Yes, yes, I do realize it's a movie but I couldn't help but be scared for Meg Ryan's character every time she was behind the wheel. She constantly seemed to be distracted whenever she was on the road (crying about the radio show, fiddling with the map of Seattle), and I kept fearing that she would end up in an accident of some sort.
Anyone else feel the same way?
Not particularly in that movie, but I have noticed even more gratitious distraction in drivers in other movies.
my god its full of stars
Not particularly? There are three scenes: first, she's weeping about the radio show, later, her eyes are entirely covered by the map, and finally she's continuously looking out the right-side window at the guy and his kid in the boat.
my stars, it's full of god
Yes! I was. When she was following Sam & Jonah on their boat in Seattle, she was watching them & not the road. I know that she would check to make sure they are still on path, but geez! Pay attention! It bugs me that they do that in movies. Loses the sense of realism.
shareAlthough I do agree that they shouldn't focus too much on what the person is watching, I do still find it to be realistic because people are retarded behind the wheel all the time. I am surprised there aren't more wrecks out there.
shareI'm more concerned that she is going to walk under a truck or something. She is just a hazard!
shareIt always somewhat irritates me when they take their eyes off the road for like an eternity in movies, and this flick was no exception.
It's a common fly in the ointment. Alas, they can't drive in Hollywood :)
When she's reading the map after she arrives in Seattle is a scene that always annoys me, surely no one is really that reckless and stupid in real life?
Life isn't a rehearsal, so make this one your best performance
I'm more concerned about her moral character and her SANITY. Who the heck takes a plane, leaves her husband behind, and drive to some stranger's house on a trail of a radio show? It's too much. And look at the poor guy, he's sneezing and living a life hanging by a terrible allergy. It was heartless of her to play him like a fool.
shareGranted, wasn't he her fiance (not husband)?
shareWell yes fiance but they were THIS close to being wed. I heard she was very harsh.
shareYou HEARD she was very harsh? Which leads me to guess that you really havent watched the movie yet and are forming an opinion based on what other people are writing.
Perhaps you should view the movie first and then make your own opinions.
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Don't be ridiculous. Of course I've seen this movie. Many times in fact. I'm one of those strange men that really enjoys Nora Ephron movies. They really are fantasies of fictional New Yorkers and Americans in general.
Now that I think about it, I really do not enjoy Anne's character. She is too much of a creep, and totally lets her boyfriend down by dumping him at the very last moment for, basically, someone she doesn't REALLY know or understand. This, in my opinion, is what breaks the movie at the end. The direction of an oddly written script was great, the scenery changes, but in the end it doesn't really work. There's good cheese and overly moldy cheese, and I guess Sleepless is on its way to the garbage bin.
Sorry but this type of thing DOES happen.
I was married, unhappily married and living in separate rooms and I found the love of my life over the internet and got on a plane and met him. We are married now and amazingly happy. Life takes you on crazy journeys!!!
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Like her character, I already had my wedding dress after being engaged for two years, when I broke up with my fiance. It took a lot of courage to admit to herself that even though they were very compatible and that she did love him, it just was not the lifelong relationship she really wanted. She had spent a lot of time trying to convince herself that she really wasn't just "settling" for Walter, even though deep down she knew really was. And like her character, it was only after meeting someone (for me it was at college) who really piqued my interest that I began to realize that I wasn't 100% satisfied with my relationship with my fiance and didn't want to spend the rest of my life wondering "what if". I don't see it as harsh at all. And Walter seemed to understand how she felt.
Life's a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
i think she was drinkin' a little somethin' something'!
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
She drank goblet ½ of wine before hitting the road. It is not only for her actings, Meg Ryan personal usually drinks between a cup and a half ''bitters,coolers or wine'' before going behind the wheel, even when Meg makes long distance journeys above 990 miles
shareshe's not good parking either.
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more worrying than her crazy driving is the constant sweating of sam's child. kid's sweating buckets. 24/7. some sort of bad gland problem?
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
I totally noticed that too! Her face was covered with the map in one scene. So strange.
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yes - me too. It was especially annoying in this movie -- esp the bit with her wrestling with the map *while she was driving* -- are you kidding me?!?!
I know she was supposed to be this daffy, funny heroine, but I did find that stuff plain dangerous and annoying rather than amusing.
And people who TEXT while driving should have their licenses taken away. First strike. No kidding. Crazy dangerous selfish dumbasses.
driving in the 'fast lane'. not passing anyone. yep. she's a menace.
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