This movie is way too over rated

I know this movie is about how certain people deal with break up, but Favreau ruined it for me. How can you not focus on Favreau!?! He's on screen 95% of the time. Maybe if Favreau wasn't the lead actor, just maybe this movie will be just alright.

I think it's really interesting that people complain about the bitchiness and whininess of Jon Favreau's character in Swingers.. Mainly because Im 100% sure that was Jon's intention in writing/starring in the film. You're not supposed to like him very much. You are expected to take the side and viewpoint of his close friends, trying to get his ass in gear. There is even a scene (which people tend to dismiss as just comical dialogue) in which Trent (Vaughn) is telling Mike that he doesnt want him to be like the guy in the PG-13 movie that everyone is really hoping makes it happen, he says he wants him to be like the guy in the R-rated movie, that you're not sure if you like yet, and you're not sure where he's coming from... which is EXACTLY what the viewer is feeling towards Mike at that point. Quite brilliant.

Plus.. throughout the movie, we are hoping that Mike will come around and stop being such a loser, and be more like Trent and Sue.. and have a great time. But, by the end of the movie, the idea of being a swinger (or player) is seen for what it really is. The final scene in which mike and Trent are at the diner, and Trent thinks he knows some girl across the way who is apparently batting eyes with him, turns out to only be looking at her baby across the table.. and Trent suffers a huge embarassment. The movie ends with a satisfied look on Mike's face.. finally being content with himself, and glad not to be what his friends wanted him to be. It's very well written. If someone told you it was "the greatest movie ever" and you dont agree... dont hang out on its IMDB page.. Goon.

I feel that this movie is far from terrible, this movie tries to immitate life and even if you haven't been in a relationship that has broken up like jon favreau's character most people have friends that have been through relationships like that.

I like how most casual movie watcher's watch this movie and feel that vince vaughn was the best part and then criticize other parts of the movie. For me i like how the opening scene tells you what is going to happen in the movie, i like how humans are always moody and sad at times after break ups but as soon as a new girl walks into your life your pretty much over the old girl, and i also like how in the end when john favreau's character finally figures out ("Hit me like a ton of bricks") some lessen in life about relationships, he immediately gets interrupted by Vince Vaughn's character.

Anyways i think you should watch it again, but i would say that i noticed all this stuff the first time i watched it, maybe this type of movie is not for you. you can watch anchorman or wedding crashers.

You are absoutly right allenchampagne, the character was annoying due to bad acting

This movie is one of my top 5 movies, i love this movie, I watched it everyday, The video game scene is the best, Vince Vaugne kicks A$$, all of these haters can go to hell.


Yeah, he's a professor... of being a dog!! Oooh, faced!!

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one of the finest comedies of the last twenty years:a great screenplay made it..if you aint getting it,your loss

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Don't be a Swinger-Hater. I gave it a nine, not sure why I didn't give it a ten. Although perhaps some scenes are so embarrassing that I had to FF. That's pretty raw. And for Favreau to put himself out there like that so early on in his career speaks volumes. I think he's a genius writer. Rating the movie based solely on its merits? Extremely well cast. I couldn't imagine a better fit for Mikey than Favreau. Vaughn was probably better suited for his role in this movie than any other he has been in. Even a tiny part for Ron Livingston and his sarcasm added volumes to the movie. Killer sound track, with the Big Bad Voodoo Daddies. The whole tie-in with the ridiculousness of the L.A. club scene in the mid-90's was genius. I mean, it could have been a movie about 20-something relationship angst set in the rural mid-west, but Favreau used the environment around him to make a much more interesting movie, and I think much more amusing, as well. I'm not a deep thinker, a movie doesn't have to have a lot of depth for me to enjoy it, but I recognize when one does. This movie has layers of depth, just like onions and ogres, layers. To bash it because the main character is a whiney little biatch, which he is, is stopping at the first layer. Plus, I'm sure Favreau suffered through the whiney character because the big payout (Vegas, baby!) in the end, was that he found a girl who he liked and who voiced the same insecurities that he felt. So, after having been on the brink of caving in to his buddies, and becoming a shallow womanizing biatch, instead of a whining biatch, he finally realized that he was just fine the way he was. And guess what. The whining stopped. Layers, baby!

English, jordan-duncan. I did get the jokes, which are sorta of funny, but nothing memorable.

Like I said before, the main character (who can't act) was on film 99% of the time. Hence with the horrible acting of Jon Favere (Whatever his last name is), the movie is ruined.