Ghost of girlfriends past rating9/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() You don’t have to be a soothsayer to predict that the finale will dissolve into a sentimental shambles. ![]() The femmes willingly throw themselves at his feet, never mind his skirt-chasing reputation. All the female characters, with the exception of his childhood sweetheart (Garner, devoid of her customary on-screen sparkle), are at best sketchy and at worst mere fodder for the philanderer. Instead of Christmas, it’s at the country wedding of his brother that the sexaholic shutterbug realizes the error of his womanising ways. ![]() In place of the miserly Scrooge, we have a photographer playboy (McConaughey, clearly past his prime) whose life takes an unexpected turn after visitations from the titular apparitions. Jettisoning the Christmas theme altogether, the bare bones of the story remain intact. Sorry to say, but Ghosts of Girlfriends Past falls disappointingly short of our expectations. Now, Charles Dickens’ classic tale is re-imagined as a chick flick. Besides the fondly remembered 1951 British production, it has also been incarnated as a musical (Scrooge, 1970) and an animated adventure (Christmas Carol-The Movie, 2001). Of course, the lack of quality of the movie itself is not the composer's fault, and he is bound to obey his director, but the inappropriate music is just one more thing that makes Ghosts of Girlfriends Past a waste of time.ġ.01 - Rolfe Kent - Opening Title (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past) (0:46)ġ.02 - Rolfe Kent - Kaiko Shoots Arrow (0:39)ġ.03 - Rolfe Kent - Jenny and Connor Meet and Spar (0:56)ġ.04 - Rolfe Kent - Uncle Wayne's Room (2:09)ġ.05 - Rolfe Kent - Uncle Wayne's Apparition (3:12)ġ.06 - Rolfe Kent - Jenny and Connor Wedding Sex (1:18)ġ.07 - Rolfe Kent - Ghost of Girlfriend Past (1:51)ġ.08 - Rolfe Kent - The Swings, Young Jenny (3:14)ġ.09 - Rolfe Kent - Ignoring Jenny (0:20)ġ.10 - Rolfe Kent - Why Woo When We Can Do? (1:24)ġ.11 - Rolfe Kent - Leaving Before Dawn (2:14)ġ.13 - Rolfe Kent - Of Cork and Cake (1:11)ġ.14 - Rolfe Kent - A Little Honesty (2:19)ġ.15 - Rolfe Kent - Ghost of Girlfriend Present (1:09)ġ.18 - Rolfe Kent - Conjuring the Ghost of Future (2:37)ġ.19 - Rolfe Kent - Panic at the Wrong Wedding (0:36)ġ.20 - Rolfe Kent - Graveside Epiphany (3:26)ġ.21 - Rolfe Kent - Connor Believes, But Too Late (1:30)ġ.22 - Rolfe Kent - Pain Beats Regret (4:03)ġ.23 - Rolfe Kent - Best Man Speech (1:32)ġ.Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer GarnerĪ perennial family favourite, A Christmas Carol has been adapted several times over the past years. Ghosts, in addition to being a broadly played comedy, is also nearly unwatchable junk, its only redeeming element being Michael Douglas' performance in a small part in which he does the best impersonation of Robert Evans since Dustin Hoffman's in Wag the Dog. Trouble is, the stakes aren't really high. Kent would blame his director, Mark Waters, who "wanted drama from this music, not just a romantic-comedy score but a sense that the stakes are high." Kent has accommodated him, providing orchestral music full of feeling with emotional highs and lows. Ghosts is a better score than 17 Again, particularly because it's a more consistent work than its scattershot partner, but, like 17 Again, it is hard to identify as music for a comedy. That's appropriate, since both scores were composed by Rolfe Kent, and he has taken a similar approach to each, in that he has taken his jobs way too seriously. Silva Screen Records released the soundtrack album for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, a romantic comedy in which a contemporary womanizer gets his comeuppance in the manner of Ebenezer Scrooge, on the same day that it issued the soundtrack album for 17 Again, another rom-com with a magical element. ![]()
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