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7 things to be wondering *SPOILERS*


So like me and Boney Pete were stuck watching this peestain of a movie on the way back from Cancun and had several queries about several things in this junkfest.

1. Ok, so like the daughter turns all good at the end. Like helps out with the son and loves her mommy again all because her mom is sad that the guy died. But like the kids never even met Paul and the only picture she had was like 20 years old.

2. Boney pointed this one out. Like when they're throwing all the cans out and the garbage can never gets full. You can see that its only about 3 feet high and they throw like 50 cans in there and you can even see the reflection in the metal that its about half full. Diane Lane sure has good aim tho, you cant camera trick that stuff

3. Also when they're throwing stuff out and she pulls out the Vienna Sausage and Paul's like "In a can?" Like he's some rich RICHER. But i've never seen vienna sausage not sold in a can. Dumprunner.

4. How can you fall in love in 4 days. You cant even count the first day cause they were strangers.

5. Why would she take her humpstain of a husband back, like even consider it. I know ppl get back together after unfaithfulness but like he was living with the chick, i would figure that would make Adrienne resent him beyond Thunderdome.

6. Paul and Adrienne (Gere and Lane) had zero chemistry. At least in the Notebook they had crazy chemistry and you wanted them to be together.

7. If the mud slide was that bad that it killed him wouldn't it have taken out the Jeep and his son, its not like he drove away before the house washed out.

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4. How can you fall in love in 4 days. You cant even count the first day cause they were strangers.

Yep, that's pretty amazing, isn't it? But doesn't that always happen in the movies?


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like, um....like, because...like.

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LOL! like, thank you for your post!

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I think Gere and Lane were good in "Unfaithful", so maybe the producers thought they would both sizzle again in this? I think the script didn't allow them to do anything to spark chemistry.

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1. I guess it took seeing her mom in so much pain for her to snap out of her attitude. Also, the picture wasn't 20 years old. He clearly took it in Ecuador and sent it to her.

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1. Through Adrian's (Diane's) letters with Richard Gere at the end she mentions that her daughter has been getting a lot better.
She realized something was wrong with her mom when she saw her crying at the table. She knew at the point she had to put away her teenage problems and help her mom. She also mentions her dad told her about how he wasnt a good husband. THat might have gave the daughter more sympathy towards her mother.

2.They seem to get the cans in the garbage at first. but as they show her drinking more, the cans werent making it into the garbage. she missed a bunch of times. it bounced off and whatnot.

3. cant answer that.

4.It can be possible :)

5. She didn't take her husband back...

6. They had some chemistry. They had similiar problems and they listened to eachother, and at that time in their life, they needed one another.

7. no idea. was kind of confused of how he died.

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Geez, you must be young. okay . . .
1. The daughter stated that she understood things better because her father told her what he did with the other woman and how that hurt her mother, she didn't even know about the other guy yet. Plus she saw her mother changing, doing the things that made her happy, she was accomplsihing things she didn't even know her mother could do, like when she finds the box she made in the garage. Kids notice when their mother's step is lighter and she is happier. The photo of him was in Africa or where ever he was, he was in the jungle holding a third-world child. Obviously you never saw what he looked like 20 years ago because he looked a lot different.

2. 50 cans or 50 drinks by Boney, they through 14 cans out on screen, the can was large enough to come up to Richard's waist, and the cans were not large.

3.Vienna Sausage is sold in deli counters for big people, my deli has it not in the can. Where do you live, Montana?

4. Again, you must be very young, when two people meet at the right time, right place, right circumstance, they can have a more fulfulling love experience than some people married 40 years. Fulfilling enough to sustain them the rest of their lives. One person who beleives in you for six month (including the letters) or a person who forgets you have dreams you've put on hold for 40 years.

5. Did you not see Bill and Hilary Clinton? Ethel and Ted Kennedy? (probably before you time) examples of women taking back slimy husbands is unending, usually for the kids sake, they have forgotten their own dreams, so they return to what is familiar. You guys must have been coming back from your honeymoon. Good Luck, I hope you never know unfulfilled dreams and "tolerable" love.

6. No chemistry?!?! This is their second movie together, and much of their growing relationship took place in the letters. Faced with her husband, Paul was a prince.

7. Did they have a mudslide in Cancun? Did you study geology in college? Mudslides can be as fast as water floods, particularly when a mountain is coming down. He said his son should go, he would get the rest of the stuff and follow.

Really guys, think the criticims through before you go on record.
A movie like this seems slow to those unfaniliar with love, not just theirs, but what other people have gone through and why in their marriage. Why women put up with *beep* men has been a mystery to me, their children, money, medical insurance, gave up their careers for family and are insecure about re-entering the work world. You really are very young. Love is the greatest mystery of time. The danger for you is that you think you got it knocked, then you will be hit harder when reality comes a knocking. It starts small, like you are telling an interesrting story from work or from a friend and your partner is watching TV or reading the newspaper and doesn't hear you and makes no effort to change the situation instead of, "I'm sorry honey I didn't hear you what did say?" and then comments, puts forth an opinion instead of, "Oh?" or "That's funny or that's nice." In other words, they don't give horses butt, that's how it starts.

Good Luck to you both, since you have perfection now, enjoy it.

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