Every once in a while, I like to take a breather from the usual crap I watch. Since the tender age of three, I have been known to take more than a partial liking to science fiction, horror, action, and western flicks. Preferably the B-Movie kind. But, of course, there’s only so much one can endure without completely transforming into an unkempt basement dweller who subscribes to “Star Wars Insider” and saves his pennies for the eventual day the extended versions of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy land on Blu-ray in a limited edition collector’s set complete with a life-size elven love doll.

No, sometimes I must remind myself that I am a man. And, being one of those human male critters, I enjoy certain manly things — like watching girly movies. In this case, I sat down and check out the new Deluxe Edition of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days.

I had never seen How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days before. It came out in 2003, a time in which I was so clinically depressed that the last thing I wanted to see was the Hollywood façade of happiness. Recently, my fiancée tried to get me to watch her copy of said movie. I refused — on the grounds that it was a full frame pan-and-scan copy. I am a man, after all. And real men refuse to watch moving pictures in an altered aspect ratio. I settled for a cheap '60s Filipino horror film instead.

So, anyway, back to How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days. In case you also missed seeing the movie, or you have truly no idea how a romantic comedy is unfolded, here’s the spiel. Andie, an ambitious girly-magazine writer (Kate Hudson) in New York, makes a bet with her boss (Bebe Neuwirth) and colleagues (Kathryn Hahn, Annie Parisse) that she can drive a man running away screaming in 10 days. Coincidentally (that’s the keyword in any romantic comedy, by the way), advertising whiz Ben (Matthew McConaughey) makes a bet with his boss (Robert Klein) and colleagues (Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow) that he can make any woman fall madly in love with him within 10 days.

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Luigi Bastardo is the disgruntled alter-ego of Adam Becvar, a thirtysomething lad from Northern California who has watched so many weird movies since the tender age of 3 that a conventional life is out of the question. …

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