I wanted to find out about her for marriages and why they all ended, but I could only get through about a quarter of this documentary because J Lo comes off as one weird person who is completely narcissistic and self absorbed. Her best friends tell her not to do this and she still does it, she says "I don't need to do this, but I want to". Part of maturity is no longer having to cave into your carnal desires of self indulgence. Of maturity is thinking about other people ahead of your own self. She showed a book full of love letters From Ben over 20 years. I hope he was not riding her letters when he was married to Garner; I don't think he was. Anyway, I could only get through maybe 20 minutes of this garbage.
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
2024
Action / Documentary
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
2024
Action / Documentary
Plot summary
Follow Jennifer Lopez as she attempts her most daring project yet: independently producing a new album and cinematic original that explore her twenty-year journey to self-love.
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March 02, 2024 at 07:30 AM
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Self absorbed. Narcissistic.
Quite good, but not the way JLo wanted it to be.
This is a bizarre little documentary. There were multiple points where I was shocked something had been left in - like Ben Affleck (rightfully) mocking the nonsensical title (how is it never told if you're telling it now??) to JLo telling the mud guys to use X mud then driving away without telling them WHICH mud. The most painful scene was Affleck saying how much it sucked to see a bunch of strangers passing around a book filled with his most private thoughts.
There's a trend right now of people going to therapy and becoming proficient in that language, but only to the extent that they can fluff themselves up or make others feel bad for them. That's basically all this is.
Here's a summary of JLo's "truth": she was a middle child with an attention-seeking mother and a father who worked nights. She had a relationship that ended because they had different values, then she had some bad relationships after and never got over the guy she almost married. She had 4 marriages before finally marrying guy 1 again, then proceeded to disrespect his values and desires on a global stage.
Girl, everybody had difficult parents. A lot of kids were middle children. Most of us had bad relationships, millions of us had ones who got away -- you truly aren't special, and nobody cares. You know what the rest of us lack? $40,000,000 of money to throw at a vanity project. Sit back down, lady, and treat the people in your life with more care.
For everyone else, this is a fun and short watch about a self obsessed, delusional woman who just yells "my truth" to contemporary dance moves and considers it art. What's not to love/hate about that?
Not jumping the negativity bandwagon, but...
This documentary is a little without substance, the acting is poor, the screenplay is thin, there's no spontaneity, everything sounds fake and not genuine. It can be skipped without giving you major FOMO. It's not a great fun film to watch and there's not much to take away from it either. The title seems made up as well and has little to do with the contents. Perhaps it was chosen to lure women who are into love stories. But it doesn't make justice to the contents, it's a bit fake and nothing in this film sounds very spontaneous to be honest. One great example is the scene where J Lo claims that she used to run up and down the block with a messy hair when she was 16 (for which J Lo was exposed). Her hair was actually pretty neat in a school picture she took at the time. The school was also not exactly a school for not haves, the premises were literally a mansion, and tuition ran at about $12K a year per some estimates and testimonies. Girls were not the excluded low class type, it was an all-girls school and I assume none had to work for a living based on their good looks. The bad tongues have that J Lo leveraged that urban legend portrayed in her Jenny from the Block hit as way to garner more fame and popularity, but the story is far from truth in actuality (she was never humble). Now, should I be bashing this film? I don't know, but maybe the fact that J Lo has so many horror stories about how she treats people who she deems beneath her will make me feel less guilty.