Normally, when I write up my Trailer Reviews, I try to look past the movie’s premises and instead examine the style and performances based on the evidence I see in the trailers. However, sometimes it’s difficult to do so, and such is the case with a trailer like Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. I suppose that what rubs me wrong about this trailer-and by extension the movie itself- is the way the protagonist, a committed bachelor played by Matthew McConaughey, is revealed to be a romantic whose heart belongs to one woman. Having known more than a few bachelors, my experience that taught me that stories like this tend to be pure fantasy. Men who sleep with an endless parade of women don’t usually do so because they’re waiting for the right one to emerge- more often than not they do it to assert their masculinity by pursuing women as conquests. Deep down, they like single life, and while they might go after some women harder than others, it’s due less to a romantic longing than a primal hunter-gatherer’s urge to “land the big fish.” Perhaps that’s why the filmmakers had to resort to cribbing the plot structure from Dickens (and enlisting former ladies’ man Michael Douglas to appear as a Robert Evans-styled version of Jacob Marley)- because otherwise, nobody would buy this movie. You know what? I still don’t.