I fail to see how someone with a screen name like "kapnkirk" can find anything in a movie unrealistic to the point of loathing it...
"What I hate:
The story itself is preposterous. A girl is going to get married soon and she takes off to look for a name she got off a ouija board 15 years earlier. Of course, Fisher Stevens plants this for 15 years and never tells anyone about it not even her best friend (whom he's married to)?"
The point here is that Faith is a romantic person. Where one can reasonably find logic in the possibility of things in Star Trek coming to be, it's also logical to assume that romantic ppl exist in this world! I'm also an incurable romantic! Probably not to the degree that Faith is in this movie, but that's pretty much what drew me to the movie.
She had it in her mind that this Damon Bradley guy was real. But he wasn't. He was made up by her brother, as you pointed out. However, the point isn't that he threw any old name out there for her to get all excited about. What the movie is trying to say (in light of the subject matter) is that soul mates do exist, and that in most cases, fate will do ANYTHING to bring them together. Faith's brother was just a pawn in this case. I don't think her brother, himself, found his soulmate, however he played a part in unknowingly helping her to find her's.
It was no coincidence that he used that name. This is what he was supposed to do. After that, it was up to Faith to follow the signs. That name stuck out in her mind all those years for a reason. Why didn't she try to find him before? We have no idea if she'd ever actually tried. However, obviously it had meant a lot to her all those years. Enough to the point that she'd leave her own fiancé over the sheer idea of it.
Damon Bradley, imo, was her white rabbit. The white rabbit lead Alice from a dull life into wonderland and an exploration of her fantasies. Well, this was a fantasy come true for Faith and an opportunity she just wasn't willing to let go. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure that while she'd clung to the idea that this Damon Bradley might be real, she also reasoned with herself that she should get on with her life b/c she was never going to meet him one way or another. Somewhere inside her, though, the idea always really mattered to her. That's why it so excited her to go chasing after DB like that.
"Marisa is real accepting of a sister-in-law who's about to cheat on her brother. Even if she hated her brother I don't think she'd just sit back and accept this behavior, do you? Some might say she already did cheat on him just by taking off and then running around with this guy."
One way or the other, I can't find a way to disagree with you on that. Her brother was hard-working. He just had a few issues. Leaving him was one thing, but going out with that other guy? I guess she just needed to feel needed. I
think her husband had been neglecting her in favor of his own life. The poor guy was working a lot and probably felt that he needed some fun of his own. However, he really should have thought about spending more time with his wife, rather than choosing to have fun with his friends. He took things out on her b/c he probably felt that he was putting all his time into making money for the family and that she owed him something. That's the part that really pissed me off, actually. But he really seemed relieved at the end when he got her back. So, maybe things will change for the better btwn those two-- hopefully.
"Dwayne may have been a jerk but didn't he deserve better than to have his fiancee running off to Italy without her telling him?"
We don't really learn much about Dwayne in this story, now, do we? Past the fact that he's her fiancé, what more is said? We see his family, but that's about it. We know his profession. :shrug: I've found myself many a time expressing hypocritical thoughts when it comes to movies and television shows that do this. Like, on certain soaps, it'll just irk me when my favorite character is cheated on. What did they do to deserve that? In contrast, on Frasier, when Niles and Daphne left their significant others for eachother, I cheered! So, the writers always find a way to make you empathize with their lead characters, whatever the case. That's what makes for good story-telling. ;)
"Some minor things I hated:
I hate Marisa's clothes in this. Hardly anything looks good on her. The red dress is OK (not great) and the outfit she wears when she goes out with the fake Damon."
Lots and lots of hate, huh? Hmm. I actually loved her wardrobe in this. And I love seeing her with short hair. I could never pull that off. Not that I'd want to sacrifice my long hair. :shrug:
"Know what else bother me? I hate that the film poster and also the DVD and video has a scene that doesn't appear at all in the film-Marisa in that wedding dress in a fountain with Robert Downey watching her. They also have a picture of her in the same stupid dress riding a bicycle with Downey. None of those pictures are remotely in the film."
That never really bothered me. The fountain pic seemed very ethereal to me...
She really does appear like a Goddess in the fountain and he's there pulling her in his direction and urging her to follow her heart. Though she's smiling, it's not really a smile of complete acceptance. She seems to somehow still be resisting him, and yet she doesn't appear to WANT to pull away.
I think it's beautiful. I haven't seen any of the other covers people have been talking about on this board, though (i.e. "the bike riding pic").
I don't know... All in all, I really just enjoyed the movie. I can't think of anything I really didn't enjoy about it. But understandably not everyone has the same taste. ;) ~DJ
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