of mystery but I guess it's just a reference to the murder of the main character, which is a real shame.

Potential for a better movie like this methinks.

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well spoken! i agree.

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Plus, I think the way Ellen portrayed Amanda in the beginning gave us a good perspective of Steve without wasting TIME giving him a back story... For example, when Steve's secretary was crying, the way that Amanda took that opportunity to grab the damn woman's boob spoke VOLUMES as to the type of guy Steve was... It established the back story AND gave us the opportunity to watch him/her grow throughout the movie...

You people are the disease, but I've got the cure. ~Morgan on "Chuck"

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His character wasn't that difficult to figure out either. The women's reactions to him/his sister was good enough. Given the 1980s/90s social climate, the storyline wasn't hard to understand.

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