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Some Things That Still Bug Me

posted 19 years ago by kapnkirk
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After 12 years these things still bug me:

Why does the DVD and video release have all these photos of Marisa & Downey on the cover that have absolutely no connection whatsoever to the movie. There's some of them on a bicycle, others of them in a fountain. These scenes aren't even remotely suggested in the picture.

You'd think Downey and Marisa are in the whole film but Downey doesn't make an appearance until 45 MINUTES into the film. A little misleading.

Everyone is lying in this movie. No one tells the truth about their name or their relationship status.

If you were going to hire someone to impersonate Damon Bradley would you hire someone attractive like Billy Zane? I would try to get a guy like Newman from Seinfeld.

Why do the people on the plane stand and applaud when Marisa kisses Downey? Do they know their story or something? And why does the ground crew all applaud? Do they have X-Ray vision and can see them kissing inside the plane?

And now the real reason why I hate this film. It kind of put a damper on Marisa's film career. This film was a box office dud and she only had another starring role in The Perez Family. She was always 2nd down or further in the cast from then on. Like Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock never had a bomb in their career. Marisa never was given a big lead in an A film again (big budget/good director). It's either a supporting role in an "A" film like Alfie or straight to the indies. I mean this film didn't hurt Jewison's or Downey's career one iota. Only Marisa's.

As a consolation for botching Marisa's career, the writer of this, Diane Drake, also wrote What Women Want and Marisa had a better part in that one. Though that film is kind of preposterous too. A guy can only hear woman's thoughts. And of course in all the women thoughts they never criticize another woman. Only men. Oink, oink.

"I'll admit I'm going a little gray, but radiation will do that to you." The Deadly Years

[–] NettaS 19 years ago

"If you were going to hire someone to impersonate Damon Bradley would you hire someone attractive like Billy Zane? I would try to get a guy like Newman from Seinfeld." - I think Peter's idea was that Harry (=Zane) would dump Faith.

"Why do the people on the plane stand and applaud when Marisa kisses Downey? Do they know their story or something? And why does the ground crew all applaud? Do they have X-Ray vision and can see them kissing inside the plane?" - This is called love and joy, it's infectious! (Plus: it happens in a thing called movie.)

Personally, I absolutely love both Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. in this film! They are perfect. But I agree: the cover of the DVD could be changed, Robert doesn't look like himslef.

[–] Isaac5855 19 years ago

Wow, you have a lot of issues with this film and I felt a need to respond to a couple of them. You talked about the fact that everyone in the movie is lying...a lot of the great comedies or comic situations in films are based on mistaken identities or lies told in haste or in lust. Lies create conflict and without conflict you have no story. I do agree with you about the Downey hiring Billy Zane to play Damon...if he was so in love with her, you'd think he wouldn't hire someone who looks like an underwear model to pretend to be her soulmate. On the other hand, I also think it would have been nice if when she met the real Damon Bradley, he had turned out to look like Billy Zane, but was a complete jerk. As for Marisa's career, it never really took off after winning her Oscar...the only decent post-Oscar role she's really had was in IN THE BEDROOM, which earned her another Oscar nomination. I don't know what it is about winning an Oscar, but ignites some careers and brings others to a screeching halt.

[–] mommamia77 19 years ago

Sad to say but I think that she would have put up with just about anything from the real Damon Bradley, she was so entraced with this silly myth that she totally believed in....

Some of the problem might have been that she had an affair with Downey while they were making the film so maybe the director didnt like that and word got around...

after all Marissa knew that he was married and had a small child at home and she ws sleeping with him anyway --- Julia Roberts kind of went through the same thing but then won people back with "My Best Friends Wedding" .... I remember her begging critics to see that film just to prove to them that she was back to her old self ....

Do I think Marisa is a great actress? Yes, but I don't think she is a Meryl Streep. She is never going to be a legend and right now she is at that USE IT OR LOSE IT stage in her career as far as looks and audience appeal.

She needs to follow someone like Terri Hatcher( Not that I like TH, cause I don't) , set herself up as the sexy divorcee in a tv show with alot of buzz and go from there....

Or go the Diane Lane path and do a big sexy thriller -- nothing cry yourself to sleep sad like ITB ....

I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen

[–] Jim-500 18 years ago

"I do agree with you about the Downey hiring Billy Zane to play Damon...if he was so in love with her, you'd think he wouldn't hire someone who looks like an underwear model to pretend to be her soulmate."

But that's the whole point. Downey hires Zane to be Damon Bradley and then tells him to act like a jerk, because he wants to show her that even if Bradley turns out to be incredibly attractive, he can still be a jerk, and that she should be with him.

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[–] Jim-500 18 years ago

"but, a jerk doesnt have to grab on her."

You're right, but the reason Peter gets upset with "Damon" (Zane) is because precisely this. He hired him just to act stupid and jerky, and he spies on them to make sure Zane is carrying out his end of the bargain. But then when Zane starts grabbing her, Peter goes crazy because that was not part of the plan. As Peter pulls "Damon" away, he's yelling at him that he went too far; Zane's response: "I was improvising!"

I see no conflict with a christian school teacher being a little amorous. I'm sure kissing is allowed in the Bible.

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[–] Jim-500 18 years ago

Wow! It's rare that I've heard such a passionate opinion. I like it. Here, you can have a rose, too.

I think the whole point of Faith's actions was to show how silly we can be when we get an idea in our heads, no matter how bizarre, and we will do anything to make it happen. Despite the fact that she was getting married, despite the fact that she had never met Damon Bradley, despite the fact that she had to travel across the ocean to try to find him somewhere in Venice and had no idea of what he looked like, and despite she has met a perfectly nice, handsome guy named Peter who is in love with her and her him... she still wants to find Damon Bradley because she was told 14 years earlier than he was her destiny!

I think we all have at one point or the other gone on somewhat similar creative binges; though we are laughing at Faith, we're really laughing at ourselves.

It was at the point that she meets the false DB (Zane) that she starts to realize that perhaps destiny isn't all that it's cracked up to be. I mean, the look on her face when Zane orders the "House Red"... Then when he gropes her, well, she's starting to get real.

(I mentioned the Bible because you mentioned that she was a nice Christian school teacher.)

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[–] Jim-500 18 years ago

i didn't get the feeling she was overacting. That's just me, of course.

I have found that all women, be they christian school marms, stuffy librarians, or catholic school grads know how to be sexy when the situation is right.

[–] kronos251 16 years ago

lol the poster Jim-500 was arguing with deleted all his comments.

aahh funny how a 3 year old argument can evolve

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