I lent this film to a friend of mine.....

I agree, I can't comprehend it, I LOVE this film, it's actually my favorite.

On the D.V.D. of TMD Anthony Mighella (sure I spelled that wrong) said that it's either one of those films you love or you hate. And I've found that to be quite true, you either love those cute little moments with Jamie and Nina; (I really, truly Madly love you....I really truly, madly, deeply love you etc..) or you despise them. I've shown it to my family, one fell asleep the other walked out and the youngest brother adored it. It's a gem of a film in my opinion and evidently you either love it or you hate it. I cry every time watch it and I'm one of those people who mocks those people in the movie theatre bawling their eyes out...

P.s. I bloody well loathed 'Pearl Harbour'..

I suppose it's like marmite in a way-"you either love it or you hate it"
I absolutely adore this film and had to buy another copy when I broke the first one through over-use!! I cannot watch it just the once, I have to play it over and again, it is beautiful!

I don't know one person (despite whether they liked it or not) who has not cried at the end of this film, when Jamie is stood at the window waved goodbye to nina forever. Even those people that wanted to get up and walk out still cried, rather quietly and insisted they had something in their eye, mind, but they still cried!!

I think everyone should be made to watch this film. It is amazing

P.S. Pearl harbour should be banned!!

haha i don't know. i would've liked it but nina pissed me off. she was so mean to jaime.

Oh, I've loved this movie for years now. As someone said, it's the antithesis of the Hollywood film: regular looking and acting people, real dialogue, messy relationships...

It's just wonderful and I do cry at the end, each time, too. I'd foolishly pick Jamie any day of the week, dead or alive.



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I loved this movie. The quote on the vhs box reads, "the thinking person's Ghost." I loved Juliet Stevenson and Alan Richman in this. I watch it every year without fail. Juliet Stevenson gives such a remarkable performance. Particularly the part where she is at the therapist's office and is just inconsolable in her grief for Jamie. I have often wondered where on earth Juliet Stevenson pulled that from. Hysterical, wiping-snot-from-your-face crying. And the part when she sees Jamie for the first time, she can't even speak she's crying so hard. I brush tears away every time I see this movie and I've seen it more times than I care to recall. Yes, it is about loss but it's also about letting go and moving forward. And the other characters -- her boss, the new boyfriend, the pregnant woman she was helping to learn english, the rodent terminator guy -- I don't know their names but just remarkable performances. A wonderful, wonderful film.

I showed it to my boyfriend yesterday, and although he said he thought it was a very good film, he didn't really see the character of Nina in the same way as me: when she was crying in the counsellors office, and saying she was so angry with Jamie (I always cry in this bit cos i can feel her pain almost) well he was like "that's not love, how can she hate him, she's mental"; then when her sister asked for the cello and Nina refused, saying its all she's got left of him, " 'tis him " (which makes me cry too, see how her mouth goes down at the corners) he said she was being selfish. He said it was obvious that they weren't meant for each other even when jamie was still alive, whereas I think it just deteriorated afetr because they were in different worlds (just like the poem explains at the end). However it made me think, and a new theory I have is that the annoying things Jamie was doing, like moving her furniture around, were just to remind her that they weren't totally perfect before - he did things that annoyed her when he was alive, like any couple. She couldn't move on, because she thought their relationship was the relationship to end all relationships.
Anyway...What do you think? Do you empathise with Nina or not? Were they truly in love? etc etc

Well, I didn't like Pearl Harbour and so I didn't watch it until the end. To much Hollywood-Thingy in my opinion.

TMD I've just got from Ebay (not available her in Austria) and have it seen only once. Well, I didn't cry (the only AR-Film I cry every time is Sense and Sensibility) Maybe I didn't catch everything, because English is not my native language. But this hopping scene with Nina and Mark I just found stupid and my Hubby too.
And that I really love you truly, madly....-scene is also not in my favourite scenes. Both I would have cut out ;o) - but please, ladies, don't hit me now.

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I LOVE this movie! I saw for the first time about two weeks ago maybie and I just fell in love with it. I love Alan Rickman in this part. I think it's his sexiest role. Juliet Stevenson is, of course, very good too. It's almost my favourite movie. And I can't get "The sun ain't gonna shine anymore" song out of my head. It's lucky I have it on my MP3!