lasttimeisaw Would anyone love a person like Roger Swanson (Scott)? A good-looking New-Yorker, a latter-day Casanova, who can elaborate on the imminent obsolescence of male gender due to the accelerating diminution of its utility, during his working lunch with the presence of his co-workers and their boss Joyce (Rossellini), a woman significantly older than him and whom he has been seeing secretively for quite a long time, he is her "boy".But right in that night, Joyce unilaterally decides to sever their casual affair, Roger doesn't even have his say in it, but at least, the break-up sex is still on the table, so he takes it with a grudge. In a bar, Roger's patronising act to persuade a young girl (Baccani) from putting out to a man whom he claims to a "bad news" to her doesn't pan out like he wants, because ironically, he is also a "bad news" himself and a total stranger, any girl with a good sense of judgement would not let him get what he wants; later he lets loose his frustration by pretentiously derides a much older woman (Emery), who is waiting for her finance alone in the bar, unfortunately sitting next to him.So, the consensus is that we don't like Roger, and no one should, sharp-witted and cerebral, maybe, but he is a callous cad, through and through. However, in the eyes of his nephew, Nick (Eisenberg), who arrives unannounced from Ohio, Roger is a lady's man who proclaims that he can score every night if he wants. Meanwhile, Roger thrills to play his utilitarian role as his wingman once he finds out Nick is a 16-year-old virgin andThe coaching session starts on the sidewalk, by talking, and the gist is that "sex is everywhere", here, the hand-held camera employment from the first-time director Dylan Kidd, a tactic has shown great pragmatism and advantage in its intrusive manner under dialogue-laden, interior- located contexts, causes a somehow fluid and distracting effect al fresco, which trivialises the conversation, however, once the pair plunges into the (retrospectively speaking) three-steps mission to make Nick score that night: hooking-up-ladies-in-the-bar, gatecrashing-a-party and ultimately, the "fail-safe" adventure in a seedy whorehouse, the film becomes unstoppable, accurately captures the nitty-gritty in the metropolitan dating sphere, deceitful, desperate and destructive.A Manichaean strategy to juxtapose an impressionable virgin with a cynical playboy works its way to be beneficial to both parties, Nick, seals his first kiss with an amiable, mature and attractive Sophie (Beals), and sees the vulnerability of a maudlin Donna (Badie), Roger's colleague in the party which Joyce organises and Roger is not invited, and sensibly chooses not to take advantage of her. Roger, however, immersed in his own misery after being cheaply dumped, unexpectedly receives a wake-up call which is just in time for him to rescue Nick from losing his virginity in the most vacuous and crudest way.Scott supremely nails Roger's character as a rapid-fire and eloquent orator edifying his "inconvenient truth" about men and women - some are not truth per se, merely bravado only to sound smart. But Mr. Scott also excavates much deeper under Roger's vain front, he bespeaks a seething soul who has nothing in his grip, who is disheartened by superficiality of the man-woman interrelationship, and the fact that he is constantly under-appreciated for being outspoken about it, yes, that's THE inconvenient truth, if you don't play along with the rule, you are excluded.The film is also Jesse Eisenberg's screen debut, incredibly, his trademark tic of being self- conscious and out-of-the-place has already been honed up to a full blossom. Jennifer Beals and Elizabeth Berkley, make up the pair of the opposite sex as two bar frequenters-cum-friends, Sophie and Andrea, the quartet's breeze-shooting convo is strangely magnetic, both actresses are at the top of their games of being spontaneous and unfeigned, plus Beals beams with warmth in initiating that first kiss!Finishing the movie with a flourish of lacuna, ROGER DODGER resonates pretty well as a snappy and honest take on urban philosophy, a US indie curio with a wider appeal than it seems to have.

sujay-yadav1986 Okay.. So i stumbled upon this movie title accidentally.. since i had watched Jesse Eisenberg in the social network i thought to give it a try.. the concept is surprisingly fresh which other movies have not explored earlier. Even if the subject was explored, it was not shown in this fashion, which the director of this movie has chosen. Though some people find the content of this plot morally disturbing.. if viewed from a neutral view point with out any judgments, you will love it.The only -ve point of the movie is the camera work, it is shaky all through the movie and can be disturbing at times..Jesse Eisenberg as a teenager done his job excellently. same goes to Mr.Campbell Scott. The scene in the park with Elizabeth Berkley and Jennifer Beals comes close to many youngsters heart.. So, grab a popcorn and a bottle of coke, lay back and enjoy folks. You would enjoy even more if u watch it alone or with male friends.. happy viewing..

