I like this movie, and I also like YGM. In some ways, it has a similar theme to YGM, woman falls in love with a man and hates another man, and they are the same person.
shareYes, I thought that too. But similarities in romantic-comedys are pretty much inevitable.
shareI also really like both movies.
While I see the similarities between the two that you mention, it might interest you to know that YGM is actually a remake of "In the Good Old Summertime" (1949), with Judy Garland and Van Johnson, which was itself a remake of the 1940 James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan film, "The Shop Around the Corner".
If you really want to see similarities, check out either of those 2 films ;-)
"The Shop Around the Corner" is especially enjoyable.
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No, "You've Got Mail" is similar to "Pillow Talk." "Pillow Talk" was first. And personally, I can't take and won't watch Meg Ryan, so I wouldn't waste my time on it.
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"Nobody's perfect."
Agreed. I did not like You've got mail which is supposed to be a remake of Shop Around the Corner. YGM does not hold a candle to shop around the corner. I don't watch any of Tom Hanks -Meg Ryan movies, they can't compare to the classics they try to imitate.
shareI don't watch any of Tom Hanks -Meg Ryan movies, they can't compare to the classics they try to imitate.I've got a different take on it: I think, at least they're trying to be classy like those that we love from the Golden age. I'd rather watch Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan make a romantic comedy, than some kind of crude thing made in the modern style with crude humor. So, even if it may not measure up to the ones of the past, I think that any time current day stars try to pay homage to classic film in that way, it's a good thing. So I will always watch them when I can. We must support such types of movies – because it's the closest thing we can get to the Golden age, without watching stuff from the Golden age.
I love Pillow Talk but I fell asleep at the theatre watching You've Got Mail.
share"No, "You've Got Mail" is similar to "Pillow Talk." "Pillow Talk" was first."
No, "You've Got Mail" is similar to "The Shop Around the Corner." "The Shop Around the Corner" was first.
Agreed that YGM is a mediocre remake of Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner, a film which has long been a romcom favorite of mine - along with classics like Roman Holiday and Holiday Inn.
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