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About Adam (2000)
Insulting to women (and sisters!)
I think mar3429's comments hit it right on the nail for me (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5155618/comments). I suppose a lot of women here did not find this insulting, but I sure did! Sex from a womanizer solves all your problems? On top of all the cheating, sisters actually willing to cheat with another sister's fiancé? I can't imagine ever sharing a man with my sister (which I consider as morally bad as incest, a sentiment that few may share but has been expressed in, say, Hamlet), and I certainly would not feel better after I did! I only finished the movie because I thought Adam and/or the sisters might learn a lesson. Or anyone learning a lesson that's not "sleep with Adam and you will be better off." No such luck.
It's not that I think disgusting topics should never be filmed, but I can't believe it was made into a romantic comedy. What's romantic or funny about this? To put my opinion in perspective, however, I also think that movies in which people about to get married but instead meet some other person who is the man/woman of their dreams (e.g. Forces of Nature, Serendipity, etc.) is not romantic--that's called cold feet and unwillingness to commit! If you think you might feel the same way I do, please avoid this movie so as not to feel tortured.
Love Actually (2003)
Was I out of my mind?
"Love Actually" was praised by critics and friends alike, and so I rented it.
Did anybody else in the world felt like they weren't watching a movie, but a horrible soap opera gone wrong? Stretched too thin among story lines, this movie scratches the already skimpy surface of cliché love plots. Shallow, shallow, shallow movie. I'm amazed I even finished it.
I'm not an anti-romantic; some of my favorite films are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Los Amantes del Circulo Polar, and Julio Medem films in general.
This movie makes me feel absolutely insane; am I the only one who thought it was the most horrible movie ever? I've read some negative reviews here, but none seem to tap into the sheer horror of it all.
Serendipity (2001)
Not romantic at all
Review includes spoilers.
What makes the beginning interesting (you know that the two characters are meant to be, but the constant tests and the hyperawareness could pass as cushy movie irony) makes the rest of the movie unbearable. It's sweet that two people can feel magic between them by only spending a few hours with each other. But to spend the rest of the movie searching for the other, convinced that Fate thinks that the right time for them to get together is when they are both days away from marrying someone else--that's just mean.
Because 1) the fiancé and fiancée of Sara and Jon are both dedicated and deeply in love with the two, and 2) the signs and phone numbers that Sara and Jon find years later can be interpreted in many ways (being meant to call someone is different than being meant to be together), Sara and Jon's commitment to find each other seems cowardly. Their search doesn't feel like the ultimate quest for true love; it feels like cold feet.
My Grade: C+