MBunge Rodger Dodger is a movie about an asshole. I don't mean its main character is an anti-hero. I mean he's an asshole.Rodger (Campbell Scott) is an advertising copywriter, introduced to us through an extended, pseudo-intellectual diatribe to his co-workers and boss over lunch about man's emasculation through the advance of technology and how women eventually won't need men for anything but moving furniture. You see, we're supposed to see Roger as a BAD BOY and be titillated at his POLITICALLY INCORRECT opinions. Then after establishing him as the jerk you secretly wish you could be, we' re supposed to feel sorry for him when we find out he's been sleeping with his boss and she's tossing him aside like a handbag that's gone out of style. That's followed by Rodger trying to work out his self-loathing by provoking women into disliking him.The Rodger we're introduced to could have become a very interesting character. He's a smart guy who thinks he has great insight into other people but has no self knowledge. He won't recognize or consider his own feelings and can't understand how his inner anger and insecurity and fear make him act like a jerk. But then Roger's teenage nephew Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) shows up, and the film becomes about Nick asking Roger's help in getting laid. So, we get a new story about how Nick's honest, heartfelt innocence contrasts with and tries to survive Roger's jaded, hollow, sexist, skanky guidance to hitting on and bedding women.The problem with Rodger Dodger, though, isn't that it's a movie about an asshole. It's that it's never willing to fully commit. It wants Roger to be both smugly charming and socially inadequate. It wants him to talk and act like a womanizing perv, yet still be someone who knows something about what women like and want. It wants him to be a guy who leaves his 16 year old nephew to take advantage of one of Roger's drunk female co-workers, yet also be the guy who wants to save Nick from a first sexual experience he'll always regret.You can tell this is a movie that's conflicted by the very opening credits. Campbell Scott and Jesse Eisenberg are the stars of the film, but it's the actresses who get listed first. It's as though Writer/Director Dylan Kidd is saying "I made a movie about this sexist asshole and imply that some of the terrible things he believes about women are true, but I'm really socially enlightened! See? I gave the actresses top billing!" The film's ending also tries to stand as a rebuke to the creepy, sleazy concepts of manhood that underlie the entire story. But it attempts to do so by contending that there's virtually no practical difference between normal, health male behavior and being a sexist asshole.Rodger Dodger is like someone deliberately set out to make a provocative, controversial film about Man's real agenda toward Woman but after coming up with the perfect character for that story, the filmmaker just pussed out. It's a movie that wants people to think it's shocking without really daring to genuinely shock.

emdoub There are plenty of mini-synopses here, so I'll skip that part, and get directly onto the "viewers beware" section of this review.The acting is good, the sets were competent, and the direction was far better than the script deserved.The titular character, Roger, is intelligent, witty, and remarkably reprehensible - but then, guys who haunt the singles scene are. The scene in which he's coaching his nephew in the fine art of sneaking peeks at women is a perfect example of how this character epitomizes the worst view of men and their sexual urges. "Tie your shoe - there's no shame in falling back on an old standby"? Once he's actually talking with women, one begins to wonder how he's ever gotten through a night without wearing someone's drink - this level of casual, cheerful boorishness is remarkably rare and grating.I'd hoped that this would be a reasonably realistic look at the guys who view seduction as a sport - what it turned out to be was a caricature set up for the sole purpose of making the audience want to knock him down.If 'Fear Factor' and 'Jackass' are your favorite television shows, you may enjoy this. Otherwise, look elsewhere.