God where do I start? That I missed the Eagles-Cardinals game for this?
Women always want to know why their boyfriends or husbands hate “chick flicks”. Well, as this garbage proves, it’s because most of them are implausible and worst yet, totally predictable. But this movie takes it one step further by showing that Hollywood’s idea of romance is basically dicking over someone else on a whim. Let me explain.
The first half of the movie is actually quite good. John Cusack is good in movies like this, and Jeremy Piven is quite amusing as his sidekick. Eugene Levy is funny as well.
But quickly you realize that you’ve seen it all before: Cusack and Kate Beckinsdale fall in love, even though they are committed to someone else, wouldn’t you know it? They only spend one day together, which is magical, then lose touch for three years. But they never forget that one day. Then, OF COURSE, right before they get married, both have cold feet, and seek each other out.
The ending is what really pisses me off to no end. Beckinsdale dumps here beau, which is unnderstandable, the guy is kind of a jerkoff. But the outrage is John Cusack dumping HIS chick, played by the very beautiful Bridgette Moynihan, for no other good reason that he is obsessed with this other women he spent one day with!!! I mean, if he remembered that the other woman was at the very least a good lay, all right, MAYBE I could write this off as the little head leading on the big head. But not even that!!!
What a JACKASS!
So let me see if I got this right:
This schmuck dumps his sweet beatiful bride who loves him to death on the morning of their wedding, on the 1 in a million chance he will hook up with some bimbo he knows almost nothing about??? AND THAT IS ROMANTIC???
Dudes- theore’s on word for that if you or I did something like that to a woman: ASSHOLE.
But I guess the rules are different for John Cusack.
Oh, okay, of course through amazing powers of telpathy, the Kate Beckinsdale character hooks up with John Cusack at a skating rink they spent some time in three years ago. In real life if you do something stupid, you ruin your life. In Hollywood? You are rewarded by getting to pork another hot actress.
Yeah, THAT’S realistic. :rolleyes: