![]() I actually bought into his emoting! Good job, Mr. I also applaud the performances of Sandra and Keanu, who is nowhere near as robotic as you may expect. There's a lot of talking (though it never gets as gay and flowery as I feared), and some of you might find the pace slow. Perhaps I'm a sucker for romance movies that aren't scared to throw a little of Nick Drake's Pink Moon down on us, but I like that this is a romance that plays it a bit unconventionally. Throwing those quibbles aside, I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. Email me after you see it and we'll discuss. ![]() I'd love to discuss them and explain my specific issues with them, but doing so would reveal way too much of the story. ![]() You'll enjoy the film much more if you understand that not all loose ends will be tied and you can ignore the plot holes I alluded to. We're expected to just accept it as fantasy and not demand any explanations. The most frustrating thing to me, and I reveal this because it's best you know it upfront, is that we're never told what exactly is causing the time rift between them. It's frustrating because the story could have been much better (and a few plot holes could have been easily eliminated) with a couple of more rewrites. I think most of the confusion exists because the script isn't as tight as it needs to be. Makes sense, right? So the trick is that the 2006 version of Sandra has to figure out where the 2006 version of Keanu is so that they can meet in Keanu's future (AKA Sandra's present). Sandra can tell Keanu where she was in 2004, and Keanu can cross her path, but the 2004 version of Sandra will have no clue who Keanu is. Sandra's character still exists in the 2004 time period that Keanu is communicating from and vice versa. So let me hold your hand and reveal a few facts that you should grasp before seeing this: A) Sandra is corresponding from 2006, B) Keanu is corresponding from 2004, and C) These time periods aren't mutually exclusive. However, after listening to people talk after the movie I realize that some of you may walk away a little confused. Take the time to wrap your brain around it and you shouldn't have a problem following along. Listen up, folks this movie is not that hard to understand. But she has a convenient habit of forgetting what her old boyfriends look like and he can't remember her because, hey, he hasn't met her yet! But he can plant trees outside her apartment which spring up overnight without anyone noticing, and she can send books and scarves back into the past without precipitating the sort of 'butterfly effect' catastrophes with which sci-fi writers have wrestled for years."I don't get it," said one confused old man as he filed out of the theater. Actually, they have met - and talked and kissed. ![]() Sandra and Keanu are in love or would be if they'd met. If you are reading this letter in the past, please save your future by not making this lousy movie.') (Time-travelling note to Sandra: 'Dear Ms Bullock. Sandra and Keanu share the eponymous lake house, although due to a Dr Who-style warp in the time-space continuum, they are separated by a two-year ellipsis, which can only be breached by placing notes in a mailbox which acts as a portal between dimensions. Bullock's latest exercise in on-screen hari-kiri is The Lake House, a time-travelling love story in which she co-stars with Keanu Reeves, who plays a talented but troubled architect. What the hell is it with Sandra Bullock's lousy choice of movies? Despite being a talented and likable screen presence who backed this year's surprise Oscar winner, Crash, Bullock's CV is littered with ghastly tripe like Forces of Nature and Hope Floats, which should rightly have sunk her career. ![]()
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